Category: Mythos

  • Have You Ever Experienced The “Numen”?

    Have You Ever Experienced The “Numen”?

    The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning below. Numinous ( /ˈnjuːmɪnəs/) is a concept derived from the Latin “numen” meaning “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”. numinosum, numinous, numinosity (Wikipedia)…

  • The Golden Ratio and How it Works in Nature

    The Golden Ratio and How it Works in Nature

    Just look around you…on the ground and in trees, in the sky… The Fibonacci Sequence is everywhere! In Plants In Pine cones the spiral pattern of the seed pods tend to develop in steps, upward and in opposite directions, numerically matching the Fibonacci sequence. Sunflower seeds also follow this pattern, radiating outwards from the center…

  • Revisiting Persephone in the Underworld

    Revisiting Persephone in the Underworld

    My Links to the Myth I have for a long while been drawn to the archetype of Persephone, who must descend into the underworld for half the year. My connection is linked to a long-term personal wish and desire for growth and change through psychological means. Personal attraction to an archetype is like an urgent…

  • Births Deaths and Marriages

    Births Deaths and Marriages

    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet [Act 1, Scene 5] Something extraordinary occurs at the occasion of a birth, and also at the time when a loved one is dying. If you are open and ‘tuned in’, you will experience this as something otherworldly and…

  • The Myth of Persephone and Demeter

    The Myth of Persephone and Demeter

    Can this myth assist us in understanding a little better, and in coming to terms with what is happening here?

  • Voices From the Past

    Voices From the Past

    Words in a book… Esther learnt of my existence and found me through words in a family history tome. My older brother had written and published A Little Bit of Irish, while living in a farmhouse in the Isère region not far from the French Alps. Esther and I discovered that we were cousins and…

  • Ancient Stories from Childhood

    Ancient Stories from Childhood

    As a child growing up in a valley where diversity was met with suspicion, I learnt, first-hand, about racism. However, I also saw paradoxes within my cocooned world, and turned to STORY to try to understand the conflicted reality surrounding me like a grey pall after bushfires. One of my favourite uncles, let’s call him…

  • C.G.Jung’s Active Imagination and the Dead

    C.G.Jung’s Active Imagination and the Dead

    It is an unfinished, personal and spiritual account that was, and still is, at odds with the atheistic and scientific direction of society.

  • Blackbird Mythology: Crows and Magpies of Australia

    Blackbird Mythology: Crows and Magpies of Australia

    Many people lump black birds (crows or ravens) and pied ones, such as the Australian magpie, all together, and think of them as “birds of ill omen” or some such. Of course, not everyone dislikes birds that are black. My brother recounts a legend in his family history book, A Little Bit of Irish, connected…

  • Bohemian Rhapsody the Movie

    Bohemian Rhapsody the Movie

    See and hear the original Queen “Live Aid” performance on YouTube (below). I love this music, so eclectic and passionate! I don’t pretend to be a rock music expert, but I do remember Live Aid and the utopian wish we all had, at the time, to relieve African poverty forever. Dying children shown on television…