by Dennis Patrick Slattery
When I was invited by Dr. Mary Watkins, director of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Liberation Psychology program, to volunteer to teach a correspondence course with inmates from a California state prison, I responded to her...
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July is the month of the Cenhenen Moon. Since the beginning of memory itself, Saanich Peoples of the Pacific Northwest welcomed the return to the earth of the humpback salmon at this time of year. Saanich spirituality has always emphasized special bonds of affinity between animal and human. Pink salmon were said to live in five groups in a “big house” beneath the ocean.
Water and our dependence on it are also central to the Zoroastrian observance of Ghambar Maidyoshem (ending this July 3) which recalls the creation of the rivers and seas.
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Joseph Campbell Book Club
“Joseph Campbell used storytelling to explain his ideas more than any other tool. Gita Mehta, author of A River Sutra, uses the same tool to craft characters, themes, and, perhaps most importantly, places that reveal the universal that joins those that inhabit an area across generations. I invite you to wade into the waters of the Narmada River with me and explore this collection of stories, where we will discover love, lust, and the mysteries of that which is beyond us.”
John Bucher
Creative Director
Joseph Campbell Foundation
Weekly Quotation
The virtue of heroism must lie, therefore . . . not in the will to reform, but in the courage to affirm, the nature of the universe.
