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# tamboo

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- [TAMBOO HOME](http://www.tamboo.co.za/) - jung, hillman. archetypal psychology, shamanism, alchemy and kabbalah
- [Contact Us](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-academy/contact-us/) - FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE TAMBOO ACADEMY, INDIVIDUAL THERAPY, WORKSHOPS, TYGRESS INITIATIONS, AND STUDY COURSES, PLEASE CONTACT: tygress@tamboo.co.za
- [Lizards Dance](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/lizards-dance/) - “Joy is in the feet. Dancing in the street.” The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson Lizard's Dance For those who have already done some previous work, a weekend exploring and crossing the boundaries of reality. 14 hours of sustained Breathwork and trance-dance. Exploring co-dreaming, aligning energies and entering into other realities consciously together with one
- [The Art of Intimacy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/intimacy/) - "To Love is to remember who we are." Sam Keen Art of Intimacy INNER LOVERS RELATIONSHIPS AND THE SELF
- [Living Creativity](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/creativity/) - "The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." Carl Jung Workshops to Develop Creativity and Conscious Living DIVINATION: THE PLAYFUL HEART CENTRE STAGE: A COMEDY OF EROS SHADOWPLAY: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BODY MIMIR'S WELL: IMAGES AND ARTIFACTS CREATIVITY 1: IMAGINATION AND INSPIRATION CREATIVITY 2: KINETIC STILLNESS CREATIVITY 3: POETRY AND MOTION
- [Lectures](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/lectures/) - Lectures As time allows and necessity requires, open or public lectures and teaching courses are held on a wide range of subjects. Regular topics include 'C.G. Jung’s Aion', 'Dreams and Active Imagination', 'Money Matters', 'Sexual Imagination and Erotic Practice', 'An Anatomy of the Soul' and other subjects. Lecture series are usually offered at our own centres in Cape Town,
- [Red](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/tamboo-means/red/) - Black, White and Red. The colours white, red and black have been used more or less universally to refer to different stages of human life. Alchemy refers to the three stages of personal development* as moving from the nigredo, the blackness of unconsciousness, through the albedo, the whitening of conscious awakening, to the rubedo,
- [Alchemy and Eclipse](http://www.tamboo.co.za/mysticism/alchemy/alchemy-and-eclipse/) - Alchemy and Eclipse Understanding the Relevance of an Eclipse from an Alchemic Perspective All solar eclipses occur at new moon, that is, when the moon is at its closest point to the sun and has no reflected light of its own. While a lunar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are on opposite
- [Kabbalah Chant](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/kabbalah-chant/) - Soul Calling Kabbalah Chant, Prayer and Meditation Based on the work of Avram Abulafia, a renowned 13th century experiential Kabbalist. This particular chant focuses on the letters, sounds and insights associated with one of God's power names, uniting masculine and feminine elements on both the transcendent and imminent levels. This is an extremely powerful experience
- [TEACHERS AND TEACHING](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/) - Teachers and Teaching Tamboo offer access to a network of trained Image-based Therapists, Conscious Body practitioners and teachers. Individual Therapy is offered by all Tamboo teachers. This comprehensive service covers all areas of physical, psychological and spiritual guidance. The usual form is one-on-one therapy, but couples or family counselling is available as needed. Workshops are
- [Madness and Sanity](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/madness-and-sanity/) - You Must Be Crazy to Read This I heard that the difference between neurotic and psychotic is this: if someone believes they have a problem, and we don't, they’re neurotic. If we believe they have a problem, and they don't, they’re psychotic. This tongue-in-cheek remark (I forget the source) points us in the direction of
- [SIOBHAN BRODIE](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/siobhan-brodie/) - Siobhan Brodie Siobhan’s eros with dance is as eternal as her memories. She dances alone, with others, and enjoys the dance of life both close up and at a distance. There are many expressions of this art. Over the years, her tangos and butoh have taken her through university degrees, into other studies, on ships,
- [Kadeisha Means](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-means/) - Kadeisha Means The word kadeisha comes from the Hebrew root-word K-D-Sh, which means ‘sanctified, dedicated and holy’. Some words derived from the root-word are ‘kiddish’, which is the blessing, often over wine or bread, used to sanctify a holy event or a meal on a holy occasion, ‘kiddushin’, which is the usual word for marriage,
- [Incense](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/incense/) - Incenses Many people are unfamiliar with the different types of incense that are available. These are used in different situations, and using the correct incense in the right space will change your experience of those spaces. Indian incenses are the most familiar, inexpensive, and easily available. They are great for scenting or cleansing a small
- [Thoughts of the Heart](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/thoughts-of-the-heart/) - Cogito: A Conversation with Jung on Thinking "'You said, Dr. Jung, that you went to India in order to know yourself better.. You have said that the Hindu doesn't think his thoughts, and I take that to mean that he doesn’t think with his mind, with his brain, but that his thoughts are produced in
- [Kadeisha and Tantra](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/) - Contemporary Conscious sexuality joins elements of Tantra and Taoism with Kabbalah and Dionysian mysticism
- [the egos hat trick](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/k-n-t1/) - The Ego's Hat Trick “There is little doubt that Western infatuation with eastern spiritual disciplines, ostensibly designed to transcend or extinguish the illusion of the ‘Ego’, has reached an impasse. Instead of offereing an alternative way to transform Western consciousness, these disciplines have been converted into subtle devices for enhancing its insatiable desire for light,
- [jung and the east](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/k-n-t4/) - “We must get at the Eastern values from within and not from without, seeking them in ourselves, in the unconscious.. If we snatch these things directly from the East, we have merely indulged our Western acquisitiveness, confirming yet again that ‘everything good is outside’, whence it has to be fetched and pumped into our barren
- [hillman: western mind, eastern imagery](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/k-n-t5/) - “In the east the spirit is rooted in the thick yellow loam of richly pathologised imagery – demons, monsters, grotesque goddesses, tortures and obscenities... But once uprooted and imported to the West, it arrives debrided of its imaginal ground, dirt-free and smelling of sandalwood.” James Hillman. Re-Visioning Psychology. p67
- [spiritual materialism](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/k-n-t6/) - "The fundamental occupation.. is based upon ego, upon the spiritually materialistic approach.. This practice of meditation begins with a tremendous amount of preparation or ‘self-development’. Actually the aim of such practice (only creates) self-consciousness of the dweller. It is not enough to reject superficially the different aspects of morality as being old fashioned.. This self-conscious
- [KATE HOOPER](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/kate-hooper/) - Katherine Hooper Kate is a practicing Imaginal Therapist. After completing her Social Work degree, she practised for a number of years in Childcare, Hospice, Autism and Mental Health. Born into a large extended family, she was particularly drawn to the dynamics of different characters in complex relationships. Once married, she realised the need to extend
- [the body of this world](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/corpus-mundi/) - The body of this world, my love, fades quickly and is pain. The fire, even with desire, needs tallow to sustain. But flesh that we imagine as quite shallow still contains infinity that opens in and ever will remain. My love, ten thousand steps away and always joined with me, my mother and my sister
- [Intensive Therapy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/intensive-i-therapy/) - Intensive Individual Therapy Intensive Individual Therapy is offered to anyone, especially for those from other areas or overseas, who wish to address their issues in an uninterrupted fashion over several days. These programmes are residential in Knysna and include comfortable accommodation and delicious full-board meals, as well as structured study, rest, recreation and exercise
- [across the lilies](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/across-the-lilies/) - across the lilies the surface tension holds me i walk near to you when i think of you i lose love my body knows come back home to me images of you mirror back into your eyes we see each other free the redwing bird empty of concern or need i am full by lies
- [ecstasy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/ecstasy/) - Tara of my heart has spoken Buddha in my soul awoken At your lotus feet I sit and meditate on you. You have brought me home, my Mother In myself, become another, So my peace is whole and holy, Healed as I serve you. Through each detail, noticed, fleeting, From the inside, cosmic meeting, Flying
- [sealed](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/sealed/) - Once in time, I had my way with you and all the many masks through which you did arrive. The colours of my dragon tail reflecting all the diamond light of heaven and the stars from where I came. And splendid in that strength and anchored in the tango of my ignorance, you were consumed.
- [leave](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/leave/) - IF YOU LEAVE ME I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you,
- [love song](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/love-song/) - How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? I would like to shelter it, among remote lost objects, in some dark and silent place that doesn't resonate when your depths resound. Yet everything that touches us, me and
- [returning](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/returning/)
- [rock of ages](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/rock-of-ages/) - Roll me over sound of stone, slowly closing even fill. Everything seems fixed until the source of all is known. Cloth of calling far from home, barefoot on your hallowed ground. Tolerate this ramble round, in skin and marrowed bone. Soak me through like driving rain wash this weight of world off me. As a
- [rh forgive 1](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-1/) - Vows: self-imposed, made to another, made to God. “It is explained in the Talmud and in Halachic works that the absolution, annulment, or invalidation of vows or oaths applies only to those which one imposed upon oneself, for example, ‘I will eat’, ‘I will sleep’ or ‘I will not sleep,’ and the like. But if
- [rh forgive 5](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-5/) - The Need to Forgive Of course, if those prayers by the wronged party are successful, then the transgression is absolved and forgiven by God, not by man and thus it is no longer a matter of ‘between man and man’. The ‘wrong-doing’ changes its ontological status from ‘bein adam le-chavero’ (between a man and his
- [rh forgive 6](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-6/) - Withholding forgiveness makes that person the sinner “Yom Kippur does not atone for transgressions committed against a fellow man unless we conciliate him.. The person whose forgiveness is sought should grant forgiveness willingly and wholeheartedly and not be obstinate.. if a person harbours enmity in his heart, his prayers on Yom Kippur will not be
- [rh forgive 7](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-7/) - The Teachings of Harav Yitschak Ginsburgh The Patriarchs as Archetypes 'In the Bible, the Book of Genesis is referred to as Sefer Hayashar—literally meaning “The Book of the Straight”—after the Patriarchs who walked in a straight or upright path with God. By walking in a straight path with God’s will, the Patriarchs also walked directly
- [rh forgive 9](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-9/) - Repentence. "The repentant sinner should strive to do good with the same faculties with which he sinned.... With whatever part of the body he sinned, he should now engage in good deeds. If his feet had run to sin, let them now run to the performance of the good. If his mouth had spoken falsehood,
- [zero etymology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/zero-etymology/) - zero (n.) "figure which stands for naught in the Arabic notation," also "the absence of all quantity considered as quantity," c. 1600, from French zéro or directly from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic sifr "cipher," translation of Sanskrit sunya-m "empty place, desert, naught" (see cipher (n.)). A smart and readable history of
- [jing, qi and shen](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/jing-qi-and-shen/) - Jing, Qi and Shen: The Three Treasures 'The author's great teacher, Daoist master Sung Jin Park, described the Three Treasures by comparing them to a burning candle. Jing is like the wax and wick, which are the substantial parts of the candle. They are made of material, which is essentially condensed energy. The flame of
- [trending](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/pan-and-panic/trending/) - Really? More than ½ million people 'like' @whatstrending so they could learn that: a pastor shouted at children that santa isn't real; tupac shakur's ex wants $7500- for a photo of his penis; a prankster pretended to get his head stuck in a microwave; there is restaurant themed around toilets and you eat from a potty-shaped
- [youngstars](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/pan-and-panic/confession-aint-everybody-got-ptsd/youngsters/) - You Like Father You Like Son When Brooklyn Beckham, son of famous soccer mom Victoria Beckham, had his book of photographs published by a major publishing house, one critic remarked: 'So Brookyn is taking after his dad in the creative arts'. To which his colleague replied, 'But David is not a photographer.' 'Quite so,' said the
- [2019 CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2019-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2019 Calendar All courses and workshops are residential in Knysna. Foundation workshops are entry-level courses suitable for curious beginners and advanced students. Intermediate and Practitioner workshops have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated with *, Intermediate and Practitioner with **. A1, A3 & A5 refer to year-long studies in Archetypal Philosophy and
- [proving 4](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-4/) - Dawkins does raise the important matter of the ‘God’s faithlessness’ and the ‘random indifference’ of nature, as Job found to his dismay. But he never considers whether God’s behaviour towards Adam and Eve, or the many times ‘and God smote’ is used in the bible, might be compatible with a more sophisticated relationship with God.
