066 — Dreams, Poetry & Sex with Evergreen Hericks, PhD
Susan Evergreen Hericks, PhD has an artistic and psychological approach to being human. Her day to day work involves supporting graduate students who are becoming healers and clinicians. An artist and lover of beauty medicine, ceremony, and social justice, she has a varied background in academia (English, Theology/Ethics, Depth Psychology), rites of passage work and wilderness guiding, ceremonial play and art, and sex positive education.
Evergreen has been active in her local community with numerous projects including co-designing Ojai’s annual community Mandala, which involves hundreds of painters of all ages. On a smaller scale, Evergreen loves creating original masks and painting on large cardboard. Her current passions are for sharing poetry as medicine, dreamwork practice with anyone who wants to do it, and creating a family of odd masks and costumes in which to visit her fellow humans with joy and mystery.
Dr. Fred and Evergreen’s wide-ranging conversation today explores the following:
The roles of ceremonial play and art
Evergreen’s role in creating the annual Ojai Community Mandala
The medicinal potential of poetry
How poetry is economical
Exploring dreams as a window into our souls and psyches
Growing comfortable with “weirdness”
Taboos of discussing human sexuality
Loss of ritualistic and ceremonial practice in our culture
The cyclical nature of everything
How Evergreen received her name
Finding the Yes, and managing the No
Choosing what brings you alive...or not
Episode Length: 00:59:08
EVERGREEN HERICKS’ RESOURCES
Contact
Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/susan.hericks
Email > evergreen.hericks at gmail dot com
Video, Ojai Day Mandala 25th Anniversary > https://vimeo.com/240087142?fbclid=IwAR2JJgWRlTMp78Nij01tdjZBRMSm3cO1kBMt4Wm904Nv9Ew3D-JyyT1SNv0
Photos > see below
ALSO MENTIONED ON TODAY’S SHOW
Ojai Day Mandala Artists (Facebook) > https://www.facebook.com/Ojai-Day-Mandala-Artists-561732330552601
Jane Hirshfield poem, “The Weighing” >
Text > https://poets.org/poem/weighing
Video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyqXGL7ArKM
Pádraig Ó Tuama poem, "The Facts of Life"
Text Audio > https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-facts-of-life
Video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZX4wLYYDQ
Poetry Unbound (podcast) > https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound
Recommended book for dreamwork, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson > https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Work-Dreams-Imagination-Personal-ebook/dp/B002SVQCUG
Dream Guides Annie Bloom and Niles Haggeman > https://buffalodreaminglodge.com
Rites of Passage work via Animas Valley Institute > https://www.animas.org
WELCOME TO HUMANITY RESOURCES
Podcast Website > http://www.welcometohumanity.net/podcast
PURCHASE DR. FRED’S BOOK (paperback or Kindle) > Creative 8: Healing Through Creativity & Self-Expression by Dr. Fred Moss http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Healing-Through-Creativity-Self-Expression/dp/B088N7YVMG
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