#82 Mythology – Conversations with Richard Roberts, part 5
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We are continuing our series of conversations with an author, a poet, a Tarot scholar and a mythologist Richard Roberts.
In the 1960s, Alan Watts presented Roberts with a letter of introduction to Joseph Campbell, which led to a 20-year mentorship with the famed scholar of mythology – a partnership which included collaborating in seminars and writing books, and which lasted through the remainder of Campbell’s life.
In his college days, Roberts had vowed never to write a novel until he had an idea no writer before him ever had. In a vision, he conceived of a book in which his characters would "go into" other literary classics and interact with the characters, all the while writing in the style of the original authors of those classics. Roberts regards the resulting book, The Wind & The Wizard, as his life’s masterwork.
In this episode, Richard Roberts illuminates some details about Tarot and Numerology, specifically the "Magic 9" Arrangement of the Major Arcana. He also reads a few excerpts from Colin Wilson’s introduction to Richard’s and Joe’s book Tarot Revelations.
#81 Mythology – Conversations with Richard Roberts, part 4
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We are continuing our series of conversations with an author, a poet, a Tarot scholar and a mythologist Richard Roberts.
In the 1960s, Alan Watts presented Roberts with a letter of introduction to Joseph Campbell, which led to a 20-year mentorship with the famed scholar of mythology – a partnership which included collaborating in seminars and writing books, and which lasted through the remainder of Campbell’s life.
In his college days, Roberts had vowed never to write a novel until he had an idea no writer before him ever had. In a vision, he conceived of a book in which his characters would "go into" other literary classics and interact with the characters, all the while writing in the style of the original authors of those classics. Roberts regards the resulting book, The Wind & The Wizard, as his life’s masterwork.
In this episode, Richard Roberts dives into his research of life after death and the works on the subject, consciousness of the Universe, Gnosis, and his collaboration with Joseph Campbell on their book Tarot Revelations.
#80 Mythology – Conversations with Richard Roberts, part 3
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We are continuing our series of conversations with an author, a poet, a Tarot scholar and a mythologist Richard Roberts.
In the 1960s, Alan Watts presented Roberts with a letter of introduction to Joseph Campbell, which led to a 20-year mentorship with the famed scholar of mythology – a partnership which included collaborating in seminars and writing books, and which lasted through the remainder of Campbell’s life.
In his college days, Roberts had vowed never to write a novel until he had an idea no writer before him ever had. In a vision, he conceived of a book in which his characters would "go into" other literary classics and interact with the characters, all the while writing in the style of the original authors of those classics. Roberts regards the resulting book, The Wind & The Wizard, as his life’s masterwork.
In this episode, Richard Roberts introduces the MonoMyth as a path to individuation, tells a story of his own "belly of the whale" experience, and how his publishing company Vernal Equinox Press came to be.
#73 Embodied Mythology Series 07: Owning the Shadow with Paul Rebillot
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing the structure called Owning the Shadow.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- What is the shadow?
- If there is no light, there is no shadow
- "We have met the enemy, and he is us"
- The shadow is "forbidden"
- Illuminating the Shadow
- My way of dealing with shadow is to illuminate
- Shadow is a tricky character – he escapes, moves back and forth
- Once you begin to recognize your shadow, it loses power
- Change the duel to the death (with the shadow) into a lover’s quarrel
- Looking at the Shadow
- Looking at the Shadow has to be approach step-by-step
- Shadow frequently appears in dreams
- People that keep appearing in your life whom you cannot stand
- Jokes – what we laugh at
- Revealing Shadow through Humor
- And things we cannot laugh at and take too seriously
- Anti-defamation (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)
- Distilling the qualities of shadow
- List 25 people that disturb us most in our lives
- Distilling 5 common qualities, drawing them and putting in the bag
- We are dragging the bag of parts of us that we were told is bad
- The Golden Shadow
- Acting out the characters
- Integrating the Shadow
- Creating a mask
- First of your face
- Then add bumps and colors
- Then have a costume party to enact the shadow completely, all out
- Gestalt work to integrate the shadow – dressing a partner into your shadow costume and see your own shadow
- By the end, love begings to happen for the shadow, which is really the answer
- Finally, a medicine wheel, to take the shadow with you on a spiritual level
- Creating a mask
- Examples of shadow integration
- A man recognizing his homosexual shadow
- Turing stories you tell about people to yourself into creative works
- Dealing with political shadow
- Take some action
- Look at the person you dispice and see where you are doing the same thing
- Talk about it to people
- Justice and Vengeance
- If become what you kill
- Parallels in the books and movies
- Harry Potter (book)
- The Matrix (movie)
- V for Vendetta (movie)
- "The Terrorist" (movie)
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#72 Mythology – Conversations with Richard Roberts, part 2
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We are continuing our series of conversations with an author, a poet, a Tarot scholar and a mythologist Richard Roberts.