- [proving 3](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-3/) - It would be entirely wrong to think of atheism as a new phenomenon. Maimonides (12thcentury) says, ‘[T]here are three different opinion on Prophesy. I will not notice the view of the Atheist; he does not believe in the existence of God, much less in Prophesy..’ M Friedlander, The Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides,ch xxxii,
- [proving 5](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-5/) - The only positive value that can be ascribed to the modern atheist movement might be to liberate people who are caught up in, and subjected to, brutalizing and oppressive religious dogma. That’s a valid consideration. That might have been the idea of Christopher Hitchens book ‘God is Not Great’. However, the blunt instrument, used extensively
- [proving 7](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-7/) - RD Laing, The Politics of Experience, p98.
- [proving 9](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-9/) - It seems the earliest non-deity practices and philosophies emerge in the East and the West around 500/600 BCE, the time of the Buddha emerging in the East, the high watermark of Greek philosophy in the West, and the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem, the exile of the Jews into Babylon and the development
- [proving 13](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-13/) - Tom Cheetham, Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillmanp18,19. Spring Publications, Thompson, Connecticut, 2015.
- [proving 15](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-15/) - “The 20th century scholar and mystic, Henry Corbin, named this inner realm the ‘mundus imaginalis’ or world of images. He describes this as “a truly real though subtle landscape located in a third domain that is neither precisely spirit or matter, but lies somewhere in between the purely intellectual world of angelic intelligences and the sensible world of
- [proving 18](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-18/) - James Hillman, Suicide and the Soul p66. Spring publications, Woodstock, Connecticut. 1965, 1997
- [proving 16](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-16/) - “Part of the functions of the imaginative faculty is, as you well know, to retain impressions by the senses, to combine them, and chiefly to form images. The principle and highest function is performed when the senses are at rest and pause in their action, for then it receives, to some extent, divine inspiration.. The
- [proving 17](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-17/) - James Hillman, Insearch: Psychology and Religion, p118. Spring Publications, Inc. Putnam, Connecticut, 1967.
- [proving 10](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-10/) - Jane Ellen Harrison, ‘Epilegomena to the Study of Greek religion’, p27. Cambridge University press, 1921.
- [proving 11](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-11/) - Like all creationists, Dawkins gets prosaic about nature’s beauty and the wonder of the natural world. But like his almost-namesake and philosophic mentor, the funny-voiced big thinker Stephen Hawking, he gets all the right pieces in place and then draws the wrong conclusion. Hawking’s states that ‘the laws of physics, not the will of God,
- [proving 12](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-12/) - Here is the full text of Jung’s response after his ‘controversial’ remark that ‘he did not believe, he knewGod existed. It is worth reading through, as it explores the most fundamental issues of what might be meant by our universal use of the word ‘God’ even when this word means something very different to different
- [proving 14](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-14/) - Aryeh Kaplan, Sefer Yetzirah: the Book of Creation p15. Samuel Wesier, Maine, 1997,
- [proving 6](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-6/) - Here is a very brief whistle-stop tour of a few of the ways in which the questions of faith, reason and the existence of God has been addressed in the past. Some believe faith leads to reason, others that reason leads to faith, others that faith is reasonable, others that faith is entirely unreasonable, but
- [proving 8](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-8/) - I heard a sweet saying: ‘The punishment that God gives to those who do not believe in Him, is that God withholds his revelation.’
- [proving 2](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving/) - Or, in many different cultures, the gods, plural. Because this paper is written as part of a series of Rosh Hashanah essays, I will continue throughout to use the monotheistic preference of God, capitalised and in the singular. As the essay will explain, believe and faith in God’s existence is not the prerogative of one
- [good and sweet](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/rh-2018/) - rosh hashanah 5779/2018 Why do we say the blessing 'Have a Good and a Sweet year'? As New Year pops its curly head out of the window of our lives once again, it is worth taking another look at one of the customs of New Year: the manner of greeting one another at this time.
- [four new years](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/rh-2018/many-new-year/) - Four New Years In Judaism, there are four news years each yearly cycle. One for our common humanity, one for our cultural identity, one for our animal nature, one for our vegetative connection to the earth. By analogy, in the secular world, there is a general new year, a school new year, a tax-return new
- [honey and salt](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/rh-2018/salt-and-honey/) - Honey and Salt: Like Cures Like For all the obvious differences between salty and sweet tastes, salt and honey have a shared essential nature. They 'correct' each other. In alchemy and in practical science, salt and honey are preservatives, and they have similar medical properties. They make things last. Psychically, they encourage passing events to
- [religion etymology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-2/religion-etymology/) - religion (n) "State of life bound by monastic vows," also "conduct indicating a belief in a divine power," "piety, devotion; religious community," and "respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods; conscientiousness, sense of right, moral obligation; fear of the gods; divine service, religious observance; a religion, a faith, a mode of worship, cult; sanctity,
- [profane etymology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-2/profane-etymology/) - profane (adj.) "un-ecclesiastical, secular,", "unholy, not consecrated," from pro fano "not admitted into the temple (with the initiates)," literally "out in front of the temple," from pro "before" + fano, fanum "temple" https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=profane
- [Waiting For the Night](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/waiting-for-the/) - I’m waiting for the night to fall When everything is bareable depeche mode When all my day is worn and thin, moth-eaten, and with holes, I will remember gain the taste of falling to my soul. I’ll wrap me then in blanket shroud, of heavy wool and hide, to hold me true to mourn the
- [hillman on community](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/article-hillman-a-contribution-to-soul-and-money/hillman-on-community/) - On a Community of Shared Ideas James Hillman has a less literal view of community. Instead of a group of people living in the same place, the community is based on a shared sense of value around several core ideas. These would include the development of a sense of soul, deliteralising the ego, and respect
- [the narrow straights](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/the-narrow-straights/) - The Narrow Straights. In Greek mythology, Scylla is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice
- [pantimes breathe 2 03b](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/) - Demons and Angels: The Worlds Between There was no PanTimes talk on Wednesday 290720. Instead, here's a PanBreath. Hello Floaty Phlogiston and Crumbly Calxes This Thursday, (starts Wednesday night) is a fast day, the 9th of Av. It marks the end of a three-week period referred to as ‘The Narrow Straits’, an uncertain time often beset
- [phlogiston](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/phlogiston/) - Phlogiston A hypothetical colorless, odorless, weightless substance once believed to be the combustible part of all flammable substances and to be given off as flame during burning. In the 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier proved that phlogiston does not exist. During the 19th century, the idea was: if you couldn't see it, it didn't exist. Then
- [pancakes](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/pancakes/) - Pancakes. Shrove Tuesday is a feast before Lent, observed by many who ‘make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life, or areas of spiritual growth, they especially need to ask God's help in dealing with.’ ‘Shrove’, from the word shrive, meaning ‘absolve’. ‘February’, from
- [Four festivals](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/four-festivals/) - Four Festivals. The Anthesteria was one of the four festivals in honour of Dionysus. It was celebrated at full moon at the beginning of spring. Wine pithoi stored at the previous vintage, were now ceremoniously opened. During the feast, social order was interrupted or inverted.. The Keres, ‘dark beings with gnashing teeth and claws and
- [yuletide](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/yuletide/) - Yuletide Yuletide is celebrated by Europeans during the winter solstice. It is the time when the sun reaches its longest distance from the equatorial plane, resulting in the longest night. Then the light returns, although invisible. Ancient customs highlighted the ritual of sacrifice. They believed that the god Odin led the ghostly procession in the
- [rh forgive 8](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-8/) - The problem of evil and two kinds of good. ‘Should Jews forgive and forget? The problem of evil in Jewish philosophy.’ Rabbi Eli Brackman. Oxford University Chabad Society. www.oxfordchabad.org/templates/blog/post_cdo/AID/708481/PostID/32366 Rav Brackman lecture makes a good point, that the wrong-doer was ultimately the agent for what was predestined by God. That sharpness is immediately blunted by
- [rh forgive 11](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-11/) - 'But forgiveness is so difficult that it probably needs some help from the other person. I mean by this that the wrong, if not remembered by both parties – and remembered as a wrong – falls all on the betrayed. The wider context within which the tragedy occurred would seem to call for parallel feelings
- [Dionysia](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/dionysia/) - Dionysia. The central event was the pompe, the procession, in which phalloi were carried by phallophoroi. Also participating in the pompe were young girls carrying baskets, others who carried long loaves of bread, and jars of wine. This festival was held in the lunar month straddling the vernal equinox, i.e., Mar.-Apr. The phalloi represented the
- [lucky fish](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/lucky-fish/) - Lucky Fish. Typhon was a very powerful adversary to the gods. One bad day, Typhon decided to come up Mount Olympus. In order to escape him, most of the gods turned themselves into animals, to gain speed and agility. Only Aphrodite and Eros, the gods of love, remained. At the last moment, two fish appeared
- [bardo](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/bardo/) - Bardo. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena. These usually follow a particular sequence of degeneration from, just after death, the clearest experiences of reality.. proceeding to terrifying hallucinations that arise from the impulses of
- [demonology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/demonology/) - Imaginal Beings. The rich worlds of archetypal images. It is not we who make up the gods. The gods appear to us in these forms. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/demons-and-demonology
- [midsummer](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/midsummer/) - Midsummer. The turning point between realities. Midday, Pan’s time.The instinctual force of nature. Midday is calculated by taking the hours and minutes, from moment of sunrise until the moment of sunset, and dividing this in two. It almost never 12h00. it is the moment when the shadows are shortest, and that can be dangerous, since
- [civilisation](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/civilisation/) - Civilised Minds. “The Greek ‘daemon’ denotes a supernatural being that stands midway between gods and men. He may be good or bad.. All the beliefs .. take their rise in the primitive and instinctive impulse of human beings to interpret what they see outside of themselves in terms of their own personality.. As man, in
- [festina lent](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/festina-lente/) - Festina Lente Done well is fast enough. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente
- [cats are ineffable](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/cats-are-ineffa/) - Cats are Ineffable The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter,
- [things said to be ineffable](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/things-said-to-be-ineffable/) - Things Considered to be Ineffable A few things said to be essentially incommunicable, according to http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Ineffability The innate properties of any form of perception, at any level (such as awareness, self-consciousness, or other perceptions of the perceived to an arbitrary extent) The nature of qualia (sensory experiences), such as colors or flavors (Although this has
- [ineffable 2](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/ineffable-2/) - Ineffable continued Hans says symbols are ineffable. ‘Symbols and metaphors extend into the realm of everyday language and figures of speech. They also permeate images from the world of advertising, as well as political slogans and emblems, the parables of our religions, the icons and writing of foreign and prehistoric cultures, legal customs and artworks,
- [simplicity](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/simplicity/) - From Ineffability, Simplicity and the Pleasure of Bitterness. Letter to students Therapeia 2 2018 Simplicity I wait then, for a song of praise, So simple, yet my dumbstruck stays, But you unstick me by your sighs and so my visions clear. Ronin. In the words of the ancients, one should make his decisions within the space
- [bitter](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/bitter/) - From Ineffability, Simplicity and the Pleasure of Bitterness. Letter to students Therapeia 2 2018 The Pleasure of Bitterness. Caffeine. Nicotine. The bitterness on my tongue When I say mean things I do not mean. The bitter taste of defeat When I am rightly beat and put in place. Mean it when you say it. bitter (adj.)
