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Dracula, Frankenstein and the Holy Grail

March 14, 1997 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST

lecture:

This presentation explores the mythic import of the tales of Dracula and Frankenstein as premonitions of the confrontation of the soul with fear facing us in the circumstances in which we now live. The popularity of these stories, reappearing in contemporary writings and films, indicates a need of the soul to produce images of fear, taking on the one hand, the ecstatic promise of dissolving into horrible immortality, and on the other hand, the form of technical achievement which produces disastrous results. Soul needs these images to picture the impending possibilities of its own demise. We will look to the legends and stories of the Holy Grail, particularly to the images surrounding the future of Klingsor, dark magician of the Castle of Wonders, to delve further into archetypal aspects of terror. In a world now pervaded by fear of every sort, our guiding question will be-What can free the soul from fear?

Related Workshop: Freeing the Soul From Fear

Robert Sardello, Ph.D., is co-director of the School of Spiritual Psychology (based in Greensboro, NC) which offers courses and workshops concerning how to be present to soul life and open to the workings of the spiritual worlds. Along with Cheryl Sanders, these courses are now held in cities here and in Canada, England and Australia. Robert is the author of Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul (now re-issued as Love and The World: Foundations of Spiritual Psychology) and Freeing the Soul from Fear. Doing the Good: The Soul’s Path of Virtue is in press. Robert also teaches at the Chalice of Repose Project in Missoula, MT and at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. The School of Spiritual Psychology web site:http://www.spiritualschool.org/

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Date:
March 14, 1997
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST
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Venue

First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall
1838 SW Jefferson Street
Portland, OR 97201 United States
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