Eleusis & the Mystery of the Divine Child with Denise Horton

Sunday, March 24 from 2 - 4 pm

(Program will be recorded and sent to registrants)

A collision between mythology and Jungian psychology occurred in 1949, when the collaboration between the acerbic Hungarian philosopher and mythologist, Karoly Kerenyi, and the reserved, but adventurous depth psychologist, C.G. Jung, created a brief, but pithy “novella”, (Bollingen Series XXII).Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis

Jung’s travels, at that time and earlier, to New Mexico, Africa, and Peru, had brought him “face to face” with the larger context -- shamanic, cultural, anthropological, archaeological, astrological -- for his experiences. Kerenyi’s longtime interest in the "primal myth” of the classical Greek period, Demeter and Persephone, along with the characterization of the Eleusinian Mysteries as the foremost historical proto “Jungian” passage rite of the ancient Greek world, led to a fruitful collaboration. 

In this course,…