- [shoes](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/shoes/) - Shoes A PanTimes breather. Things to think about and to open the imagination. Shoes are more important for humans than we might have thought. They both bind and yet free our feet to carry us without suffering. They have always been items of importance and value, materially, socially and religiously. In Biblical times, they
- [shoes in religion and theology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/shoes/shoes-in-religion-and-theology/) - shoes in religion and theology The Significance of the Shoe in Biblical Writing. If you want to read a fascinating, but lengthy, piece of scholarship from 1915, see what one fellow did with the time allotted to him by fate. We thank him. Islamic dream interpretation Shoes Dream Explanation: In a dream, a pair of shoes
- [shoes in mythology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/shoes/shoes-in-mythology/) - shoes in mythology Hermes Hermes is considered the messenger of the gods, and plays the role of the psychopompos, a conductor of souls into the afterlife. He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and
- [shoes in european history](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/shoes/shoes-in-european-history/) - A Waltz in Europe The Concealed Shoe Index In many parts of Europe and other parts of the world footwear has been found concealed in the structure of buildings for many centuries. There is an idea that the hidden footwear was deliberately placed to act as a protective charm against supernatural beings such as demons,
- [Necessity](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/th22-8-necessity/) - From letter to students Therapeia 22.8 12-13 November 2022. Necessity: Helplessness and Optimism. “Necessity in Greek thought is spoken of and experienced in pathological modes.” “”The idea’, says Plato, ‘is taken from walking through a ravine which is impassible, and rugged, and overgrown, and impedes motion – and this is the derivation of the word necessary.’” “..
- [Calendar 2026](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/calendar-2026/) - Tamboo Academy 2026 Calendar Experiential Workshops. Study Courses. Tyger Tygress Initiation. Therapeia Lectures. If you are new to this community and interested in the teachings, entry points are indicated with *. Foundation workshops * are for all students. Intermediate workshops ** have entry requirements. A2 & A4 are Foundation and Intermediate studies in Archetypal Philosophy
- [the morning after](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/the-morning-after/) - The butterfly who dreams me now, Announces that my death has been; The joy and freedom of the path Flow from the heart and being seen. Illusions of identity, Cohere as senses run their course, And when the feelings are released, The images fly back to source, So I will soon forget myself,
- [The Moonwhile](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/moonwhile-2/) - I watched across the full moon field, two amber eyes and though the grass showing me you had arrived, but at a distance, confident and tentative, playful and cautious, you, who had never been witnessed before, and I shone my shaft of consciousness, but it was too soon and you were gone. So back into
- [WORKSHOPS](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/) - "All the workshops are about untumbling dogma." TRUTH ΑΛΒΕΔΟ, ΒΕΑΥΤΨ, ΧΟΝΙΥΝΤΙΟ, ΔΡΕΑΜΙΝΓΒΟΔΨ, ΕΔΓΕΣ, ΦΛΟΩ, ΓΝΟΣΙΣ, ΗΨΠΑΕΤΗΡΑΛ, ΙΟΣΙΣ, ϑΑΒΥΛΑ, ΚΕΤΕΡ, ΛΑΟΤΖΥ, ΜΑΕΝΑΔΣ, ΝΥΜΙΝΟΥΣ, ΟΡΑΧΛΕ, ΠΑΡΑΔΟΞ, ΘΥΙΧΚΣΙΛςΕΡ, ΡΑΔΙΑΝΤ, ΣΗΑΜΑΝ, ΤΑΝΤΡΙΚΑ, ΥΡΑΝΙΑΝ, ςΙΣΙΟΝ, ΩΙΛΔΕΡΝΕΣΣ, ΞΤΑΣΙΣ, ΨΓΓΔΡΑΣΙΛ, ΖΑΝΨ * Radiant Images Workshops Groups of Workshops EXPLORING THE PSYCHE ART OF INTIMACY HEALING CYCLE SACRED SEXUALITY SHAMAN'S JOURNEY MYSTICISM
- [Introduction to Shamanism](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/shaman-intro/) - This workshop introduces the concepts of developing and living with Shaman consciousness.
- [Shaman 1](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/shaman-1/) - This workshop includes both the 'Introduction to Shamanism' and 'Shaman 1' courses. Shaman 1: Living the Dreamingbody This workshop is designed to explore the learning and theory of classic shamanism and the application of those teachings into direct experiences of living with the sacred. There are discussions on traditional shamanism and its relevance in the 21st
- [The Hero Revisioned](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/psyche/heros-journey/) - "Any journey of significance will leave you changed. Even if you come back to the same place, you will no longer be the same person." Roselle Angwin The Hero Revisioned: Journey Without Goal This workshop was developed out from the work of psycho-dramatist Paul Rebillot, who embraced the studies of the mythologist Joseph Campbell and
- [Living Your Own Mythology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/psyche/living-your-own-mythology/) - "It is a great mistake in practice to treat an archetype as if it were a mere name, word or concept. It is far more than that. It is a piece of life, an image connected with the living individual by the bridge of emotion.".."The archetypes bring about the real events, and not our personal
- [Shadow and Light](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/one-day-breathwork/shadow-and-light/) - "The Shadow is composed, for the most part, of repressed desires and uncivilized impulses, morally inferior motives, childish fantasies and resentments – all those things about oneself one is not proud of.’ Daryl Sharp ‘How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also, if I
- [About Breathwork](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/one-day-breathwork/about-breathwork/) - FOCUSED BREATH and TRANCEFORMATION BREATHWORK©* Focused Breath is the name used by the Tamboo Academy for a powerful technique of using breath, movement, music and other tools as a method of rapidly accessing expanded states of consciousness. The method is based in part on work originally pioneered by Wilhelm Reich and developed further by Stanislav Grof
- [The Media](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/mordechai-brodie/the-media/) - "None of us could fall so low unless we had great depth." - C G Jung 1. THE AFRICAN MAGIC PROJECT There has been a fair amount of media exposure over many years for different aspects of the work. During the African Magic Project, a few of the dozens of interviews, articles and mentions though
- [Truth](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/truth/) - * ALBEDO, BEAUTY, CONIUNCTIO, DREAMINGBODY, EDGES, FLOW, GNOSIS, HYPAETHRAL, IOSIS, JABULA, KETER, LAOTZU, MAENADS, NUMINOUS, ORACLE, PARADOX, QUICKSILVER, RADIANT, SHAMAN, TANTRIKA, URANIAN, VISION, WILDERNESS, XTASIS, YGGDRASIL, ZANY.
- [Towels](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/towels/) - If you only have little towels, use more than one for each of you. If the weather is chilly and if you have a oil-fin heater, turn it on very low and leave the towels hanging over the heater outside or near the bathroom. Depending on the bathroom and the floor, consider putting extra towels
- [Oils](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/oils/) - Pure essential oils are easily available, either as single essences or in ready-made mixtures. It is worth investing in a few of these. Some of their many uses include being used as scents in bathing, added to base oils for massage, rubbed into the palms and breathed in to help focus and added to a
- [Soap](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/soap/) - Many health shops now carry a range of excellent soaps. Nowadays, better quality soaps are readily available. Amongst the nicest is a 'pure' natural olive oil soap. Most are unscented. For scented soaps, try avoid those that are too commercial, since the scents are synthetic and might annoy your nose or skin later on. Visit
- [Drugs and Altered Consciousness](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/drugs-and-altered-consciousness/) - Drugs and Altered States of Consciousness. “Castaneda stated that he would always question the validity of his experiences under the influence of the psychotropic drugs, and that he regarded the final stage of consciousness expansion - the pure wondering perception of viewing the world without interpretation - as not possible with the drugs" Interview with
- [out of the forest](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/out-of-the-forest/) - OUT OF THE FOREST There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to pursue the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound. You do not what you should. You do what you should not. You are reckless, and desire grows. But the master
- [on the edge of the forest](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/on-the-edge-of-the-forest/) - There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to pursue the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound. You do not what you should. You do what you should not. You are reckless, and desire grows. But the master is wakeful. He watches his
- [rock of ages](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/rock/) - Roll me over sound of stone, slowly closing even fill. Everything seems fixed until the source of all is known. Cloth of calling far from home, barefoot on your hallowed ground. Tolerate this ramble round, in skin and marrowed bone, Soak me through like driving rain wash this weight of world off me. As a
- [shadow puppetry](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/psyche/shadowplay/shadow-puppetry/) - Shadow Play Shadow play, or shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment, which uses flat articulated cut-out figures, ‘shadow puppets’, which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen. The cut-out shapes of the puppets sometimes include translucent color or other types of detailing. Various effects can be achieved
- [mystery](http://www.tamboo.co.za/mysticism/mystery/) - theoria et praxis 'Where secrecy keeps silent about the known, mystery concerns the unknown and the unknowable. The participant in a religious mystery shares an experience which he does not bring about himself. He is witness to an epiphany of a God, a drama which draws his soul into its events, and through this experience
- [2018 calendar jozi](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/jozi-2018/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops Johannesburg 2018 Calendar Courses and workshops are offered in Knysna, Cape Town, Johannesburg and elsewhere. The one-day breath workshops and weekend workshops are accessible for curious beginners and complex for advanced students. Please refer to the main 2018 calendar for workshops in Knysna For more information on workshops and community in Gauteng,
- [Bast](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/bast-myth/) - Bastet the Fierce Protector Bast was the ancient Egyptian goddess of protection and cats. As protectress, she was seen as defender of the pharaoh. Her image was a fierce lioness. Her name means devourer. Her cult was active from before 3,200 BCE. As the goddess of protection and blessing, Bast was also the protectress of
- [The Poet](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/the-poet/) - 'The world is full of renunciations and apprenticeships, and this is thine; thou must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower, and thou shalt be known only to thine own, and they shall console thee with the
- [Prophesy and Poetry](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/returning-prophesy-and-poetry/) - Creation Before Creation: On Prophesy and Poetry I recently received a letter from a dear friend. He is an orthodox, practicing[i] Jew. It ends with the line ‘Looking forward to seeing you in Jerusalem with Moshiach, very soon!’ Anyone who has been around religious Jews, especially Hassidic teachers, will have heard similar expressions.[ii] And similar
- [The god of small things](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/therapeia-2017i/) - Honouring the Living. ‘Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot, as is said: "If you eat of the toil of your hands, fortunate are you, and good is to you".' (pirkei avot 4:1) ‘here's to the few who forgive what you do and the fewer who don't even care’ (leonard cohen) ..we
- [calendar 2019 jozi](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/calendar-2019-jozi/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops Johannesburg 2019 Calendar Courses and workshops are offered in Knysna, Cape Town, Johannesburg and elsewhere.Please refer to the main 2019 calendar for workshops in Knysna The Women’s Dream Circle, and The Men’s Table Interactive Groups are formed by a core group, usually between 6 and 10 members, who meet as equals
- [Wild Cats: Tyger](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tyger-wild/) - Burning Tyger: Men's Initiation Series Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry. This strikingly sensuous image of William Blake lies at the heart of the Burning Tyger course that explores a broader sense and deeper experience of masculinity. A sensitive man, in his
- [Tygress postcard](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tyger-wild/tygress-main/tygress-postcard/) - Moon Tygress: Women's Initiation Series There is a dark silhouette that whispers through the scenes of our lives. She waits for our touch, attention, and love. She is the other side of the dual nature of a woman. The twin sister who lives deep below ground, essential complement to all our topside living. Without connection to
- [strange loves](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/strange-loves/) - Tamboo Academy / Studies in Archetypal Psychology Strange Loves: Sexual Compulsions, Masturbation, Rape & Nymphomania. This series of lectures address sexual compulsions that offend, solicit and provoke. Sexual violence, perversity, paedophilia, pornography, and obscenity. Conversations on such matters come with a high emotional charge. They challenge us to find our stand amidst heated opinions. Nevertheless,
- [Inner Gold](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/adept-and-adaptors/inner-gold/) - Inner Gold Recognising Gold in the Mirror. When we awaken to new possibilities in our lives, we often see it first in another person. A part of us that has been hidden is about to emerge, but it doesn’t go in a straight line from our unconscious to becoming conscious. It travels by way of
- [jung-hesse letter](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/4312-2/) - [Carl Jung’s letter to Hermann Hesse on “Demian.”] To Hermann Hesse Dear Herr Hesse, 3 December 1919 I must send you my most cordial thanks for your masterly as well as veracious book: Demian. I know it is very immodest and officious of me to break through your pseudonym; but, while reading the book, I
- [Archetypal Art Therapy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/creativity/art-therapy/) - Mimir’s Well An Introduction to Archetypal Art Therapy ‘Since art therapy activates the imagination and allows it to materialize – that is, enter the world via the emotions of the patient – therapy by means of the arts must take precedence over all other kinds.’ James Hillman In psychotherapy, there are many approaches to the images
- [2025 CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2025-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy 2025 Calendar Experiential Workshops. Study Courses. Tyger Initiation. Therapeia Lectures. If you are new to this community and interested in the teachings, there are entry points to begin your learning, indicated with *. Foundation workshops * are for beginners and advanced students. Intermediate workshops ** have entry requirements. A1 & A3 refer to
- [2023 calendar](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2023-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy 2023 Calendar Workshops. Study Courses. Initiation. Therapeia Lectures. Workshops are residential in Knysna unless indicated. Foundation workshops are for beginners and advanced students. Intermediate workshops have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated *, Intermediate ** A1 refers to foundation studies in Archetypal Philosophy and Psychotherapy. Open to all students. The new cycle begins
