Cosmic Play

I addressed these questions through the creation of hypertext essays and images exploring various cultural creations, in addition to craftin

My dissertation centers on the following question: “What patterns emerge when we consider the archetypal or transpersonal dimensions of play

It is only fitting that a dissertation with Hermes at heart is a theoretical dissertation using a hermeneutic method. Indeed, that is part o

Several volumes of myths were consulted on the different gods involved in various aspects of play—Burkert (1985), Guthrie (1955), Downing

Not much has been written about Jung’s Bollingen stone. Jung himself refers to the stone in his autobiography (Jung, 1961/1989) and in his l

The classic work on Dionysus by Walter Otto (1965), was examined as well Kerényi (1976/1996) and more recent works by Downing (1993) and Par

Jung’s concept of archetypes as having two different poles—instinct (red) and image (blue) combine in the color purple and also in play.

Tricksters come in all different shapes and sizes. I not only looked at Jung’s article on the trickster (Jung, 1954/1990) but also Tarnas’s

M. Fox, (2002), Myers (1999), and H. Gardner (1993) explore the soul and anatomy of creativity, while von Franz (1978) explicates the nature

Grof (1998a, 2000a, 2000b) also explicates the transpersonal or archetypal nature of the birth process which is seen in Eliade’s (1954/1991b