Category Archives: Rites of Passage

More Haruki Murakami in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The fol­low­ing is more from Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Run­ning:
It might be a lit­tle silly for some­one get­ting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly: I’m the kind of per­son who likes to be …

September 20, 2009 – 9:41 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Haruki Murakami, Health, Mental Exercise, Professionalism, Rites of Passage, Running, Toxin, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Writing | Tagged | Comments (0)

Joseph Campbell: the Malekula passage to the Land of the Dead

The fol­low­ing excerpts are from Joseph Campbell’s The Masks of God, Vol­ume 1: Prim­i­tive Mythol­ogy.
In a myth of the Melane­sian island of Malekula in the New Hebrides, which describes the dan­gers of the way to the Land of the Dead, it is told that when the soul has been car­ried on a wind across the …

September 1, 2009 – 8:23 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Joseph Campbell, Mazes, Rites of Passage | Comments (0)