Barry Spector

 

Author Barry Spector muses about how America became a culture of exile, and the ever-greater need for mythology, archetypal thinking, ritual and grieving in the face of what Barry calls "The Myth of American Innocence." 

  

Barry's book "Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth Of American Innocence" is the featured book for the Depth Psychology Alliance free online book club in the month of November.

 

Barry writes about American history and politics from the perspectives of myth, indigenous traditions and archetypal psychology. In addition to Madness At The Gates Of The City, Barry maintains an active blog that takes an archetypal look at current events and culture and which, along with his essays, can be found at www.madnessatthegates.com.  

 

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"Community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed."  ~Reverend Mark Morrison Reed, Author

When political, economic 

and religious leaders

no longer offer any solutions to the massive crises that confront us, it's time to re-imagine who we are as individuals and as a nation. Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence shows how America regularly re-enacts old patterns that cause us to subvert our goals, miss the deeper meaning in events and, perhaps, fail to prevent our headlong slide into cultural collapse. 

 

But by looking at our history, politics and popular culture through the lenses of Greek mythology, indigenous wisdom and archetypal psychology, Barry Spector discovers new hope in very old ways of thinking. The foreword by Robert A. Johnson, author of He, She, We, Inner Work, and Owning Your Own Shadow, Ecstasy, and Transformation.

 

Barry and his wife Maya conduct an annual Day of the Dead grief ritual that will take place on November 3rd, 2012, near Berkeley, CA.

 

Learn more at www.barryandmayaspector.com 

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Bob Walter

In this talk Bob will explore the relationship between

mythology and health: how the visceral beliefs-the myths-of both patient and physician interact either to positively impact or impede, not only their interpersonal relationship, but more importantly, the healing process itself.

 

We will investigate some of the biological bases for such mythic understandings, and scrutinize the ways in which technological development, globalization, and the ubiquity of mass media are continually redefining and reshaping our understanding of what it means to be "healthy."

 

Finally, we will diagnose, so to say, the well-being of the body politic by examining how our contemporary mythos-whether consciously articulated or unacknowledged-fails to inform our lives with the art of living by its insistent denial of the fact of death and the inevitability of our dying.

 

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The Ritual of the Presidential Debates: Blog by Barry Spector