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Tolkien & the Myth of Our Time
Loralee Scaife | Return of the King Within, Tolkien, and the Guiding Myth of Our Time
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Already a member? Log inLoralee Scaife is an astrologer who uses Jungian techniques to analyze mythology, using stories to map the collective unconscious. She's created a video series using The Lord of the Rings films and books as a mystical mythic lens through which we can better understand our troubled times. In our discussion on Tolkien's tales, we analyze the nature of evil and our responsibility to stand up as the good folk of the world, in defense of the Life Force itself.
In the Plus+ Extension, we talk about Tolkien's cosmology, the universal creative purpose of tragedy, lies, and sorrow, the light and shadow of the King archetype, cymatics and the secrets of sound & light, ancestors living in our language, the Age of Aquarius, and the myth of Prometheus. A jam packed extension if there ever was one!