September 10, 2020

In Portland today, things are once again eerie. The devastating West Coast fires have reached our state and the sky is just a vast white-yellow haze. Wherever you are, whatever you’re enduring right now, we’re sending you love. It’s our hope that Salome can offer some soulful nourishment to get you/us through these times.

Here’s where my mind is at today: if things can get this bad for this many people this quickly, then radical, radical change is possible. This is the Trickster archetype at work. After the shock and the terror, after our minds have been sufficiently rattled and as a result, broadened, something extraordinary may yet emerge. We have to believe again in dreams we once gave up, believe in transformation for social equality, and the protection of our planet and all living things. We have to believe that what we know in our guts is good for life is both possible and necessary. We can transform this looming doom and present pain to transform the world in ways thought unimaginable just a few years ago. It begins somewhere deep in our own belief of what is achievable. This is us world-making, and world-make we must.

In order to stay present in the belief of what is possible in these times—alongside voting, fundraising, and anti-racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/xenophobic activism—I need mythology and regular archetypal, soulful infusions. If you do too, please join us for some of our salons and seminars these coming weeks and months. They’re guilt-free and soul-full.

Coming-up:

• A new salon announcement on The Age of Aquarius with the extraordinary Carol Ferris on October 8, 2020. Could it be that a new age is finally, truly dawning… ?!

• Part 2 of a 3 part salon with Mythologist Kwame Scruggs on using myth to find orientation in this crazy, crazy world on September 12th & 19th. If you register now you’ll automatically receive the recording from last week to catch-up!

• The much-anticipated salon on the true story of the Gnostic Salome with returning scholar Kayleen Asbo on September 24th! How has this Salome’s deep, heartfelt knowing been buried and how is it now being revealed?

As always, if you need discounts or scholarships to participate, please let us know.

With love,

Satya

Satya Doyle Byock, Salome Institute Director