Seeing through the Lens of Metaphor – Exploring Mythology, Metaphor and Archetypal Dreamwork

Taught by Susan Marie Scavo, Director of North of Eden Press, Co-Editor of Deluge and Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist/Teacher and Karla VanVliet, Co-Editor of Deluge and Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist/Teacher

Someone once asked, “If the dreams want us to learn something about ourselves, why not just have someone say it? Why have stories and images in a dream?”

We learn through story rather than being told because story and metaphor allow us to have an experience, to feel into rather than just understand. We may believe that there is love for us but it is another thing entirely to actual experience that love coming from an Archetype for us in a dream.

Joseph Campbell said that dreams are private myths and myths are public dreams. In this course, we will explore how dreams challenge both our personal mythology as well as the “public dream” of Western mythology by offering the gift of seeing story from the perspective of the Archetypal Reality. The Archetypal Reality turns each known story upside down, showing how our biased way of looking at story skews what we know about ourselves and about the world.

We will discuss such myths as Persephone and Hades, Theseus and the Minotaur, Cupid and Psyche, and the Garden of Eden, as well as our own personal stories of who we are. We will also consider the emerging mythology that is arising from the collective dreams now - stories such as The Big Lie, the Gyroscopic Reality, The Valkyrie.

Metaphor is the key that opens the door to story, teaching us experientially and gradually, through knowing rather than through just our intellects. As we consider each story, we will learn to use the key of metaphor to open and explore the story in a new way. To move from what we know, the old story, the story of the world, into the truth of the new story, the story from the perspective of the Archetypal Realm.

Textbooks: The Deep Well Tapes Series with emphasis on The Pomegranate and Sex, Trauma and Conjunctio.

When: September- December, 2009

Dates:

Seven Classes with a half day intensive

- Tuesday, September 1, 2009 4:30-7:00 pm est
- Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:30-7:00 pm est
- Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:30-7:00 pm est
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:30-7:00 pm est
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:30-7:00 pm est
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009 4:30-7:00 pm est
- Tuesday, December 8, 2009 4:30-7:00 pm est

- A Half Day Intensive - date to be determined

Credits: 3

For more information or to register:

Annie Wattles
802.229.4786 office
802.272.9009 cell
email: annie@northofeden.com