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Deepening Our Gaze to What the Underworld Offers - Martin Shaw - C0480


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Martin Shaw, Ph.D. is a storyteller and mythologist. He’s a wilderness rites-of-passage guide and is internationally regarded as one of the most exciting proponents of the mythic imagination. He tells “prophetic stories” that speak deeply to the challenges we face today, in the world and in our personal lives. He has devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University, is a visiting fellow at Schumacher College, and the Director of the Westcountry School of Myth, a Learning community in Dartmoor in the far west of the United Kingdom. His books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness, (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016), The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come, (Cista Mystica Press 2019).
Interview Date: 6/4/2019       Tags: MP3, Martin Shaw, fairytales, folk tales, monsters, Beowulf, Lindworm, feral, Siberian tale, underworld, naïveté, Baba Yaga, decent, underworld, Robert Bly, efficient initiation rites, grief, innocence, experience, rite of passage, self esteem,  Mythology, Philosophy, Personal Transformation
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