June
30
/ 2021
To quote the poet John Donne: “ No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”, but every person may also venture to the mythical islands of the collective subconscious where a wounded soul goes to recover and uncover the Hidden Self. Reminiscent of hunter gatherers gathering around their fires in their winter caves, the tradition of storytelling is replete with islands representing places of extremes, and of dreams, and they served in folklore as both Utopias and purgatories. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"87480","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"406","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from Mundus Subterraneus (1669 AD). Published in Amsterdam, oriented with south at the top