- [contentment with poverty](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/contentment-with-poverty/) - From Therapeia 1: Impossibility, Suggestion and the Contentment of Poverty. Letter to students 2018. The Contentment of Poverty: The Certainty of Loss Makes Us Wealthy Like an anchorite or monk, we might live joyfully with very little but that only works when we have much stored elsewhere. ‘None is rich excepting in wisdom. None is poor
- [2021 calendar](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2021-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2021 Calendar All courses and workshops are residential in Knysna. Lectures are in Cape Town. Women’s Tygress initiations are held at diverse locations. Foundation workshops are for beginners and advanced students. Intermediate workshops have entry requirements. Foundation indicated *, Intermediate **. A3 & A5 refer to study courses
- [2024 Calendar](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2024-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy 2024 Calendar Experiential Workshops. Study Courses. Tygress Initiation. Therapeia Lectures. If you are new to this community and interested in the teachings, there are several entry points to begin your learning, indicated *. Foundation workshops * are for beginners and advanced students. Intermediate workshops ** have entry requirements. Workshops are residential in Knysna
- [Sex Therapy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/sex-therapy/) - Sex Therapy, Identity and Intimacy 'I was,' wrote St. Augustine, 'bound down by this disease of the flesh...that only You, God, can cure.' To the Great Doctor of Christianity in the fourth century, sexual desire was a disease; to the great doctors of coitus today, lack of desire is a disease. ‘Inadequate Sexual Desire,’ asserts
- [Exploring the Psyche](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/psyche/) - "The reason that most 'self help' books don't work is that there is usually no coherent 'self' there to help." Workshops to Explore the Personal Psyche JOURNEY WITHOUT GOAL LIVING YOUR OWN MYTHOLOGY CORE LIE SHADOW AND LIGHT
- [tygress main](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tyger-wild/tygress-main/) - Tygress and Tyger Initiation Courses The Moon Tygress and Burning Tyger Initiation courses are a series of workshops, radically revisioning the narrative of women and of men, through an archetypal lens. The teachings are both ancient and modern. The structure follows the mystae and epoptai initiations of the old Mystery Schools, anchored in mythology, while the
- [Let’s Dance](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/lets-dance/) - Let’s Dance There's a new show in town, A new shuffle shoe, A boot slap, a toetap, a dervish in blue, A leap over swords and a tango with words, A silence, Silenus, and death dancing too. Like birds in a flight That exists only then, A song that exists for the moment it’s
- [tygress cycle](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tyger-wild/tygress-main/tygress-2022/) - Moon Tygress*: The Women’s Initiation Series ‘My search for you, your search for me, is a search after something that cannot be found. Only the impossible is worth the effort. What we seek is love itself, revealed now and again in human form, but pushing us beyond our humanity into animal instinct and god-like success.
- [2018 CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2018-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2018 Calendar Courses and workshops are offered in Knysna, Cape Town, Johannesburg and elsewhere. Foundation workshops are entry-level courses suitable for curious beginners and advanced students. Intermediate and Practitioner workshops have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated with *, Intermediate and Practitioner with **. A2, A4 & A6 all refer to
- [i do not love you](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/i-do-not-love-you/) - I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the
- [light](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/light/) - Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth. The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light.
- [Convalescent Retreat](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/intensive-individual-therapy/convalescent-retreat/) - Sanctuary Sanctuary, or convalescent retreat, is a full-board residential option offered within the community for individuals to retreat, renew and re-imagine themselves. Sanctuary and convalescent retreat programmes are usually undertaken for a few weeks and sometimes over a few months. They are naturally dependant on individual circumstances and specific needs. These are discussed in an
- [creativity 2: Kinetic stillness](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/creativity/kinetic/) - Kinetic Stillness The idea, the image-sense we will explore, starts out playing with the dynamic tension between parts of ourselves, the way two pieces of wood might balance on or hang off each other. It is the exploration, primarily through kinetic sculpture and dance, of that imaginal centre of our being that informs, endures, entertains
- [Leap of Faith](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/creativity/kinetic/leap/) - There's a new show in town, A new shuffle shoe, A boot slap, a toetap, a dervish in blue, A leap over swords and a tango with words, A silence, Silenus, and death dancing too. Like birds in a flight That exists only then, A song that exists for that moment it’s sung, A comet
- [centre stage](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/center-stage/) - Centre Stage: A Comedy of Eros “If psychotherapy is to understand the dreaming soul from within, it had best turn to ‘theatrical logic’. Our lives are the enactment of our dreams.” James Hillman "We try to escape the truth about ourselves, whereas in the theatre we are invited to stop and take a closer look.”
- [Foundation Course Requirements](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/foundation-courses/) - Basic Workshops, Practices and Therapy The prerequisite for joining the foundation study course would be involvement in the basic workshop cycle, the initiation of individual therapy and a willingness to begin with 'basic practices'. The Basic Workshop Cycle includes the 5-day Kadeisha and Shaman workshops, and at least some of the shorter Inner Lovers, Mythology,
- [Forgive and Remember](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/) - This essay was written and sent out for Rosh Hashanah 5774/2013 Forgive and Remember As Rosh Hashanah draws us near, we face one of the central concerns of this time: forgiveness. There are many scriptural, legal and philosophic writings on the subject. On erev yom tov, the morning before Rosh Hashanah even arrives, there is
- [James Hillman](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-academy/james-hillman/) - James Hillman One of the truly great teachers of the 20th century. Or any century. Here is the Wiki link. Its pretty poor, quite dull, and seems axe-grindery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hillman This obituary gives a better and more inspired biography. https ://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/dec/21/james-hillman Here is an interview when Hillman was 71. Good stuff http:// www.scottlondon.com/interviews/hillman.html At the end,
- [ADVANCED STUDIES](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/) - Studies in Archetypal Psychology The Tamboo Academy offers structured two-year courses in Jungian and Archetypal (Imaginal) Psychotherapy, Conscious Body awareness and related studies in psychological consciousness. The initial Foundation Course 2-year cycle (A1&A2) is open for students who have begun the foundation workshop cycle and who wish to continue and deepen their studies. This course
- [Kadeisha 1](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-1/) - Joyful and satisfying sexual expression and a rich spiritual life are often thought of as mutually exclusive. The mystical traditions in every culture have shown us otherwise. Kadeisha 1 Tantra, Taoism, & the Practice of Sacred Sexuality 1: THE METAPHYSICS OF SEXUAL TRANSFORMATION The first part of the workshop explores the traditions that incorporate
- [reflections of creativity workshops](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/reflections-of-creativity-workshops/) - Reflections on Creativity Workshops. Some clarification: There are 3 creativity workshops. They are intertwined but each is independent and separate. There is no need to have done any one to do any other. Although, it certainly is useful to have done Cr1, where we spend a bit more time on ‘the basics’ of articulating imagination
- [THIASOS](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/) - Conscious Community A Fellowship of Devotion, Ritual and Learning. “We cannot recover alone or even in support groups. We need communal recovery, recovery of communal feeling and each group provides the nucleus of that feeling.”1 Brotherhoods, sisterhoods, churches, schools, monasteries, temples, lodges, academies, yeshivas, madrassa, ashrams, sangha and dozens of other terms have always existed,
- [Shadow and Anima/Animus - C.G. Jung](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/lectures/article-jung-shadow-and-animaanimus/) - These lectures are part of the first year study course. They are also open to the public. AION: C G Jung on Ego, Shadow and Anima/Animus During the 1950s, when he was already over seventy years old, C.G.Jung published some of the most complex and least accessible of his writings. These were writings about the nature
- [Basic Practice](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/basic-practice/) - There are four vital keys to living consciously. These are: daily practice, conscious diet, daily meditation and daily bliss. These can be simply explained: 1. Daily practice is some form of structured physical routine, such as Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates, Martial Arts or another physical practice that develops and brings a finer awareness into movement
- [The Foundation Course](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/a1a2/) - Studies in Archetypal Psychology: The Foundation Study Course Curriculum The A1 & A2 Foundation Course requires physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual dedication. It involves research, extensive reading, private study and numerous written papers, as well as attending various residential and non-residential study courses four times during the year, over the two year cycle. It is
- [Interactive Groups](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/interactive-process-groups/) - Interactive Groups: Playing on the Edges of Psychological Self-Therapy. The Women's Dream Circle, and The Men's Table Interactive Groups are formed by a core group, usually between 6 and 10 members, who meet as equals to discuss their images, issues and ideas. These discussions are therapeutically oriented towards the psychological and mythological. Previous experience in any
- [Phoenix](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/mordechai-brodie/the-media/phoenix/) - Most individuals, locally and abroad, have been amazed and delighted with the work. One cannot please everybody. To the minority of unhappy souls looking to blame someone else for their own misery, we offer the following reflections: “Or are you a journalist who sells his principles in the markets of slaves and who fattens on
- [Th 2023.1](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/th-2023-1/) - From letter to students, Therapeia 2023.1 : 21-22 January 2023 Believing is Seeing: History and Herstory. New Year usually arrives young and optimistic. And trudges away at the end of that cycle somewhat cynical and skew. And often none the wiser. The end is in the beginning. Part 3 of James Hillman’s seminal Myth of
- [Therapeia 22.9](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/therapeia-22-9/) - From letter to students for Therapeia 22.9, 09-10 December 2022. Character and Destiny. “Ethos Anthropos Daimon” Heraclitus, frag.119 This phrase is most often translated as ‘Character is Destiny’, although there are other ways to deepen our understanding of what Heraclitus might mean, by more closely examining some of his ideas.1 You could go a more
- [Kadeisha 2](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-2/) - Kadeisha 2 Bonding, Taboo and the Art of Sacrifice Extending the work of the Kadeisha 1 workshop, this gathering explores the origins and necessity of taboo, and the limits of transgression in Kadeisha practice. Themes of Bondage, Sacrifice and Taboo appear repeatedly in all sacred writings. Yoga, meaning ‘to bind, to yoke’. The word 'religion',
- [th 3 iii](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/th2017iii/) - Therapeia, October 2017. Preparation notes for students. Some fun links and references of interesting stuff. Impossible Loves: Horror, Healing and Hades. ‘The Suffering of Impossible Love’, (Myth of Analysis, p92-107). Impossible love? Is there a ‘possible love’ then? Horror. ‘We suffer,’ says Jim. ‘The torture of the soul seems unavoidable in every close involvement’. ‘Our myth tells
- [Weaving Word and World.](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/weaving-word-and-world/) - From a letter to students for Therapeia 22.7: 08-09 October 2022. The Precision of Ambiguity: Suffering, Joy, and Conversations with the Divine. “Has Eros touched psychology with joy and passion, so that psychology, too, may become a place of soul-making?” (MoA 205). This, in the opening paragraph of the final chapter of part 2 of
- [Images of Therapeia](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/) - Therapeia: The Practice of the Art Dionysian Consciousness Pan and Panic The Gods of Small Things The Impossibility of Love Contentment in Poverty Suggestion Ineffability Simplicity Bitter Intelligent Love Imaginal Ego The Perception of Uniqueness The Precision of Ambiguity
- [The Perception of Uniqueness](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/therapeia-22-6/) - From letter to students for Therapeia 22.6: 10-11 September 2022. The Perception of Uniqueness. In the previous lecture, we set about to radically review our understanding of mythology and what it might mean for the soul: “The purpose of myth was to relate the soul to.. its divine nature..” (MoA 192). Contrary to 19th century
- [The Imaginal Ego](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/therapeia-22-5/) - From letter to students for Therapeia 22.5: 09-10 July 2022. Reimagining the Ego. We began this study (of Hillman’s The Myth of Analysis, ch2) into the structures of psychology that were developed in the 19th century. That’s when the the odd bodies of being human, buried in what was now called ‘the unconscious’, were disinterred
- [An Introduction to Tantra](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/an-introduction-to-tantra/) - This article was originally published in Namaste magazine in May 2000. An Introduction to Tantra In recent years, there has been a notable world-wide interest in Tantra. In South Africa, numerous articles and interviews have recently appeared in the media. While this attention makes teaching a little easier, there is still a great deal of
- [2022 calendar](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2022-calendar-2/) - Tamboo Academy 2022 Calendar Radiant Images Workshops. Tygress and Tyger Initiation. Therapeia Lectures. Workshops are residential in Knysna and non-residential in Cape Town and Gauteng. Foundation workshops are for beginners and advanced students. Intermediate workshops have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated *, Intermediate **. A4 refers to studies in Archetypal Philosophy and Psychotherapy.
