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ANTERO ALLI, founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch, has written, directed, and performed in numerous experimental theatre productions between 1975 and 2005. His paratheatre work was initiated by David Rosenbloom in 1977 and documented in Alli's book, Towards an Archeology of the Soul (Vertical Pool, 2003), in four videos, and by Nicoletta Isar, Professor at the Institute of Art History, Copenhagen University. Alli's personal paratheatre experience inspired the creation of a series of feature-length art films including "The Greater Circulation" (2005; 93 min) a critically acclaimed cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend", and "The Invisible Forest" (2008; 111 min) a docufiction exploring the radical ideas of French Surrealist playwright, Antonin Artaud. Antero conducts paratheatre labs each year in Berkeley California where he resides. More: www.paratheatrical.com
ANNE BARING (1931) educated in England, France and America. MA Oxon in Modern History, Oxford University. She is a Jungian Analyst, author and co-author of 7 books including The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image; The Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine; Soul Power: An Agenda for a Conscious Humanity. Her most recent book (2013) The Dream of the Cosmos: a Quest for the Soul was awarded the Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize for 2013. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in the spiritual, mythological, shamanic and artistic traditions of different cultures. Her website is devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice for humanity. www.annebaring.com
SYBIL FULLER was born in Zambia and spent many years in South Africa. She was educated in Zambia, South Africa, Ireland, Switzerland and the UK. She was a nun in the Roman Catholic Church in Africa for many years where she supported her religious community in contemplative practice. Her professional background includes art, nursing (especially palliative care), midwifery, classical spirituality and holistic spiritual guidance. The title of her MA thesis is Biological Embodied Experience and Women's Spiritual Journey. Sybil trained as a Jungian analyst in Zurich, Switzerland, where her focus was on the interface between psyche and soma and the emergence of the feminine, with a focus on the divine feminine. She studied with BodySoul Europe, an approach that developed out of Marian Woodman's work as a Jungian analyst. She holds a certificate in trauma therapy from Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Centre and is currently training in Somatic Experiencing in Ireland. As well as having a private practice in York, UK, she is currently a council member of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists in London.
ROBERT W. GORDON, M.A. Theology, Boston University. Extended studies at C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich; Graduate Theological Institute, Berkeley, California; Clinical Pastoral Education, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; United Way of America, Alexandria, Virginia. Currently, he is the Executive Director of United Way in Augusta, Maine where he is responsible for fund-raising and public advocacy for a collaboration of 39 local organizations devoted to the delivery of human service programs for children, families and individuals. His work includes the writing and administration of numerous grants to sustain these services. He came to his present position as Executive Director for United Way following clinical and administrative responsibilities in several substance abuse and mental health treatment programs. He is interested in the way daily life, "the world as it is," can be informed by the understanding of the depth-psychological approach developed by Carl Gustav Jung. For more information: www.uwkv.org
SLOBODAN DAN PAICH native of former Yugoslavia, born after the Second World War, lived in England from 1967 to 1985. Slobodan taught Art Practice, History of Art and Ideas and Architectural Design Studio at various institutions in London. Between 1986 to1992, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley, School of Architecture. Along with a number of scholars, artists, and community leaders, he founded the Artship Foundation in 1992, and has been its Executive Director ever since. He also served as a board member of the Society of Founders of the International Peace University in Berlin/Vienna from 1996 to 2002, where he lectured annually and chaired its Committee on Arts and Culture. He succeeded Jehudi Menuhin in this role and passed it on to Ishmael Ivo at the end of his tenure. Parallel to his studio art practice, academic teaching and research, Slobodan Dan Paich has written about and worked in the theater for over forty years. Dan Paich consciously and inadvertently advocates for the inclusion of inner-experiences as a vital aspect of a general sense of reality. For decades he has worked with inner-city youth in addressing the Crisis of Perseverance with with artists as role models of achievable mastery. www.slobodandanpaich.designspektrum.com
SUSAN C. ROBERTS, MS, MA, MSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. Inspired by James Hillman's call for a "depth psychology of extroversion," she has also sought to engage with psyche in the world beyond the therapeutic consulting room. For nearly two decades she served as a counselor in independent schools, working with adolescents, families, and teachers both individually and in groups. During that time, she developed a life skills program for high school students that merged psychological literacy with health and wellness education. She has given workshops and lectures on bullying and scapegoating, typology and temperament, and care of the soul in schools in an era of increasing technology and standardization. A longtime student of dreams, the I Ching, and other symbolic languages, she is also an avid observer of collective processes in families, organizations, and culture. Her work "The Power of the Ancestors: The Family Unconscious as a Source of Wounding and Healing" explores the intergenerational transmission of complexes and trauma from family systems, Jungian, and African perspectives. Earlier in her career she worked as a columnist, reporter, and editor for various newspapers and magazines in the U.S., specializing in education, psychology, spirituality, and health.
Links of Interest
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
CEAO: Centro de Estudos Ataide Oliveira (Folktales online library)
Luso-American Development Foundation
Sacred Sites of Peace and Power
Media Community
13-Year-Old Eagle Huntress in Mongolia - (BBC News Magazine photos)
A photographer who snapped what could be the world's only girl hunting with a golden eagle says watching her work was an amazing sight. Svidensky describes Ashol-Pan as a smiling, sweet and shy girl. His photographs of her engaging in what has been a male activity for around 2,000 years say something about Mongolia in the 21st Century.
"A New Vision of Reality" - Anne Baring in Conversation with Andrew Harvey (1 hour, 9.5 minutes)
Jungian analyst, author and philosopher, Anne Baring, talking to Andrew Harvey, Oxford scholar and spiritual activist, about her latest book, "The Dream of the Cosmos."
Animal Communicator – Spirit and Anna Breytenbach (Excerpt, 14 minutes)
Anna recently joined the "Carte Blanche" media team in South Africa, to share her working role as an Interspecies Communicator. This segment explores Anna's experiences with the primates of Monkeyland as well as the big cats of Jukani Wildlife Sanctuary (both near Plettenberg Bay) and also features the well-known and beautiful black leopard, Spirit.
Animal Communicator – (Full length documentary, 52 minutes)
Dreams from Endangered Cultures by anthropologist, Dr. Wade Davis. (Ted Talk, 22 minutes)
He speaks of protecting not only the ecosphere but also the ethnosphere: the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas and human imaginations since the dawn of consciousness.
How Wolves Change Rivers (4 minutes)
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
Years of Living Dangerously (60 minutes)
Public luminaries including respected scientists, journalists, and passionately concerned actors span the globe to explore the issues of climate change and cover intimate stories of human triumph and tragedy. Watch new episodes Sundays at 10PM ET/PT, only on SHOWTIME. The above link leads to the first episode. This episode (free to the public) features Thomas Friedman, Harrison Ford and Don Cheadle.
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