Cosmic Play

The notion of lila, especially as seen through Shiva’s dice game, shows us an archetypal pattern that is at the base of the many different s

I named the game Monomythopoly™ as a way to honor Joseph Campbell, who was the reason I went to Pacifica.

Walt Disney, in a Time Magazine interview in 1937, said “we just try to make a good picture. And then the professors come along and tell us

Maps are important, because they help us to situate ourselves, to get our bearings, and make sense of the world around us. Maps are especi

Grof’s work points to an ensouled cosmos and in this he has indeed become an animateur, in more ways than one!

Additionally, in his research, Grof found that people would have experiences that had a similar character or nature and seemed to be variati

As a young man, Dr. Stanislav Grof wanted to be an animator, yet he abandoned this dream when he read and was riveted by Freud's (1933) New

The eternal return is the prototypical example of the descent to chaos to create more order. Van Eenwyk (1997) notes that symbols, as the m

Van Eenwyk (1997) maintains that by understanding chaos theory, we can see how symbols do what they do.

Van Eenwyk (1997) explores the dynamics of symbols in depth. He could explore other dynamics, as anything that the psyche produces reflects