- [Creation Mythology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/creation-mythology/) - ‘The sacred time periodically re-actualised.. is a mythical time.. an original time in the sense that it came into existence all at once, that it was not preceded by another time, because no time could exist before the appearance of the reality narrated by the myth.. For religious man, the world is renewed annually. Each
- [Copyright on Material](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/copyright-on-material/) - Copyright on Material Tamboo, The Tamboo Academy, Kadeisha, Radiant Images Workshops, Focused Breath, ConsciousBody Therapy, The Women's Dream Circle and The Men's Table are all original concepts that have been created and developed by the Tamboo Academy. Four early workshops contain elements derived from the methods and teachings of people with whom we have worked or who
- [initiation and ritual](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/adept-and-adaptors/ritual-movement-and-fire/) - Initiation Transformation Ritual: Movement and Fire. In its first moments out of a chrysalis the butterfly voids a drop of excreta that has been accumulating during pupation. The drop is frequently red and sometimes voided during flight. Consequently, a shower of butterflies may produce a shower of blood, a phenomenon that released terror and suspicion
- [suggestion](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/suggestion/) - From Therapeia 1: Impossibility, Suggestion and the Contentment of Poverty to students in 2018. Suggestion: On Giving and Receiving in Love Himeros, Anteros and Pothos, which Hillman says would be ‘the whole of it.’ Let us be content then with these. When I love, caught, compelled, blessed and burdened by my desire, my wanting something to be
- [Therapeia 22.4 psychopathology revised](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/therapeia-22-4-psychopathology-revised/) - From the letter to students for Therapeia 2022.4: 11-12 June 2022. Psychopathology Reimagined. “Of all the terms of analytical language that we have been reviewing, the unconscious is the first we should renounce.” (MoA p173). In the previous Therapeia, we already began exploring the idea that what psychology has been calling psychopathology, might really be
- [language and speech](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/therapeia-22-2-language-and-speech/) - From a letter to students for Therapeia 2, April 2022. Language and Speech. There are usually two ways to see a situation and to say something. My way and your way. We often refer to those as ‘the right way’ and ‘the wrong way’. This is not just me understanding the matter correctly, which of course
- [The Wages of Sin](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/the-wages-of-sin/) - RH 2021/5782 The Wages of Sin ‘No one would commit a sin unless the spirit of folly overcame them’ (Talmud, Sot3a) ‘And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly.. this also is a striving after wind’ (Ecc 1:17) As we approach Rosh Hashanah, and the Days of Repentance1 between
- [Shaman 2](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/shaman-2/) - Shaman 2: Dreaming the Crystal Body The first Shaman workshop opened us experientially into the ‘world as energy’, expanding our concepts of space and time, and developing the ability to see and hear in new ways. Going on ‘walkabout’ in Middleworld and paying attention; dreaming, drumming and gathering soul songs; journeys into the Underworld
- [PanTime 09](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantime-09/) - Sitting in the Gates: The Movement of Men From the PanTimes talk on Wednesday 27 May: Men. Can’t live with them. Can’t live without them. Or is that what men say about women? Women said it differently. ‘A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle’, from an earlier phrase, that ‘Man needs
- [creativity](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/) - Psychological Creativity: Therapeia Studies and Creative Workshops Creativity has two differentiated threads. The theoria and the praxis. Like a warp and weave on a loom, it is the two aspects together that give the creative process context, meaning and value. Theoria refers to the ideas, images and feelings, the imagination that allows and drives
- [CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2014 Calendar All courses and workshops are residential in Knysna. Foundation courses are entry-level workshops suitable for curious beginners and advanced students. Intermediate and Practitioner courses have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated with *, Intermediate and Practitioner with **. A2, A4, A5 & A6 all refer to Foundation, Initiation and
- [pantimes07](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes07/) - Blood and Milk: Need and the Mysteries of Birth and Initiation On the PanTimes talk from 13 May: Hello Masked Avengers and Private Dancers, Out there in the world, everyone hides their mouths behind their masks. It’s the Law. And lawd knows, petty tyrants and bureaucrats love their moments of the illusion of power. You’ll
- [pantimes 2.02](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-2-02/) - Enduring Oneself From the Calmness of Spirit to the Appetites of Soul From the PanTimes talk Wednesday 15 July, at 12h00. Yellow. Colours convey meaning. They can be a matter of life and death. Best to not drive through a red traffic light at a busy intersection. Best to not eat meat that has turned green.
- [ELZANNE ROOS](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/elzanne-roos/) - Elzanne Roos Elzanne loves books and their contents. Her degree in psychology and honours in English literature gave her the confidence to study, think, create and then articulate her views in both spoken and written words. Sometimes a word-caterpillar, Elzanne's current work as an editor, writer and scholar of psychological philosophy allows her to be nourished
- [MIRIAM COHEN](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/miriam-rawicz/) - Miriam Cohen Miriam is not conventional. After completing a conventional degree in psychology, Miriam’s curiosity and her appetite for the unusual guided her toward a different and more creative dialogue with her world. When she is not busy poking under rocks, peering over walls, looking inside wells and gazing into scripture, Miriam has a bustling
- [taoist sexuality](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/k-t2/) - Taoist Sexual Alchemy It would not be correct to say that modern Taoist sexual teaching is just pseudo-Taoism. It is also not too far from the truth. In its original development, the majority of Taoist teachers viewed ‘dual practice’ (where two people actually get together physically, having sex) as either something to be avoided or, alternatively, as
- [pantimes06](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes06/) - Love. All you need is. Make. Fall in. From the PanTimes talk on 06 May: The previous week had brought little relief to the those who have cabin fever. The government had not so much ‘eased the lockdown’, as to let us know that the future of state control is present. Imagine being told that
- [PanTime talks](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/) - PanTime Talks Hello lockdown lunatics and distancing dreamers. We might have forgotten about Instinctual Compulsive Raw Nature, both the creative and the destructive force together, and yet Pan hasn’t forgotten us. We held our first Pan Time talk on panic, infections, stress, isolation, monies, fear, conspiracy theories, medical and psychological views, personal health, the soul, humour, death,
- [One-day Breathwork and Other Workshops](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/one-day-breathwork/) - 'If you don’t get it in your body, you don’t get it at all.' Focused Breath Workshops Tamboo offers a series of one-day courses. One group of these are the Focused Breath Workshops, each one exploring a different aspect of personal and spiritual development. Some address personal psychological issues, creativity, 'romances and finances' and pathologies. Most Focused Breath
- [MORDECHAI BRODIE](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/mordechai-brodie/) - Mordechai Brodie Mordechai's journey began with Yoga, Taoism and a degree in Philosophy. This was followed by Kabbalah and Rabbinic studies in Israel, training in ceramics, tribal culture and the 'African Magic' work, initiation rituals and further learning. Mordechai Brodie is a teacher and Archetypal psychotherapist based in Knysna and Cape Town. With over 50 years of
- [pantimes holdem](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-holdem/) - A Brief History of PanTimes Here is access to the previously worn PanTimes: PanTimes 0104 panic PanTimes 0804 plagues PanTimes 1504 being ‘in’ PanTimes 2204 threshold PanTimes 2904 death PanTimes 0605 love PanTimes 1305 need PanTimes 2005 insight PanTimes 2705 men PanTimes 0306 stopping PanTimes 2406 breath PanTimes 0107 destitute PanTimes 1507 yellow PanTimes 2207 improper
- [Pain](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/pain/) - PAIN "Pain is very real. We cannot pretend that we are all happy and secure. Pain is our constant companion.. If we are seeking eternity or happiness or security, then the experience of life is one of pain, duhkha, suffering." "If there were no confusion, there would be no wisdom." "The spiritual path is not
- [creativity 3](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/creativity-3/) - dree your weird. poetry and motion. If we accept as axiomatic that ‘the basis of mind is poetic’1 then ‘poetry’ becomes a critically relevant mode of access into the imaginal, the mundus imaginalis of Corbin, both as a practicing therapist and as an ordinary person who lives every day as a practitioner. Poesis also means
- [pooh brain](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/individual-psychological-therapy/therapy-2/bear-brain/) - “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” Winnie the Pooh Roshi
- [dionysian consciousness](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/therapeia/) - Therapeia: Some Introductory Conversations Letting God In. Dionysian Consciousness. Woundedness is initiatory to meeting Dionysus. When we speak of body, we are referring to body-as-image, the emotional, articulated body. The Dionysian body. “Through the suffering, comes a sense awareness. This kind of consciousness refers to mutilations and afflictions of the body organs that release the sparks
- [therapeia 21.1](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/therapeia-21-1/) - extracts from the letter sent to students for therapeia 2021.1 Reflection, Persuasion and Intelligent Love Pompeiian fresco of Peitho (left) taking Eros to Aphrodite and Anteros,. (Naples National Museum) The Good News is that our Great Investigation Into Love has found time for us. We will continue with the challenges of ‘Socratic Eros’, and the necessity
- [ineffability](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/ineffability/) - From Ineffability, Simplicity and the Pleasure of Bitterness. Letter to students Therapeia 2 2018 "I do not recognize memory in the sense in which you mean it. Whatever we encounter that is great, beautiful, significant, need not be remembered from outside, need not be hunted up and laid hold of as it were. Rather, from the
- [impossibility](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/impossibility/) - From Therapeia 1: Impossibility, Suggestion and the Contentment of Poverty. Letter to students 2018. Impossibility: Because It Makes Soul, Love is Possible A labyrinth is a multi varied image. One might have a minotaur and another might be Chartres. The path itself has meaning and the value is in the experience of getting there and getting
- [pantimes 12 08](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-12-08/) - From the Mouth of Babes: Teach Your Children Well From the PanTimes talk 12 August 2020 Offspring: 1. A person's child or children. 2. An animal's young. 3. The product or result of something. We spoke recently into the matter of improper relations. Staying with the idea of family, we look at children, the childish and
- [pantimes 2.03](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-2-03/) - Blood is Thicker: Marriage, Incest, Theft, Madness, and Other Family Affairs From the PanTimes talk 22 July 2020 Improper Relations. There is sort of joke in therapeutic circles. We say ‘Every family has a paedophile uncle.’ I suppose we could add, ‘And a crazy aunt.’ If you look carefully, and sometimes it’s just plain obvious,
- [pantimes talks artist](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-talks-artist/) - From the PanTimes talk 09 September 2020 The Creative Imagination: Bringing Us the Latest Ancient News The Artist. Is everyone an artist? We like to say that everyone is good at something, and each person can express themselves creatively. Most performance, poetry, paintings, pots and puddings are, however, not very good. Obviously, we can all tell the
- [pantimes 2.01](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-2-01/) - Inauthentic Suffering: Standing Outside of Oneself From the PanTimes talk on Wednesday 01 July 2020. destitute (adj.), ‘abandoned, forsaken’, from de ‘away’+ statuere 'put, place, to stand,' from 'to stand, make or be firm.' Of persons, forlorn, hopeless, sense of lacking resources, without means, impoverished, indigent’. What does it mean to ‘stand away’ from life,
- [pantimes 10](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-10/) - Stopping: The Cessation Between Outbreath and Inbreath From the PanTimes talk on 03 June: Stop. How do we stop, or what stops us? This applies as much to ending a relationship, as finishing a painting or poem. Cezanne says that a painting is complete at every stage of the work, even if it is never
- [pantimes 08](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-08/) - Show Thyself: The Curious Art of Revelation From the PanTimes talk on 20 May: Seeing and being seen. Behind the masks that everyone wears, now literalised, what we see are the eyes. Our eyes are windows into the world, from the inside out, and also the window into our soul, from the outside in. What
- [pantimes05](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes05/) - Death and Dying: Thymos, Psyche and Bardo From the PanTimes talk on 29 April: Hello Dry Drinkers and Sad Smokers, In the previous few talks we have discussed different elements of the pandemic and lockdown, as viewed through the lens of mythology and psychology. We began with the Biblical plagues, and the angel of death
