COURSE 4: World Myths, Symbols and Oracles

 

This field is both cultural and archetypal. Themes of Creation, Polarity, Death and Rebirth, the Hero/Heroine’s Journey, The King of the Four Quarters are part of the collective unconscious of humanity. In this field, students will be encouraged to respond to and discover archetypes that are part of the creative reservoir of the human unconscious for new culture-making. Oracles are direct lines to source, myths tell stories to assist the wide-spread use of truths, and symbols are icons that are doorways to spiritual domains. Literature beyond the old cultures is an extension of this.

The gods and goddesses of the so-called ‘past,’ are forces that act through humans, but are not to possess humans. Our aim is to enable humans to be free agents, which means taking responsibility for who we are in relation to Prime Source, Nature and each other.

The study of different cultures enables the participant to discover major themes and characteristics that are contributing factors to a global culture. It is not uniformity that is wanted in a global culture, although technology, as a means, is an enhancing feature of that. Cultures have values, patterns, song, myths that are gems for a greater wholeness. Therefore, working with people of various races and cultures is beneficial for the whole, if all wish for wholeness.

The study of different cultural themes enables the participant to understand how source and Oneness become the effect of the many, and how, as human agents, we can undergo deaths and rebirths and the Hero/Heroine’s journey to face shadows and emerge with greater love.