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Australian Aboriginal Dreaming: How It Works and What it Has to Teach Us
First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall 1838 SW Jefferson Street, PortlandYou may be familiar with the concept of the Australian Aboriginal Dreaming or creation stories through Bruce Chatwin’s novel The Song Lines, or through Australian Aboriginal art works or popular films and novels which convey something of the mystery and exoticism of Aboriginal Culture. This illustrated lecture will help introduce people who live on the ... Read more
Rites of the Celtic Cult of Sacred Waters
First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room 1838 SW Jefferson Street, PortlandThe Celts believed that Otherworld powers are available to us when we journey to healing wellsprings and carry out the ancient rituals that attune us to the source. These rites are analogous to the therapeutic journey of Jungian psychanalysis. We will consider the eightfold steps and how they may apply to the healing of our ... Read more
Celtic Otherworld Journeys
First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall 1838 SW Jefferson Street, PortlandThe ancient Irish, Welsh, and Scots storytellers left us a rich collection of myths dealing with the relations between the interpenetrating realms of nature and the supernatural. One category of their art deals with the journeys that adventurers, kings, and pilgrims make into the timeless Otherworld of the Land of Promise, what we would call ... Read more
