[Image: "Cedar Breaks Star Circle", 2007 © Stu Jenks and used with permission]

It's About Time

• About Time
  
  "Time is one of the great mysteries. Nobody really knows what it is — or even if it is; it could just be a figment of our imaginations. The discipline of geometry describes three-dimensional space, but there is no such mathematics for Time. We say that clocks measure the passage of time, but do they? They tick at their own pace and divvy up the moments of experience, but do they actually touch or reflect actual Time?
  — Bill Bridges [more]

• Excerpt from
  Psyche and Matter
  "Time as a Deity and the Stream of Events"
  
  Time is one of the great archetypal experiences of man, and has eluded all our attempts towards a completely rational explanation. No wonder that it was originally looked upon as a Deity, even as a form of manifestation of the Supreme Deity, from which it flows like a river of life.
  — Marie-Louise von Franz [more]

• The Way of
  the Celestial Lights
  
  Transcription from the Mythic Journeys '04 presentation by D.Min. Rebecca Armstrong on Joseph Campbell's insights to the third of the Four Epochs.
  — Rebecca Armstrong [more]
  
  

• The Clock of the Long Now
  A Talk with Stuart Brand
  
  Stuart Brand, author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly and recipient of the first Erdmann/Campbell Award granted an interview in 1998 on the beginnings of the Clock of the Long Now project.
  — Jonathan Brockman [more]
  
  

• Scaling the Monochord
  of Music:
  An Exploration of Time,
  Rhythm and Mythology
  in Sound
  
  
  "Between the polarities of absolute spirit and absolute matter the Greek philosopher Pythagoras envisioned a single monochord stretched across the spectrum of the universe. Like a skilled musician, the enlightened person would be able to pluck the various frets of planets and sounds with an ease of liquidity. This was considered harmony."
  — Derek Beres [more]
  
  

• Excerpt from
  Bringing it All Back Home:
  Wholeness, Creative Joy,
  and the
  Evolution of Consciousness
  
  "Visionary education would provide an experience of how one enters the realm of the sacred, awakening capacities to re-imagine a world where we live in harmonious being with ourselves, others, and the universe."
  — Lorin Hollander [more]

• The Friendly Guide to Mythology:
  A Mortal's Companion to the
  Fantastical Realm of Gods,
  Goddesses, Monsters, and Heroes
  
  Some of the really useful factual knowledge is packed throughout the book, beginning with "Marduk: A Chronology," and continuing with lists of the sources of the Icelandic Eddas, the Maya Popul Vuh, Hindu and Celtic Mythology, a list of the Greek Titans, a list of eight who journeyed to the Underworld, of incidents involving the Egyptian Eye of Ra, and a bit-story of "How Ganesha Lost His Tusk."
  — William Doty [more]

• Questcon Quest
  
  This month's fiction is a dark and serious tale of fantasy computer gaming and an emotionally damaged family. — Richard Scrimger [more]
  
  
  
• Interview with Author Richard Scrimger
  
  Richard Scrimger, the award-winning Canadian Children's and Young Adult's author, won a Mr.Christie's Book Award in 1999 for The Nose from Jupiter. It was the birth of a series of delightful series of children's books. Richard is also the author of two adult novels, Crosstown and Mystical Rose, and a new book for young children, Princess Bun Bun. — Brenda Sutton [more]
  
  

• Twenty Four Hours in Scotland
  
  Stu Jenks lets you travel along with him on his photo hunt through Scotland to Stirling Castle, the William Wallace Memorial, a night in a rest stop, the Devil's Needle near Dundee, Lunan Bay, Culloden Battlefield, the Clava Stones...and cows. — Stu Jenks [more]
  
  
  
  
• Time
  
  Human time is an artifice, a mechanical way of insuring unity and continuity in society. And it's a way of keeping us in the box, ordinary like everyone else, and insuring the lowest common denominator way of living. Time acts as a device for social control, keeping us from being in our own time, where original genius resides. — James Wanless [more]
  
  

• Imbolc:
  The Time of Fire in the Belly
  
  It's the middle of January. Daffodil bulbs are poking their pale green shoots out of the cold ground, just waiting for their annual rude awakening. Spring is definitely on the way. At this juncture of the Wheel of the Year we celebrate fire and ice, sheep and the coming spring, whiskey punch and corn dollies with rituals for the Celtic holy day of Imbolc.
  (You can even learn how to make a Brigid's Cross.)
  — Brenda Sutton [more]
  
  
  
  
• Rip Van Winkle
  
  Read Diedrich Knickerbocker's posthumous chronicle of one of those happy mortals of foolish, well-oiled dispositions who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away, in perfect contentment. But one day, while crossing the forest he spied odd little men playing ninepins. —Washington Irving [more]
  
  
  
  
• Mythic Glossary:
  Apocalypse, Apocalyptic

Poetry


• Madison's Mourning
  — Dave Alway [more]
  
  
• Tickity Tick Tock
  — Elsa Brooks [more]
  
  
• The Hidden Span
  — Eliot Weinberger [more]
  
  
• New Fire
  — Eliot Weinberger [more]
  
  
• Eternity
  — Emily Dickinson [more]
  
  
• The Song of the Chorus
  From the play "The Rock"
  —T.S. Eliot [more]