Veronica Goodchild - Crop Circles and the Mystery of the Grail.

Sunday 24th October 2020.6.00pm – 7.30pm U.K time (BST). This presentation will also be recorded to download if you cant be at the event.

Dr. Veronica Goodchild is Professor Emerita at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she taught Jungian psychology and psychotherapy for over 16 years.  She grew up in England, studied at London University, and moved to the U.S. in her early 20s, eventually completing her graduate education in New York and California. She practiced as a psychotherapist for many years, before turning to teaching and writing.  In the last few years, Veronica has developed Pilgrimage journeys in SW France, Crete and Mainland Greece, and the UK, uniting her interest in myth and legend with visits to sacred sites.  Veronica has a keen interest in the intersection of psyche and nature, and began visiting crop circles in 2008.  She has traveled extensively in France (where she now lives), Peru, and Egypt, following the hints of her dreams.  She is the author of Eros and Chaos: The Sacred Mysteries and Dark Shadows of Love, and of Songlines of the Soul:  Pathways to a New Vision for a New Century.

Presentation: Crop Circles and the Mystery of the Grail.

Synopsis:  Approaching the phenomena of Crop Circles in a symbolic manner, I will select the Clear Wood formation from 2019 (which I visited), and another one from this season, dubbed ‘The Grail.’  There are many descriptions of what the grail ‘is,’ but one of them is that it is a stone that fell from heaven.  On a symbolic level, this suggests that our time, which can arguably be described archetypally as characterized by the grail myth – (the rise of the feminine, the need to unite opposites, the necessity of valuing the imagination as a co-creative function, and facing our personal and collective shadows) – also has to do with the union of spirit and matter.  For me, the crop circles do just that.  They appear on earth, in fields of grain, and yet they embody the most complex geometries that underlie all creation, and which precede our being here at all.  The grail stories involve a journey where the challenges make you ready for ‘the question’ and prepare you for the ‘vision.’  Do the formations engage us with these mysteries as well?  I hope to explore some of these ideas with you.

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