A Coronavirus Response Plan: The Mythic, The Scary & The Healing

Course Description

Descending into a dark night of the soul seems to serve as a metaphor for the current state of collective humanity. We find ourselves in a completely new time. And we are dealing with a pandemic which is having widespread consequences, causing severe anxiety, panic, isolation, illness and death.

In this course, three of the world’s most respected psychologists are offering a more soulful perspective. Learn to face and be with what is currently our new reality.

Michael Meade explores mythological stories that describe similar times and considers how – by exploring those – we may learn more about the archetypal territory we find ourselves in now.

Then we have James Hollis, providing us with practical perspectives and tools to reframe our fears.

Robert Bosnak combines neuroscience and imagination to provide a recipe to create what he calls “a neuro-imaginal vaccine”. He explores the question ‘how can we trigger an innate healing response while the world waits for an external vaccine to be developed?’.

This course is ideal if

• You are interested in a depth response to the global pandemic for yourself, your loved ones, your community or your colleagues/employees.
• You are looking for grounded perspectives and practical tools to help manage fear and anxiety during these times.
• You are looking for techniques that can help stimulate and boost the immune system.
• You would like to understand how mythological stories can be a navigational tool to deal with the times we find ourselves in.

Course Overview

Class 1. Michael Meade – Mythic Territory

At some deep level, it has become necessary for collective humanity to gain a more conscious awareness of the psychological fact that we are all in this together. We are in a collective rite of passage that requires a wide scale awakening to the interconnectedness of all of life. This is not just the proper response to the coronavirus pandemic; it is also the underlying message found on most spiritual paths and in many religions.

Class 2: James Hollis – Dwelling in Dismal Days: Reframing Our Fears

While the capacity to feel fear serves our evolutionary survival, we all know fear can come to dominate our lives and diminish them. In this class, James Hollis will not be telling you what to do with your life, nor how to banish fear. Rather, he will guide you to reframe the role Fear may play in our lives and to recover a bit of that lost sovereignty.

Class 3: Robert Bosnak – A Neuro-imaginal vaccine

The word imaginal means imagination-perceived-as-reality by the brain. A vaccine is based on the homeopathic principle: if you dilute poison it creates remedy. That’s why the word pharmacon (from which we have the word pharmacy) means both poison and remedy. A usual vaccine takes a signal part of a virus or bacteria that in itself does not cause illness. Yet, it can signal to the immune system to create appropriate antibodies. The brain cannot differentiate between dream-image and a physical environment. The nervous system responds virtually identically to actual environment and dream environment. It has been proven by the medically recognized field of psychoneuroimmunology that the nervous system directly connects to the immune system, and that it should be considered as a single system.

By the end of this course you will

• Have practical tools and perspectives to better deal with the anxiety that this time creates.
• Have a practical way to stimulate your immune system.
• Have a more grounded perspective on the mythological stories that share the experience of our current Zeitgeist.