Raising Apollo, Pythoness & the Great Mother in Greece

by John E. Darling

Overview

Dissatisfied with male-monotheism, a Western white male classicist and devotee of the ancient Euro-Mediterranean religions makes pilgrimage to Greece, has encounters with the old gods, finds his modern, isolated egocentric ways crushed and reemerges, so he thinks, from the Lower World of Western Society into a personal vision of the present age, which he is still trying to figure out.

This is a pilgrimage to sacred sites in Greece and Crete - Knossos, Mycenae, Delphi, the Parthenon, Corinth, Epidaurus, Sounion, with commentary on the ancient spiritual ways, as contrasted to modern. It's also very personal, exploring my own longing for meaning and belonging in ways that do not exist any more.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013069756
Publisher:	Oregon Darlings Press
Publication date:	08/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	61 KB

About the Author

John E. Darling is an author, essayist and journalist in Ashland, Oregon, longtime student of the ancient world, esp Greece and Crete and the mythical foundation they laid for Europe and the West. He writes science fiction and consciousness novels, such as Demonproof. He has taught many seminars based in myth and consciousness, as well as self-hypnosis, rebirthing, loving relationships. He has a master's in psychology and taught the subject at Southern Oregon University. He has a bachelor's in history and English from Michigan State University. He has been a critic, writing of productions in film and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is the father of three great kids.