- [shoes in antiquity](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/shoes/shoes-in-antiquity/) - Shoes in Antiquity Right is Right Pythagoras told all his followers to put their right shoes on first to keep their souls clean. (They also couldn't eat beans or touch white roosters.) Augustus put his left shoe on first, instead of his right one, and faced a mutiny by his soldiers. He narrowly escaped murder
- [2020 CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2020-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2020 Calendar All courses and workshops are residential in Knysna. Lectures are in Cape Town. Women's Tygress initiations are held at diverse locations. Foundation workshops are for beginners and advanced students. Intermediate workshops have entry requirements. Foundation indicated *, Intermediate **. A2 & A4 refer to study courses in
- [Adept](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/adept-and-adaptors/) - Adept at Adapting adept (adj.) 1690s, 'completely skilled, well-versed,' from Latin adeptus 'having reached or attained' figuratively 'to attain to, acquire,' from ad 'to' (see ad-) + apisci 'to grasp, attain'. adept (n.) ' an expert, one who as attained knowledge,' especially 'one who is skilled in the secrets of an occult science,' 1660s.. The Latin adjective
- [pastime 2.03c](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/translation/) - Interpreting and Translating Worlds: Meaning What You Say. There is no PanTimes talk this Wednesday 05 August. Here is a PanTime thought as entertainment. Translation. Every translation is an interpretation. I had a few minutes, between household chores, so I did the sort of thing that entertains me, when I have a moment. I checked
- [pay strange loves](http://www.tamboo.co.za/shop/pay-strange-loves/) - PayPan Loves Compulsions: Masturbation, Nymphomania & Rape Prepaid access only Local: The Course: zar1800-, per lecture zar450- Outside South Africa: The Course $150, per lecture $45. This access is a screen license and enables couples to watch together. The four courses together form one continuous body of work. However, each can be attended and enjoyed
- [book shopping](http://www.tamboo.co.za/shop/book-shopping/) - Shop at Loot.co.za Shop at Amazon.com Shop at Kalahari.com Shop at BookDepository.com
- [Wisdom and Madness](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/) - Wisdom, Madness and Folly "And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this was also a striving after wind. For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow." (Eccl 1:17-18). This needs to be understood. Transliterated from the original Hebrew, these two
- [the mermaid](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/adept-and-adaptors/the-mermaid/) - The Mermaid: The Hetaira Aspect in Women The wise hetaira takes the relationship between love and freedom into account. She is the woman who would rather struggle to keep her loves unbounded by convention. The other side of the wise hetaira is the foolish virgin who lives in the thrall of daemonic freedom; she belongs
- [musing](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/adept-and-adaptors/musing/) - Musing A Destiny of Her Own How close she came to being dominated by the maiden-mother or girl-woman who trades her beauty and worth for five minutes air time. Dismissive of other women, including that feminine force within, she focuses on the masculine and sees him not as he is but as she wants him to
- [the night circus](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/adept-and-adaptors/the-night-circus/) - Dark Theatre: The Art of Unsettling Every night as the circus opens, we recommend admitting a lie or a deception, sotto voce, a rogue’s prayer to the soul. Trust us, your secrets differentiate you from no one, but the soul awakens a little when she hears them. We have her interests at heart. Try to
- [sleeping beauty](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/adept-and-adaptors/sleeping-beauty/) - Sleeping Beauty and the Medial Feminine It may seem like a long way around – but this thread leads back to the problem of Sleeping Beauty, whose going under and coming out were mediated by the feminine principle active in fairies, who are little and look young but in fact are ageless beings (like the
- [Thiasos and Maenads](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/thiasos-and-maenads/) - Theasoi, Maenads and All That Jazz Thiasos: In the earliest writings, thiasoi appear in literary sources in connection with Dionysus and with other ecstatic cults. How these earlier thiasoi were organized is unknown; possibly they were brought together for no longer than the duration of a particular rite. However that may be, the members were united
- [talaria](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/shoes/talaria/) - The Talaria of Hermes Hermes Hermes is considered the messenger of the gods. He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the
- [Creativity Workshop](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/creativity/creativity-2/) - "Since art therapy activates the imagination and allows it to materialise.. therapy by means of the arts must take precedence over all other kinds.. Only imagination can release us from obsession.." James Hillman "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.." C G Jung Creativity 1 Imagination
- [Alchemy 1](http://www.tamboo.co.za/mysticism/alchemy/) - 'The body has to be spiritualized and the spirit must be incarnated. Both things must take place.' M L von Franz 'Only that which has been properly separated can be rightfully joined.' Paracelsus Alchemy 1: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth No one could overestimate the importance of alchemy and alchemic symbolism in the western
- [shoes in fairy tales](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/shoes/shoes-in-fairy-tales/) - Magical Shoes A great pair of shoes can take on magical powers for the women who wear them. In "The Wearing and Shedding of Enchanted Shoes," Isabel Cardigos, wrote, "Shoes are paradoxical objects in that they constrict feet and yet free them to cover greater distances in space." Using different examples, Cardigos supports her argument
- [paypantimes](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/paypan/) - PayPanTimes For joining a live PanTime talks: Sliding scale payments for each PanTimes talk: Locals: 200zar if you have, 100zar if you can, 0 if you are out of work and monies. Far Away Folk: $20 if you have; $10 if you can; $0 if you haven’t got. Or choose your own amount. Please put
- [Ritual Bathing](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/) - Getting Wet Do you want to experience ecstatic and blissful loving? Good. Then take a bath! Bathing can be a wonderful part of conscious loving relationships. From the earliest times, baths have served to do more than just clean the body. The great baths of the Indus Valley date back 4500 years and were used
- [Flowers](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/flowers/) - Flowers All flowers add beauty. Their very impermanence reminds the soul of the gift of giving our best into the present moment. One single rose bud, even an old one, can be broken off its stem and its petals scattered in the bath with stunning effect. Irises and lilies, because they have fewer petals, might
- [MYSTIC](http://www.tamboo.co.za/mysticism/) - my'stic, a. & n. Spiritually allegorical; occult, esoteric; of hidden meaning, mysterious & awe inspiring; one who seeks by contemplation & self-surrender to obtain union with or absorption into the Deity, or who believes in spiritual apprehension of truths beyond the understanding. The Concise Oxford Dictionary Studies in Mystical Knowledge KABBALAH ALCHEMY 1 ALCHEMY
- [pantimes breath around](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/around/) - A PanTimes entertainment 010920 Getting Around: Quiet Essence in the Spin of Existence Hello Funfair Family Recent weeks have seen us on a Rollercoaster1. And left us feeling a little giddy2. Some of the Dodgems3 have been personal and family driven, and required us to keep our eye on the road. Others are the Carousel4 of the
- [circle dance](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/around/circle-dance/) - Circle Dance: The Drama and Joy of Community Circle dance or chain dance, is a style of dance done in a circle or semicircle to the accompaniment of rhythm instruments and singing. Circle dancing is the oldest known dance formation, and was part of community life. In Sothern Africa, the San Bushman shamanic trance-dance that
- [circumambulation](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/around/circumambulation/) - The Moon Around the Earth; The Earth Around the Sun. The Heavens Teach us. Circumambulation is the act of moving ritually around a sacred object or idol. “There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self…” Jung MDR 196 Christianity. In the Catholic Church, a priest sometimes circumambulates an altar while
- [widdershins](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/around/widdershins/) - Widdershins: Turning Back the Clock widdershins (adv.)1510s, chiefly Scottish, originally "contrary to the course of the sun or a clock" (movement in this direction being considered unlucky), from Middle Low German weddersinnes, literally "against the way" (i.e. "in the opposite direction"), from widersinnen "to go against," from wider "against” + sinnen "to travel, go," from
- [bonpo](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/around/widdershins/bonpo/) - The Bönpo: Pre Buddhist Culture of Tibet Bon, is a Tibetan religion. Its relationship to Tibetan Buddhism has been a subject of debate. Early Western studies used the word to refer to the pre-Buddhist religion over which Buddhism triumphed. Hoffmann’s study of Bon characterized this religion as animism and shamanism, with influence from Gnosticism, Shaivism,
- [words of love](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/words-of-love/) - I don’t believe in words of love, for these may flow more from above, as rivers run when rains have reached the ground. Who knows the thought inside the heart, and who can see into the night, where terror and betrayals are all found. Desire that would soon consume, or violate, stretch out and loom,
- [calx](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/2-03b/calx/) - Calx Calx chalk (n.) Old English cealc "chalk, soft white limestone; lime, plaster; pebble," a West Germanic borrowing from Latin calx (2) "limestone, lime (crushed limestone), small stone," from Greek khalix "small pebble," calculus (n.) mathematical method of treating problems by the use of a system of algebraic notation, 1660s, from Latin calculus "reckoning, account,"
- [Books on Sacred Sexuality](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/books-on-sacred-sexuality/) - Some Books on Sacred and Conscious Sexuality The books listed and reviewed here are not nearly complete. Some books are specialist readings and academic, others are more general. There are now hundreds of books claiming to give you the miracle tools to happy relationships, fantastic sex or Tantric bliss. Most of them are rubbish. Even
- [jim fidelity](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/jim-fidelity/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qej13jdpN5Y&app=desktop
- [James Hillman: Betrayal](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/james-hillman-betrayal/) - This essay is available in James Hillman, ‘Senex and Puer: Betrayal’ p210. Spring Publications, Connecticut. James Hillman: Betrayal There is a Jewish story, an ordinary Jewish Joke. It runs like this: A father was teaching his little son to be less afraid, to have more courage, by having him jump down the stairs. He placed
- [jung on death](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/jung-on-death/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOxlZm2AU4o
- [pantimes4](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-4/) - The Entrance is the Exit: Understanding The Threshold Hello April Artists and Autum Auteurs, Last PanTimes, we spoke a little about being ‘in’ and what going in and staying in might mean for the soul and the journey of consciousness. Still in lockdown mode, we address another aspect of turning inwards, and that is the
- [pantimes3](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes3/) - Staying In: Confinement and Containment The previous talk, 'The 10 Plagues, Bondage, Freedom, Prayer, and Resurrection’ was intentionally dense, to correspond to the intensity of the arrival of holy days, and the weight of almost global lockdown. Like a healing soup with lots of plump matzah balls. For this talk, we slow down, sip,
- [pantimes2](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes2/) - Pesach and Easter: Plagues and Redemption From the second PanTimes talk on 08 April: Hello Marvels of Matzah and Heroes of the Host, Wednesday night was the start of the Jewish festival of Passover, Pesach, and Friday saw the start of the Christian festival of Easter. In keeping with the spirit of these times, both
- [pantime recordings](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantime-recordings/) - PanTime Recordings We’re pleased to be able to offer the recordings of our forest-side talks. You can see the history and themes of the previous PanTimes talks here. Each talk is an hour and there is enough in each one to allow you inspiration and imagination. If you would like to watch those talks again,
- [Pantimes 2406](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/pan-time-talks/pantimes-2406/) - Luckier Than Angels: Finding the Fern Flower Gods willing, we resume our new series starting from Wednesday July 01 2020, at 12h00 SAST, as previously. In the meanwhile, here is something to entertain. “The Kashubians, a Balto-Slavic people still living in parts of Poland, tell of the mysterious Flower of the Fern. It is, they say,
- [james hillman on soul character and calling](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/hillman-on-calling/) - ‘I don’t think anything changes until ideas change.. We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?" We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we
- [ABOUT TAMBOO](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/) - Tamboo Academy covers training and practices in physical and sexual health, intimacy, relationships, creativity, psychotherapy and spiritual evolution.
