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Creative MagicAuthor: Lucy Pearce
Join prolific author and artist Lucy H. Pearce and her creative guests - writers, artists, creatrixes - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflect on what, how and why we create, what drives us...and what stops us in our tracks. We share honestly how we find the time and energy to make magic in the midst of life's challenges and why we keep on saying yes to our creativity. Lucy is known for giving real and raw interviews, and now she shares this form of deep dive conversation with many of her favourite creative people. The first season of Creative Magic is the Wild Initiations series, featuring her immensely popular intimate conversation series recorded to celebrate the launch of her 12th book Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods... She will also be joined by some new guests diving into the themes of wild nature, symbols, initiation and creative magic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Arts, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Sushmita Mukherjee - The Dark Woods of the Psyche
Episode 5
Monday, 22 April, 2024
Sign up to my WORD+mage ecourse or the Discovering Your Inner Symbols WORD+image MasterclassI am joined by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, writer, artist, educator and spiritual companion in the interspiritual tradition. She is an ordained interfaith minister as well as an Associate Professor in a large medical college in New York City. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, and a spirituality imbued with magic and wonder.· Our conversation started in the dark woods of the psyche and her quote I used in my new book, Crow Moon.· We talked about darkness - the problems with how we talk about darkness within Western thought and the binary…and how we can move beyond this.· We discuss Individuation – a mainstay of Jungian thought – why it’s problematic and why it’s necessary.· Learning to live beyond our rational minds. We discover many shared guide to this including Mary Oliver, Jung, Krista Tippet and John O’Donohue.· Find out about the via creativa and how she now teaches about the shadow.· She speaks about Hospicing Modernity – an approach to the question: What comes next for our culture?· How she discovered the beauty of our biology.· Nature and privilege, and finding the wild in the heart of urban spaces.More About Sushmita:Her psyche thrives at the interface of image, imagination and creative innovation. Sushmita’s spiritual work draws on Eastern and Western myths, Earth-based traditions, Taoism, Sufism, and Perennial Philosophy. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman. Some of her interests include myths, dreams, poetry and art, including Jungian-influenced Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.Sushmita's website: on-seeing.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
