More Independent Study Soulcraft action
I'm so excited (and a bit terrified) about this summer independent study that I'm spending heaps of time on designing it, rather than doing what I should be doing. hehe
I keep running into different books, and I'm afraid I will just obsess over Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue....there's soooo much in there, so much good stuff to apply to my praxis theory of cultural transformation. Which is fortuitous, because, like most of the good stuff I write, it is "writing itself."
I decided to take a vow of silence for a week, as part of my preparation for the workshop. I really wish I could be TOTALLY silent, but I will have to break the vow, to communicate at work. I'll let everyone there know that I'm doing this, though, and to please use e-mail....verbal by emergency only. I've also resolved to abstain from writing, but only for three days, because I think that is the part that'll kill me. ;-)
I've started a journal for the workshop, recording dreams; contemplating and answering questions such as, "What do I seek? Am I prepared to surrender to the deepest strivings of soul and to what the world wants of me?"; paying attention to the edge of waking consciousness (i.e., subtle thoughts, feelings, images, perceptions, memories, doubts, daydreams) and recording what I find there; using both Soulcraft and Stephen Buhner's heart-perception techniques before the workshop, and writing about my experiences.
I have to say, when I recently did the exercise on using the heart to perceive nature, holy shit, I started to get some sort of somatic experience-memory of childhood....man, that was an absolute trip. The exact same feelings that I had about grass, for example, as a kid....it was as fresh and new and raw (un-abstracted) as if I had seen it for the very first time; my mind just soaked in all kinds of visual information that the reticular formation (in the hindbrain) usually filters right out, and I was transported into the infinite microcosms of a child's world.
I'm looking forward to getting into more of these practices, both from a personal subjective and an academic subjective perspective....
I keep running into different books, and I'm afraid I will just obsess over Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue....there's soooo much in there, so much good stuff to apply to my praxis theory of cultural transformation. Which is fortuitous, because, like most of the good stuff I write, it is "writing itself."
I decided to take a vow of silence for a week, as part of my preparation for the workshop. I really wish I could be TOTALLY silent, but I will have to break the vow, to communicate at work. I'll let everyone there know that I'm doing this, though, and to please use e-mail....verbal by emergency only. I've also resolved to abstain from writing, but only for three days, because I think that is the part that'll kill me. ;-)
I've started a journal for the workshop, recording dreams; contemplating and answering questions such as, "What do I seek? Am I prepared to surrender to the deepest strivings of soul and to what the world wants of me?"; paying attention to the edge of waking consciousness (i.e., subtle thoughts, feelings, images, perceptions, memories, doubts, daydreams) and recording what I find there; using both Soulcraft and Stephen Buhner's heart-perception techniques before the workshop, and writing about my experiences.
I have to say, when I recently did the exercise on using the heart to perceive nature, holy shit, I started to get some sort of somatic experience-memory of childhood....man, that was an absolute trip. The exact same feelings that I had about grass, for example, as a kid....it was as fresh and new and raw (un-abstracted) as if I had seen it for the very first time; my mind just soaked in all kinds of visual information that the reticular formation (in the hindbrain) usually filters right out, and I was transported into the infinite microcosms of a child's world.
I'm looking forward to getting into more of these practices, both from a personal subjective and an academic subjective perspective....