The imagination is born in stages. In ‘The Writer’s Passage’ we follow these stages through a living encounter with the great myths and stories of the world. We will re-charge our potential by trying on the soul-skin of different ages, cultures and personalities.

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Every lesson is an invocation of the poetic, a way to connect with what was most creative in the history of humankind. The shift in perspective demanded by such exercises is, in itself, deeply liberating. The writer’s scope is enlarged by merely trying on the soul-skin of a different time, culture and personality— to serenely reformulate the eightfold path of the Buddha or passionately hurl oneself into the battle fury of the Viking; to tangle with the verbal eroticism of Sappho or the righteous passion of the prophets. To become the pure Parzival of the medieval epics and then the devil in Goethe’s Faust is an unmatched gymnastic for the creative writer.

 

​As a writer you will be led, step by step, to write out of inner pictures. You will begin to fathom the vast biography of the poetic and experience how it is like a living being that wants to continue its creative life through you.​