Meeting Summaries

“Ghost Modernism” / Initiation, Shamanism, & Soul Recovery

"Basel Fastnacht" / Photo by Bertram Mouton   "Along with the feeling of dread for the advent of modernity . . . another important aspect of the modernist attitude -- perhaps the most important aspect for our purposes –  is a turn to mythology and the deep past...

“The Bloody Sire” by Robinson Jeffers

Staircase Inside Hawk Tower, built by poet Robinson Jeffers by hand stone by stone for his wife Una     Dear Friends, As part of the 2024 eight-day North American Section Conference, an intrepid band of literary explorers trekked to Big Sur to visit the...

The Castle Siebeneichen / Where Novalis Wrote “Hymns to the Night,” “Heinrich von Ofterdingen,” & Other Works

  Easter, 2024 Dear Friends, On May 2, 2021, Section friends and members celebrated the 249th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich von Hardenberg, the poet Novalis, by taking a virtual tour of the Castle Siebeneichen.      A Journey to Dresden The...

“The Origin of Fairytales” by Almut Bockemühl

Artwork: "The Three Feathers" by Marion Donehower     “The Fairytale is Mightier Than Philosophy"?   "Once upon a time there was a king who had three sons, two of whom were clever and intelligent, but the third one did not talk very much. He was slow...