- [jh Soul and Money](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/article-hillman-a-contribution-to-soul-and-money/) - james hillman, the archetypal view of money, matter soul and religion.
- [jung on mescaline](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/jung-on-mescaline/) - Carl Jung on Pyschedelics To A. M. Hubbard Dear Sir, 15 February 1955 Thank you for your kind invitation to contribute to your mescalin scheme. Thirty years ago I became acquainted with Dr. Prinzhom’s mescalin experiments and thus I had ample opportunity to learn about the effects of the drug as well as about the
- [Jung on God](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/jung-on-god/) - Jung: I do not believe, I know. In an interview in 1959, when Jung was in his 80’s, he was asked the question if he believed in God. Famously, he replied that he did not ‘believe’, he “knew’. This led to a predictable outcry in the media and necessitated a written response. It is worth reading
- [thyrsus](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/thyrsus-2/) - The thyrsus is an essential part of Dionysian costume and has several layers of symbolic significance. It is a tall rod that maenads (bacchae) and satyrs hold in one hand, usually made from fennel, wrapped with ivy and topped off with a pine cone. The thyrsus is a remarkable piece of equipment: when granted Dionysian
- [Sappho's Thiasos](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/sapphos-thiasos/) - Sappho was a renowned woman lyric poet in ancient Greece, who established her community on the island of Lesbos in the 6th Century BCE. These thiasoi were communities of women.. They were not simply 'finishing-schools for young ladies', where purely spiritual loves flourished between the girls. The thiasoi were something different and more complex. They were groups with their
- [what joy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/what-joy/) - what joy does the wind that does not bend the long grass make flowers dance giddy to their gods feel the feathers of a thrush touch one against and surrendered each to the other without abandon and embrace how would we know where we begin and who could measure death imagined as the sound of
- [when i die](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/when-i-die/) - When I die I want your hands on my eyes: I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me one more time to feel the smoothness that changed my destiny. I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep, I want for your ears to
- [The Fool & Zero](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/the-fool/) - To be a fool takes talent, courage, application and good fortune. A great fool is anything but stupid. "So by sitting and meditating we acknowledge that we are fools, which is an extraordinarily powerful and necessary measure. We begin as fools." Chogyam Trungpa The Myth of Freedom In the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, the zero card, The
- [cogito](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/cogito/) - cogito (usually 'the cogito') The principle of establishing the existence of a being from the fact of its thinking or awareness.1 Descartes' famous phrase is 'cogito ergo sum'. "This proposition became a fundamental element of Western philosophy, as it purported to form a secure foundation for knowledge in the face of radical doubt. While other knowledge
- [The Practice of Therapy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/individual-psychological-therapy/therapy-2/) - The Practice of Therapy It would be difficult to imagine a better or more succinct explanation of the structure and intent of depth psychotherapy than the one that Hillman offers: 'Classical analysis has been defined as "a course of treatment in an atmosphere of sympathy and confidence of one person by another person for a
- [Individual Therapy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/individual-psychological-therapy/) - Depth Therapy Individual Psychological Therapy is a treatment practice that addresses various concerns and ailments. These include any illnesses and all physical or emotional pathologies (whether these have an organic or a psychological basis), all sexual, relationship and intimacy issues (including loss of desire or function, paraphilia, sexual abuse and behavioural difficulties), abandonment and betrayal, stress, anxiety and depressions, addictions (including
- [tamboo means](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/tamboo-means/) - tamboo means 'tamboo' means something that is rare, precious and valuable. The word was used in the late 19th century by the Xhosa people of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was recorded that, from the middle of the 19th century, glass beads and other items were traded by the earliest European settlers in exchange
- [Intensive Therapy and Convalescent Retreat](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/intensive-individual-therapy/) - Intensive Therapy and Convalescent Retreat Intensive Individual Therapy is offered to anyone, especially for those from other areas or overseas, who wish to address their issues in an uninterrupted fashion over several days.These programmes are residential in Knysna and include comfortable accommodation and delicious full-board meals, as well as structured study, rest, recreation and exercise routines,
- [Hillman on Dionysian therapy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/hillman-on-dionysian-therapy/) - James Hillman The Possibility and Necessity of a Dionysian Psychology 'We have begun to move toward the end of analysis by ‘unthinking’, first, what was taken for granted about eros in analysis, then the language that has hurt the imagination, and finally that which has hitherto (and for reasons we have presented) been considered –
- [rh forgive 10](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-10/) - It's all God. Even the hidden stuff. This is the same point made above by R Ginsburgh, “All reality is simply He Himself.” From this vantage point, we could even suggest that the offended person’s unconscious ‘need’ preceded the course of action and required an offender to appear as agent, ultimately to bring both to
- [rh forgive 4](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-4/) - Sins committed by one person against another person “God’s forgiveness, however extensive, only encompasses those sins which man commits directly against Him, “bein adam la-Makom“; Those sins in which an injury is caused to one’s fellow man, “bein adam le-ḥavero” are not forgiven until the injured party has himself forgiven the perpetrator. Hence the custom
- [rh forgive 3](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-3/) - Sins committed by a person against God “The theme of God’s forgiveness for man’s sins is recurrent in talmudic and midrashic literature and reappears in later rabbinic writings and the synagogue liturgy. Its main theological purport is to counterbalance, and indeed outweigh, the strongly entrenched rabbinic belief in the inevitable punishment of sin. …Only the
- [rh forgive 2](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/forgive-and-remember/rh-forgive-2/) - Washing away Sins: Forgiveness, Sacrifice and Cleansing. “The biblical concept of forgiveness presumes, in its oldest strata, that sin is a malefic force that adheres to the sinner, and that forgiveness is the divine means for removing it. The vocabulary of forgiveness stems from the terminology of cleansing. e.g., tiher ("purify"; Jer. 33:8); maḥah ("wipe"; lsa. 43:25);
- [Tamboo and Kadeisha](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/tamboo-and-kadeisha/) - The Tamboo Academy covers a wide range of training and practices in physical well-being, sexual health, ecological and personal growth, intimacy and relationships, self-expression and creativity, psychotherapeutic development and spiritual evolution. Tamboo trains individuals and provides access to teachers who are experienced in many areas essential to human development and fulfilment. There are several interdependant
- [impossible love](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/impossible-love/) - The problem, you will agree, is that it's 'impossible'.. Hillman gives examples.. embarrassing situations, awkward connections, threesomes, the most usual triangle problem, no resolve is possible on this plane.. The point, as he carefully adumbrates in Myth of Analysis, is to lead to a love of and opening to images and integrating new material.. living
- [the magic wand](http://www.tamboo.co.za/thiasos/thyrsus/) - The Magic Wand The thyrsus is an essential part of Dionysian costume and has several layers of symbolic significance. A thyrsus is a wand or staff of giant fennel covered with vines and leaves, sometimes wound with ribbons (taeniae) and topped with a pine cone or a bunch of vine-leaves. It was a sacred instrument associated
- [pan and panic](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/pan-and-panic/) - Pan and Panic: Watch This Space There it was, on the TV, on Al Jazeera. I get their version of the news and documentaries for free. If the IMF oligarchs who run Europe and President o’Bummer want me to watch their version of reality, BBC and CNN should make themselves available. What I saw was
- [confession: ain't everybody got ptsd?](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/images-of-therapeia/pan-and-panic/confession-aint-everybody-got-ptsd/) - Confession is not Art. "I suffer from PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder]. I have never told anyone before, so here we are.. I have been searching for ways to heal myself, and I have found that kindness is the best way." Performer Lady Gaga speaking to homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex youths (LGBTI) in
- [Kadeisha 3](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-3/) - Kadeisha 3 Sexual Imagination and the Deepening of Erotic Practice (pt 1): TRANSMISSION OF THE SACRED ARTS (pt2): BUILDING THE TEMPLE For students who have already completed their basic studies and who now wish to deepen their understanding and practice. Primarily for couples and dedicated partners, these workshops focus specifically on advanced practical training and techniques. Advanced
- [KABBALAH](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/) - Our soul is the mediator between the divine and the human dimensions of our being. Learning to develop and deepen the dialogue with our soul and our connection with the sacred takes knowledge, skill, application and a love for the images that are released. In this way, we learn to live a meaningful and nourishing
- [calendar 2019 cape town](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/cal-2019-cape-town/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops Cape Town 2019 Calendar Courses and workshops are offered in Knysna, Cape Town, Johannesburg and elsewhere. Please refer to the main 2019 calendar for workshops in Knysna The Women’s Dream Circle, and The Men’s Table Interactive Groups are formed by a core group, usually between 6 and 10 members, who meet as
- [Proving God](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/) - Faith and Reason: Proving God Exists. Rosh Hashanah 2019/5780 A philosopher was arguing with a respected rabbi about the existence of G-d. The philosopher felt that although there were persuasive arguments proving G-d’s existence, there were many equally persuasive one disproving His existence. After a time, the philosopher grew exasperated. “You are a wise man’
- [proving 1](http://www.tamboo.co.za/kabbalah/proving-god/proving-1/) - [1]Simon Jaconson, Towards a Meaningful Life; The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersonp228. Perennial Currents/ HarperCollins, New York, 2004.
- [if i were to stop](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/if-i-were-to-stop/) - If I were to stop My love I'm sad to say That I don't care To step inside the world Out there so much Anymore. In here is a quieter Contemplative life A hermit crab Who talks with gods Alongside the animals Writing at the altar Reading holi texts Dreaming while awake And I wouldn't
- [in the morning](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/in-the-morning-3/) - in the morning I will look for you as the sky lights and you walk in my direction you will be shining and carrying the stars in your heart and the moon in your belly swollen by our love and creation we will enter then the temple and kneel there and offer what we have
- [Divination](http://www.tamboo.co.za/creativity/creativity/divination/) - The freedom to live fully comes from learning to think from the heart. "We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it." Marie-Louise von Franz Divination: The Playful Heart Looking for answers to the important and urgent questions of life is an ancient
- [Healing](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/healers/healing/) - “Healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements in the ego.” C G Jung “Pathology is mythology.” James Hillman The Healers Cycle Exploring the Mythology of Know Thyself The Healers Workshop is part of the A1 Foundation study course and is also open to other individuals who are interested
- [the summer day](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/the-summer-day-2/) - Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is
- [Paper doll](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/paper-doll/) - Paper dolls are figures cut out of paper or thin card, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the doll by paper folding tabs They may be a figure of a person, animal or inanimate object. Paper dolls have been inexpensive children's toys for almost two hundred years. Today, many
- [ShadowPlay](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/psyche/shadowplay/) - ShadowPlay: Conversations with the Body “When I am laid low by misery or depression, symptoms and cravings, I meet the irrefutable evidence of the independence of psychic forces. Something lives in me beyond my own doing. This demon that speaks in passions and dreams and pains will not let go, and I am forced to
- [Alchemy 2](http://www.tamboo.co.za/mysticism/alchemy-the-perversion-of-nature/) - 'Alchemy is matter.. to make soul matter.. to transform our sense of what matters.' James Hillman Alchemy 2: The Perversion of Nature In Alchemy, the transformation of plant material, producing medicines and distilled essences, is called the ‘Lesser Work’. The ‘Greater Work’ in Alchemy is focused on
- [Men's Health / Boy's Pathology](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/an-introduction-to-tantra/mens-health/) - Following their article on Tantra, this letter was sent to Men's Health Magazine on 17 March 2000. It was never published. The Editor, 'Men’s Health', One reason why thousands of men and women support your magazine is the wonderful combination of irreverent humour and sound fact. So it is with some dismay that I read
- [take two](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/take-two/) - Take that night. I was transparent. Glistening. Alive amidst the light and beauty. Everything I was that night was a gift. Knowing the source, I was erotic. My heart beat on my sleeve. My sleeve was desire. I was a present. Thanks, I offer. Now, I say. Here, I am. Make more effort. Radiate. Do
- [SHAMANISM](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/) - Sooner or later on this journey, you will have to make a choice, between living through the intellect or living from the Opened Heart. When we live the Dreamingbody, we never have to fake the Sacred or pretend that the Holy exists. When we truly surrender to Spirit’s way, something happens. The Sacred reveals itself.
