Purpose
The goal in this class is to remove all goals. Imagine life if you are born and a man appears and hands you a PHD introduces you to your wife and six kids, you speak six languages, you are the head of Microsoft, and you are to stand trial next week for corporate fraud. But you have no memory of the experiences or choices that led you to those outcomes. What good is that? Life is in the experience. Life is a process and then its goals. You spend four years in high school and and two hours in the graduation ceremony. Where is the emphasis to be truly laid. For the only true goal that is guaranteed is death and taxes, and who is rushing to find them.....
But how long did you build the anxiety and fear of passing the finals, SAT, picking a college, and finding a job? My father walked blindly into a state office in Trenton with a masters in Political science and was thriftily sent down the hall to a man who was starting a new research division in taxation. The man became a great mentor and friend to my father. Life is in the process. In this class we will teach you how to remove the fear and desire over attainment which is followed soon by fulfillment and regret when we have made the wrong choices. In this class we will learn the process handed down through the centuries through symbols, comparative mythology and theology, fables, teaching stories, Fairy tales, historical events, and medical science. Large emphasis will be placed on the Grail Cycle that has stretched out from the Nibulgenlied, Parzival, Lord of the Rings, and up to Star Wars. The coming of age story of the fool who follows his instincts and the advice of sages to face the evil within him and overcome it to be able to face his father and enter society as a boon for the community as his true self. This journey that is the emphasis of the tarot and Runes will follow the course laid out by Joseph Campbell which he has called the Hero’ Adventure.
Other issues that will be discussed are the fairy tales that help men and women to deal with an inadequate care giving system that have provided them faulty constructs to develop their self and world view from.. High emphasis will be placed on the borderline parent that is represented as one character in two parts; Fairy Godmother and wicked Step mother.. Other influences will be drawn from stories that free the inner child from the dragon and his cave in the subconscious's. Lastly we will learn how every body learns to give up their dreams for aspirations that lead them back to heal the father and the community.
I am proposing this class as a start to return to the coming of age rituals that provided sufficient psychological breaks from childhood and the protective cover of the mother for youths of today of any age to enter the world of the father and society as their true selves. We have degraded form Cave Births of Europe and the isolation rituals of the Native Americans to a cap and gown, a bishop’s slap, and expensive parties paid for by our ostentatious parents. Neither do we provide the proper logical and intuitive growth of our children to sustain our lives and communities in the pursuit of life,freedom, and happiness; nor the proper psychological break to attain them. This is an attempt to bring us back to the ancient traditions that had provided us this service; that has always shifted and manipulated themselves to grow with our culture.
Intended for
The lawyer who is talented but can not work with the other junior partners, the white collar worker who woke up this morning to ask “ this is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife, this is not my beautiful job..”, The spouse leaving the house to sleep in their bed for the first time alone, the struggling talent that seems to find himself only mustarding up to a McDonalds chef, the x addict who is starting his life over, or the college student who is undeclared in his major. Any one who finds themselves in the grasp of transition looking for the comfort, joy, justification, and reassurance needed to provide the emotional intelligence to aspire. As Indigo in the Princess Bride had said, “If you get separated, return to the beginning.”
Narnia
Lord of The Rings: An adventure for the Yuppie who has lost their way
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Snow on The Sahara
Song by Anggun
