Quests, Journeys, and Wayside Attractions
The Elements of a Quest
“It is within this mythic time that the great quest stories take place: in a “time not of this time. A place not of this place”. We can, by reciting these tales within a self created mythic time, learn how to integrate the Grail stories, how Raven stole fire, or how Gilgamesh sought his companion Enkidu in the wilderness into our personal mythologies and quests.”
From Counter Culture to Rising Culture
Asking Krippner in a personal interview what the most significant experience of this life was he simply responded, “My birth,” but one has to wonder what early life circumstances could have contributed to his heroic life journey.
The Place I Belong
“Yet the goal of the quest is more than a life-long battle against the onset of death. The quest itself is the life we lead.”
In Search of Revelation
“How to define the manuscript containing the Old English Cynewulf’s poem Elene? A travel book, a religious florilegium, a collection of texts used for preaching, or a monastic book?”
Descensus ad Inferos
Dante crafted his uniquely historical Christian theological interpretation, and political critique of the Church and various powers of his day, on a mythic symbolic superstructure of pagan imagery that is undoubtedly primordial and presumably universal in origin.
Dream Quest for Unknown Gifts
“A long time ago two young women barely out of their teens had a series of dreams. … They lived many thousands of miles apart.”
Artist in Residence
“Journeys and Quests are what we do as humans, it’s important to think on these archetypes and how deeply ingrained they are in our genetic.”
Artist's Profile: Walter J. Johnson
“Walter J. Johnson has a down-to-earth but incredibly interesting life. He spends his time surfing, researching, lecturing, storytelling, writing, playing the flute and holding ceremonial space.”
Review: Indian Summer: Music and Reflections
“Indian Summer is a music book, but so much more. It’s a distillation of the life of a musician. Sure, it has both standard musical notation and dulcimer tablature for 23 songs plus – this is so cool! – links to recordings of most of them.”
New Books
An eccentric listing of books and papers.
New Music
Compiled by Lezlie Kinyon, Coreopsis Ed. in Chief, and Steve Blomerth, Music Editor.
The Final Word
“Open roads go north
Into cloud-dappled sunset
Pillowed hills rise high”