the
Dew
Drop
Inn
Early of a Friday Evening, at the Dew Drop Inn
Coming Events
March 27,
2004
The Role of the Dance:
Music, Movement and Words-- Ritual as a community activity. How did
the Sermon replace the Song as part of our Ritual?
How can the ground be regained? Did the Sky Gods sublimate the Earth God
("Goddess" being a diminutive) to the point where there is no ground to
provide Energy with enough circular flow?
Readings including selections from: Marja
Gimbuta; Richard Rudgley (Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age);
Simone DeBouvier. Suggested readings: Teresa Noelle Roberts; Elaine
Romaine.
Discussants: Lucas Doolin; Jane Morris; Robert King; Robert Ward; Mairen Magee; Paula Milligan; (Tentatively) Elizabeth Siddall
March 11, 2003: The inaugural event— readings from Theodore Roethke, WB Yeats, and Emily Dickinson by Jacqueline Hill, Richard Hill, Robert King, Paula Milligan, and Elwin Wirkala
August 29, 2003: Readings from, discussions of TS Eliot, Sylvia Plath Why was Eliot a failure? Did Plath succeed?
September 19, 2003: Discussion of Utopia/Dystopia; Samuel Butler's Erwhon, more on More's Utopia, a bit on Zardoz
October 3, 2003: Free-Form Friday. Discussion of possible readings and ideas for a Friday in the near future, when we will talk about the ascension of woman to the spiritual center of society. Will the next "Christ" be a woman? Is the patriarch in decline?
October 24, 2003: Open Discussion; further thoughts on the UR, that from which language and literature spring.
October 31, 2003: Lucas Doolin and David Ross: How much jewelry is enough? Has Robert Jordan stepped over the line with raiment and decoration?
November 7, 2003: Is the set of metaphors we now employ embedded in our culture as a result of 3,000 years of patriarchal history? Is the sun, for example, a male symbol and the earth a female? Are eidolons inherently female or male?
Possible readings: Jesse L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance; Robert Graves, The White Goddess; Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God; William Butler Yeats, Mythologies; Graham Hancock, Underworld; the Scrolls of Nag Hammadi
January 7, 2004: Earth and the Goddess: Has the Machine subsumed the Earth?
Why did Blake hate Newton? Was the
Discovery of Iron the critical factor in the decline of the Goddess?
Did the discovery of iron change the nature of the peoples who made the
discovery, or did a mutation of their character allow them to make the
discovery? (Consider the advent of the Sky God/the Dorian Invasion)
At what point did the Industrial Revolution become revolting?
Readings from: Robert
Graves; Mary Oliver; William Wordsworth; Theodore Roethke; Marja Gimbutas;
Fritjof Schuon.