Mytholudens

A nine-month laboratory on theory and practice in Mythology through the Archetypal Lens is Mitoludens prime activity. The lab offers monthly weekend (Saturday and Sunday from 9a.m. to 5p.m.) immersions through the images and stories of the main archetypes from ancient Greek culture. A group on Myths started on April/2009 with a open class on March 28 and 29th, 2009 at the Brasilia Botanic Garden. New courses are being organized to be offered in different cities besides Brasilia in 2010. Be in touch to receive the news!

We begin with preliminary principles about the nature of the psyche and the multidimensional images that link us with the goddesses and gods who inhabit the roots of our own culture. Along this journey we use knowledge of archetypal psychology developed by James Hillman and other post-Jungian psychologists who have addressed issues of personal transformation through the soul/psyche deep listening in its many mythical levels also inspired by the works of Carl G. Jung.

The immersion in the multiple archetype dimensions of the Greek mythology is fashioned in three other modules/stages bringing also practice. It is intense, integrated and playful lived with mythic eyes through the cinema, dreams, theatre and events in our daily art.

In the first module, special emphasis is given to Gaia, Mnemosyne, Demeter, Persephone, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hermes, Hera, Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Ares, Arthemis, Apollo, Dionysus, Pan and Aesclepios. These gods and goddesses of the western imagination are seen as complex expressions of human nature which correspond to the actual psychological themes. The focus in many and different gods and goddesses, and not in only one divinity, gives us various ways of looking the phenomenon of human psyche. This module is very much inspired in the teachings of Ginette Paris, Christine Downing, David Miller and James Hillman. Total of hours: 48

The second module is dedicated to the Greek archetypes in cinema. Here we look at specific scenes in previously selected movies following the archetypal method. We watch classic and contemporary movies that display important aspects of the collective unconscious as if the director eyes become, through the movie’s pause, music, implicit wording, images and dialogues, a language of mythic themes and archetypal patterns. In a good movie we become engaged and we are transported to the reign of archetypes. Total of hours: 24

The third module is devoted to dreams. Inspired in the work of Stephen Aizenstat called Dream Tending and the teachings of Dawn George we give voice to the dream images and let them give form and body to the various expressions of our unconscious life. We start from the concept that the images are alive and are in a continuum process of soul engagement. Part of the laboratory is dedicated to dream theory and part to the practice of free association, amplification, animation and personification. A lab to unveil the archetypes in the dreams is offered -- we make masks and dance them! Total of hours: 24

Finally, we conclude our journey with art and it partnership with Panthéâtre. We give voice to the body and body to the voice unveiling our own myths. We invite you to this mythic immersion where our own mythopoetic expression reveals deep archetype truths. Total of hours: 24

To participate at the levels 2, 3 and 4 it is necessary to have taken the level 1. Total: 120 hours

Welcome!

Luciana Aires Mesquita.
MA in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis on Depth Psychology,

Pacifica Graduate Institute, CA.

We would consider Artemis, Persephone, Athena, Aphrodite, for instance, as more adequate psychological backgrounds to the complexity of human nature than the unified image of Maria, and the diversity expressed by Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus and Hercules, for instance, to correspond better with psychological actualities that any single idea of self, or single figure of Eros, or of Jesus and Yahweh. Not that Maria, Eros, Jesus and Yahweh are false – far, far from it; only that they, like Zeus too, tend to present themselves in descriptions which dominate through unification, thus losing the values shaped by each of the other gods and goddesses.

James Hillman.

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PRIVATE SESSIONS ON PERSONAL MYTHIC JOURNEY:

Make arrangements with Luciana Mesquita.

Tel.: 55-61-9152 6620 mitos@mitoludens.com.br