In the 1960s, Alan Watts presented Roberts with a letter of introduction to Joseph Campbell, which led to a 20-year mentorship with the famed scholar of mythology – a partnership which included collaborating in seminars and writing books, and which lasted through the remainder of Campbell’s life.
In his college days, Roberts had vowed never to write a novel until he had an idea no writer before him ever had. In a vision, he conceived of a book in which his characters would "go into" other literary classics and interact with the characters, all the while writing in the style of the original authors of those classics. Roberts regards the resulting book, The Wind & The Wizard, as his life’s masterwork.
In this episode, Richard Roberts describes his meeting with Colin Wilson and his wife, talks about James Joyce’s Finnigan’s Wake, Sam Keen’s encounter sessions at Esalen, and his work on Tarot with Joseph Campbell.
#71 Mythology – Conversations with Richard Roberts, part 1
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Today, we are starting a series of conversations with an author, a poet, a Tarot scholar and a mythologist Richard Roberts.
In the 1960s, Alan Watts presented Roberts with a letter of introduction to Joseph Campbell, which led to a 20-year mentorship with the famed scholar of mythology – a partnership which included collaborating in seminars and writing books, and which lasted through the remainder of Campbell’s life.
In his college days, Roberts had vowed never to write a novel until he had an idea no writer before him ever had. In a vision, he conceived of a book in which his characters would “go into” other literary classics and interact with the characters, all the while writing in the style of the original authors of those classics. Roberts regards the resulting book, The Wind & The Wizard, as his life’s masterwork.
In this episode, Richard Roberts describes how he came to meet Joseph Campbell and the related part of his life and work at the time.
#45 Embodied Mythology Series 06: The Lover’s Journey with Paul Rebillot, part 2
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this podcast , we discuss with Paul the Lover’s Journey – the structure he has introduced in the previous episode.
#44 Embodied Mythology Series 05: The Lover’s Journey with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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We are continuing our conversations with our friend and teacher Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this segment, Paul introduces us to his next original structure- the Lover’s Journey.
#40 Embodied Mythology Series 04: The Hero’s Journey with Paul Rebillot
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We are continuing our conversations with our dear teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theater – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this segment, Paul describes the cornerstone of his work – the Hero’s Journey.
#34 Embodied Mythology Series 03: The Healing Theatre-2 with Paul Rebillot
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We are continuing our conversations with Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this segment, Paul touches upon some of the most important, most immediate, yet perhaps the deepest and most impactufl aspects of mythological and ritual transformations.
- Knowing your true call, and the many places it can come from
- Inside, outside, from God, and even from… behind
- Levels of resistance (to the true call)
- World around you
- Yourself – the “demon of resistance”
- The Supreme Ordeal
- A Question of Life and Death (what happens if you refuse your call?)
- “All of life is the rehearsal for the next moment”
- Integration of the daemon (the fear) and the hero (the call)
- Peeling off the Masks
- Playing a role and forgetting myself, and how to return to my true self
- Healing – learn to do nothing, and just be present.
- Coming to closure
- Your call – and other people
- Owning the sense of self-responsibility.
- Saving the World – one person at a time
- The “Mini-Schizophrenic episode”
- Original thought that shatters the old forms
- The Loss of the Ritual
- Transformation without structure is madness
Technocrati Tags: Myth, Mythology, Hero's Journey, Paul Rebillot