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Hello Questers!
Helping Friendly Book Club 29 has arrived, are you ready to heed the call of the wild? Apologies I’m a little late sending out the Discussion Prompt for tonight’s meeting but I had a presentation due in my Human Centered Design class yesterday, followed by Design Council, and then Mailchimp’s been having all sorts of technical difficulties I didn’t plan for, not to mention the massive AT&T internet outage yesterday from the storms. But no worries, here it is!
We’re beta-testing a new Helping Friendly Visual Sutra languaging system in this prompt as you’ll see, and we’re looking forward to getting your feedback on it after the meeting. If you’re a first timer you can flip all the way to the back of the prompt and there’s an overview that sort of explains some things.
One request is that I no longer have access to the printer I used to, so if you wouldn’t mind printing out a copy at home to bring with you, and maybe even a couple extra copies for other folks if that's easy for you, that would be awesome.
Plan to be inside and get ready to tell stories around the campfire. The Cosmic Door Prize is lit.
Can’t wait to get the band back together! See you tonight, Wednesday 17th at The Wild Detectives at 8:15PM.
Warmly,
Cole
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Helping Friendly Book Club 29
'Women Who Run With The Wolves'
at The Wild Detectives
Wednesday October 17th at 8:15PM
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Women Who Run With the Wolves - October 17th
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Tune your ears and attend to the bones with us on Wednesday October 17th* when Helping Friendly Book Club 29 returns to The Wild Detectives to discuss Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ storytelling masterpiece, “Women Who Run With The Wolves.” The Path of Initiation is a recurring thread in our Quest for #SEJNES (think of Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”, Coelho's “The Pilgrimage”, “The Little Prince” and the Mystery Schools, etc.) and Dr. Estes elucidates it beautifully in this book.
One of the most popular and influential studies of the “Pattern of Initiation” in the relatively recent Western Canon is Carl Jung’s “Process of Individuation.” Dr. Estes is a Jungian psychologist, but she’s also a fantastic storyteller. She tells archetypal stories that resonate deeply with the collective unconscious in each of us, then she squeezes so much brain honey out of them it genuinely shifts the mind.
As I started reading this book, I quickly began to understand why it has such a mystique. So many people I’ve mentioned to that we’re reading this book already have such a strong, emotional opinion of it. Either they’ve read it and it touched them deeply, or they’ve been meaning to read it for years, because everyone they know that read it told them to read it too. It’s just one of those Helping Friendly Books, you know?
We hope you can join us Wednesday October 17th at 8:15pm at our favorite place The Wild Detectives for an evening of insight, friendship, and convivial sociability.
*This was originally slated for Tuesday the 16th but due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict we pushed it one day to the 17th. I hope this works better with everyone’s schedule.
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Discussion Challenge for Helping Friendly Book Club 29
“Women Who Run With The Wolves” is a collection of stories. Your challenge is to come to the meeting with at least one of those stories in mind that you’d like to discuss in further detail. This book is all about the magic of storytelling, and our hope is we’ll have lots of storytellers at this meeting. If you are particularly passionate about this book and would be interested in sitting on the Discussion Panel please reach out. I’d like to turn this over to the wise, wild woman as much as possible.
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“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation - in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
― Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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"Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind"
by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose—and almost as a joke—Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found.
Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues who’d been keeping similar experiences secret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous or crazy.
Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silence imposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about these and countless other “inexplicable” phenomena. From Sigmund Freud’s writings on telepathy to secret CIA experiments on remote viewing, from leading-edge neuroscience to the strange world of quantum physics, Dr. Mayer reveals a wealth of credible and fascinating research into the realm where the mind seems to trump the laws of nature.
She does not ask us to believe. Rather she brings us a book of profound intrigue and optimism, with far-reaching implications not just for scientific inquiry but also for the ways we go about living in the world.
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The Helping Friendly Forest
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The keys to all knowledge are contained in the dot, the line, and the circle. The dot is universal consciousness, the line is universal intelligence, and the circle is universal force - the threefold unknowable. Cause of all knowable existence. - Manly P. Hall
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