- [Kadeisha 4](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-4/) - Kadeisha 4 Transforming the Serpent THIS IS AN ADVANCED PRACTICAL WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES WHO ARE COMMITTED TO A PATH OF CONSCIOUS SEXUALITY. This workshop explores experientially the sustained ecstatic consciousness of sacred sexuality. Couples who have had sufficient training and practice will explore and sustain deep meditative states way beyond genital sex. This is a
- [Relationships and the Self](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/intimacy/relationships/) - "Relationship.. has to do with the exquisitely tuned harmonics between two people who are attempting to become conscious of their personal psychology.. neither is attempting to possess the other, neither wishes to be possessed. The partners do not demand a 'whole' relationship, nor do they seek to be made whole by it; rather they value
- [The Healers Cycle](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/healers/) - "Healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements in the ego." C G Jung "Pathology is mythology." James Hillman The Healers Cycle Exploring the Mythology of Know Thyself The Healers Workshop is part of the A1 Foundation study course and is also open to other individuals who are interested
- [Anima/Animus](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/intimacy/animaanimus/) - ''Every man carries within him the Eternal Image of Woman, an imprint or archetype of all the ancestral impressions ever made by woman. The same is true of woman; she too has her inborn image of Man." C G Jung Art of Intimacy: The Inner Lovers Our capacity to do well in the world and have
- [Core Lie](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/psyche/core-lie/) - “The small world of the child, the family milieu, is the model for the big world. The more intensely the family sets its stamp on the child, the more he will be emotionally inclined, as an adult, to see in the great world his former small world. Of course this must not be taken as
- [Light Frequency](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/one-day-breathwork/light-frequency/) - According to quantum theory, ".. all physical objects are intrinsically ghostly. They exist in a twilight state of all possibilities.. Particles of matter are waves of energy and waves are particles." Peter Coveney. "Frontiers of Complexity." One-Day Breathwork: Living at Light Frequency Light is currently being developed to operate optic and quantum computers. The implications
- [Issues in Therapy](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/issues-in-therapy/) - Issues in the Practice of Therapy (This essay was originally written for and addressed to students at the beginning of their 2nd year of study in the foundation course Overture We need to examine, question and challenge some of the most fundamental ideas that are currently part of the practice of psychotherapy. In conventional therapy, one of
- [One-Day Workshop Analysis](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/one-day-breathwork/one-day-workshop-analysis/) - Workshop Analysis Programme The facilitator’s workshop analysis is an extra day, usually following the three-day workshops, where senior students and therapists sit around, enjoy good food and company and gossip and laugh at what went on at the workshop. More seriously, the purpose is to train you to facilitate workshops and to be better therapists
- [Shaman Sparks](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/shaman-sparks/) - About the Shamanic Experience “The shaman experiences his sickness as a call to destroy this life within himself so as to hear, see, and live it more fully and completely in a higher state of awareness.” Holger Kalweit “..all religions begin as spiritual experiences which then become politicized. Shamanism recalls the democratization of the spiritual
- [ANTHEA HENRY](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/anthea-simoes/) - Anthea Henry Anthea is an experienced Imaginal Therapist, facilitator and teacher. In the usual world, she runs an international research agency and facilitates innovation workshops in the business community, and creative conversations between the worlds of psyche, business and the arts. She has a passion for the fine art and collects unusual works. People have been known to
- [βιβλια](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/) - THE HOLY LONGING Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, Because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, What longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of love nights, Where you were begotten, where you have begotten, A strange feeling comes over you When
- [spirituality and misogyny](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/kadeisha-and-tantra/kt-3/) - Can't live with them.. All spiritual, philosophic and scientific teachings posit, in different ways, that the One True Indivisible Whole Reality is manifest by a constant dynamic and creative tension between two (or sometimes more) intersecting forces or dimensions. Theologically and poetically, these two parts of the one are always described as a 'Masculine' and
- [GARETH PRETORIUS](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/4825-2/) - GARETH PRETORIUS Gareth thinks he grew up in Durban. But he never did. A school play was his Damascene conversion and he took to the dream-space of the stage like a priest to the pulpit. He completed an Honours Degree in Drama and so naturally he became a professional children’s entertainer. He traveled the world,
- [sandstorm](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/sandstorm/) - Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something
- [Rumi A Great Wagon](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/rumi-there-is-a-field/) - When I see your face, the stones start spinning! You appear; all studying wanders. I lose my place. Water turns pearly. Fire dies down and doesn’t destroy. In your presence I don’t want what I thought I wanted, those three little hanging lamps. Inside your face the ancient manuscripts Seem like rusty mirrors. You breathe;
- [Inauthentic Suffering](http://www.tamboo.co.za/advanced-training/inauthentic-suffering/) - “Refusing to become what they could be, and cheating themselves with escapes and excuses, they often go into what Jung calls ‘uneigentlich leiden,’ inauthentic suffering, whining and caviling and boring the gods. Real suffering at least leads to wisdom and deepening. The suffering wrought through chronic addiction to one’s own self-betrayal is merely erosive and
- [Eternal Memory](http://www.tamboo.co.za/the-shamans-journey/eternal-memory/) - "I do not recognize memory in the sense in which you mean it. Whatever we encounter that is great, beautiful, significant, need not be remembered from outside, need not be hunted up and laid hold of as it were. Rather, from the beginning, it must be woven into the fabric of our inmost self, must
- [hestia](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/one-day-breathwork/hestia/) - Hestia: Goddess of the hearth, home, domesticity, family, and the state In Ancient Greek religion, Hestia (Greek: 'hearth' or 'fireside') is a virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family, the home, and the state. In Greek mythology, she is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Hestia received the first
- [in the morning](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/in-the-morning/) - in the morning I will look for you as the sky lights and you walk in my direction you will be shining and carrying the stars in your heart and the moon in your belly, swollen by our love and creation we will enter then the temple and kneel there and offer what we have
- [Therapists & Teachers](http://www.tamboo.co.za/teachers-and-teaching/therapists-teachers/) - The Tamboo Academy is an umbrella organisation that covers a wide range of training and practices in physical well-being, sexual health, ecological and personal growth, intimacy and relationships, self-expression and creativity, psychotherapeutic development and spiritual evolution. Tamboo trains individuals and provides access to teachers who are experienced in many areas essential to human development and
- [focusing](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/one-day-breathwork/focusing/) - Focus From the latin, focus, domestic hearth, fireplace. The goddess Hestia, 'chief of the goddesses', rules the domestic fire. Focus (v) meaning Pay particular attention to. Concentrate. Fix. Pivot. Zero in. Adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly. Cause (one's eyes) to focus. Adjust the focus of (a telescope,
- [my way](http://www.tamboo.co.za/βιβλια/my-way/) - My Way Let me have my fill with you Soak me through like burning sun Race me dry until you’re through Break me into one. Shatter me with light and breath Drown me out with looks and cries That my white bird lands on earth Serpent to the skies.
- [2018 cape town calendar](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2018-cape-town-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops Cape Town 2018 Calendar Courses and workshops are offered in Knysna, Cape Town, Johannesburg and elsewhere. Foundation workshops are entry-level courses suitable for curious beginners and advanced students. Intermediate and Practitioner workshops have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated with *, Intermediate and Practitioner with **. Please refer to the
- [Heart](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/heart/) - "Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way. But no matter how frightening learning is, it is more terrible to think of a man without knowledge. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart?" Carlos Castaneda
- [KADEISHA](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/) - “Sacred sexuality is about recovering our authentic being, which knows bliss beyond mere pleasurable sensations. It is a special form of communication, even communion, that fills us with awe and stillness.. Sacred sex, which is the experience of ecstasy, is the real sexual revolution.” Georg Feuerstein. Kadeisha: The Art of Conscious Loving KADEISHA 1:
- [Bath Food](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/bath-food/) - Bath foods are anything that is small, delicious and moist, especially fruits. These should be peeled and cut into bite-size pieces and placed in an attractive bowl. In winter, try mixing citrus. Oranges, grapefruit and naartjies/mineolas, all segmented or cut. Or pawpaw, pear and apple. In summer months try strawberries or mixed berries. Or different
- [Wind, Breath and Spirit](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/wind-breath-and-spirit/) - The connection between 'breath', 'wind' and 'spirit' is understood as common in many cultures. Several languages connect our personal life-force (spirit or soul) with our breathing and with the movement of air in the world around us. In Chinese the word is 'chi', in Sanskrit, 'prana', in Greek, 'pneuma' and in Hebrew 'ruach'.
- [2017 CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2017-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2017 Calendar Courses and workshops are offered in Knysna, Cape Town, Johannesburg and elsewhere. Foundation workshops are entry-level courses suitable for curious beginners and advanced students. Intermediate and Practitioner workshops have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated with *, Intermediate and Practitioner with **. A1, A3 & A5 all refer to Foundation,
- [2015 CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2015-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2015 Calendar All courses and workshops are residential in Knysna. Foundation courses are entry-level workshops suitable for curious beginners and advanced students. Intermediate and Practitioner courses have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated with *, Intermediate and Practitioner with **. A1, A3 & A5 all refer to Foundation, Initiation and
- [2016 CALENDAR](http://www.tamboo.co.za/calendar/2016-calendar/) - Tamboo Academy & Radiant Images Workshops 2016 Calendar All courses and workshops are residential in Knysna. Foundation courses are entry-level workshops suitable for curious beginners and advanced students. Intermediate and Practitioner courses have entry requirements. Foundation workshops are indicated with *, Intermediate and Practitioner with **. Several Foundation Workshops are facilitated by Tamboo teachers in
- [happy go lucky](http://www.tamboo.co.za/happy-go-lucky/) - how lucky to be living this nowbirth, between the afterlife and beforedeath..
- [Becoming Human](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-academy/becoming-human/) - "So Babuji said, we become human first, with human qualities of compassion, love, trust, faith, mercy, and then only we start developing towards what we call divinization." Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2005", Chapter "Sensitivity", pg. 241, by Revered Chariji
- [Wholeness](http://www.tamboo.co.za/tamboo-and-kadeisha/wisdom-and-maddness/wholeness/) - The words 'heal', 'health', 'whole' and 'holy' are all connected in English. [ref: hale (1), whole, heal, hail, hallow, holiday (=holy day), holy. The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology. Walter Skeat. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. UK. 1993.]
- [Depression](http://www.tamboo.co.za/workshops/drugs-and-altered-consciousness/depression/) - 'Depression: A psychological state characterised by a lack of energy. Energy not available to consciousness does not simply vanish. It regresses and stirs up unconscious contents (fantasies, memories, wishes etc.) that for the sake of psychological health need to brought to light and examined.. Depression is not necessarily pathological. It often foreshadows a renewal of
- [Quiet Music](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/quiet-music/) - If you choose to use external music, which is not really required, put on some fine, complex gentle music in another room, loud enough to only just hear in the closed bathroom, not too loud to dominate the sounds of splashing, lathering, eroticised bodies. ‘New Age’ or meditation music or artists like Deuter, Kitaro, Mozart,
- [Containers](http://www.tamboo.co.za/conscious-loving/ritual-bathing/containers/) - For most ritual work, ceramic or glass is best aesthetically and energetically, but only if there is a stable place to put the vessel. Things might get a bit wild later, so avoid possible breakages in advance. Metal or plastic will do just fine, especially if you use a vessel that was newly bought specifically