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Robert Bly is one of the most compelling mythologists and storytellers of our time
In The Human Shadow, through poetry, music and storytelling, Bly takes us on a thought provoking and entertaining journey exploring our "shadow" through poetry, music, and storytelling. Bly says that the development of the shadow starts in childhood when parents make it clear there are certain parts of us they don’t like: "you’re too noisy!"
One image is to say we take that part and put it into a bag. Our independence and feeling goes into the bag, the bag is getting heavy and two miles long…You could say we spend our life until we’re 20 deciding what to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our life trying to get it out again.
The higher Self comes to claim everything when it is realized. Bly reveals how to bring into that daylight the stuff of the shadow that we have hidden away for years, for a lifetime, sometimes for generations. Bly's style is humorous, bombastic, touching, loving and ruthlessly honest and intimate all at once, which is why I love the man so much.
This is a great talk, funny, informative and insightful.
This is worth listening to. Bly is a great speaker--he has insights and he presents them with a superb sense of humor. It is hard to imagine a better way of learning (or hearing again) about the archetypal Shadow.
Excellent material delivered in an entertaining and engaging manner. Highly recommend!
Bly takes you deep into into the darkness of the human shadow and holds your hand while he explains how the shadows affect us. Whether he is reading poetry or talking about the dire and dreadful things that we are driven to by rejecting certain aspects of our psyche, he is always entertaining, enlightening and sometime hilarious. I love listening to him and admire him enormously.
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