#146 Embodied Mythology Series 15: The Holy Grail with Paul Rebillot, part 3
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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 continues the discussion about the myth of the Holy Grail.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Levels of Spiritual Quest
- Which myth is right for me?
- What is a myth?
- Multiple cultures
- The American myths
#145 Embodied Mythology Series 14: The Holy Grail 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 episode, Paul describes the structure based on the myth of the Holy Grail.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Structure
- "What’s troubling you, my uncle?"
- Instead of giving an answer, ask a question
- Instead of solving each other’s problems, listen and make it possible for them to solve it
- Giving power to the person, rather than power over them
- Staying present
- Accepting the Symbolic
#144 Embodied Mythology Series 13: The Holy Grail with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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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 tells the essential parts of the myth of the Holy Grail.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Holy Grail – Parsival and his Mother
- King Arthur
- The Grail Castle
- The Great Knight
- Healing of the Wound
- The Sacred Feminine
#143 Embodied Mythology Series 12: Rituals of Transformation 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 episode, Paul explains the structure and design of Rites of Passage, or the Rituals of Transformation.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- How do you know it’s time for the rite of passage
- Putting "blood" (life) back into the ritual
- Lack of rituals in the modern society
- There are no rituals for crossing age thresholds – people want to stay young and don’t appreciate their own age
- Making rites of passages in everyday life
#142 Embodied Mythology Series 11: Rituals of Transformation with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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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 explains the structure and design of Rites of Passage, or the Rituals of Transformation.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Rites of Passage – Example
- Ways of leaving the "nest"
- Suffering is being stuck at a passage
- Structure for creating rites of passages
- Ritual is dying to the old and being born into the new
- Boy becoming a man – one of the aboriginal rituals
- How did you find out that there is no Santa Clause?
- Various rites of passages
- How do we construct these rituals?
- Saying good-bye to the past
- Symbolic act of ending the past
- Going into the no-man’s-land
- Crossing into the other side, being who they are. Trying something new behavior in the new place.
- Group gesture to complete the ritual
#141 Embodied Mythology Series 10: Personal Myths 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 episode, Paul is describing his approach to designing new structures from Personal Myths.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Identifying with every character in your myth
- Variety of Shadows
- Moving between roles
- A story from Hero’s Journey workshop
- Example – Baba Yaga story
- Feedback about the structure
- Common patterns in the structures
#140 Embodied Mythology Series 09: Personal Myths with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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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 his approach to designing new structures from Personal Myths.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Personal Myths
- How to create your own structure
- Trip to Epidavros (Greece)
- The sacred path of healing
- Illness means being out of harmony
- Healing process:
- Going to the temple, dream, meet the priest, get diagnosed
- Take care of the body
- Go to theatre – to experience catharsis, take care of the soul
- Go to a temple and re-integrate the God inside themselves
- The workshop structure
- The body is the temple of the soul. Fool’s dance – meditation on the myth in the body.
- Dramatizing the myth – playing the roles, with interaction
- An initiation
- The Minotaur story
- An initiation
- Brings it to here and now.
- Create your own structure
#139 Embodied Mythology Series 08: Death & Resurrection 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 episode, Paul is describing the structure called Death & Resurrection.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Awakening
- Bathing with perfumed water, to awaken the senses
- Sensorium – different kinds of smells, senses, getting loose
- What actually dies is a role
- "Growth stops when we avoid pain" (Fritz Perls)
- Create your ideal parent to heal the part of you that was retarded (not developed)
- Reparenting process
- Story about a school teacher of problem kids
- Reincarnation Game
- What happens to people after the workshop
- A Sci-Fi Story
#138 Embodied Mythology Series 08: Death & Resurrection with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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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 Death & Resurrection.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- What does Death & Resurrection mean?
- A catapillar turns into a butterfly
- Christ
- Feeling of body falling apart to come back together again (martial arts)
- Total loss of control. When you confront death, there is nothing you can do except experience it
- Why would you want to experience Death & Resurrection?
- First, the willingness to give everything up
- Idea of Phoenix – letting go of everything
- Confront your death, and resurrection will take care of itself
- Stanislavsky approach
- Best actors put themselves into what they are doing
- "As if true" technique
- As if in four days I’m going to die
- What do you need to do to go into the death as an accomplishment
- The three centers – body
- Body – connecting to the physical world
- Meditation in nature – "Death is certain. It comes without warning. This body will be a corpse."
- "The Body Mass" – in the evening, touch every part of your body and say good buy to all the parts.
- Next morning, make up wills and give out their posessions.
- Relationships – saying good-bye to everyone
- Last day of life
- Give a gift to yourself
- Write your own funeral
- The 7 most important things in their life to say good-bye to, and 3 things they are glad to get rid of. Bring 10 symbols for those.
- Burning everything and watching the smoke rise to the next life
- Every day people have to be more and more silent – essential silence, only say what’s needed
- The last supper – lifting the silence
- The Last Breath process, the moment of Death. Taking turns.
#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.