Cosmic Play

Several volumes of myths were consulted on the different gods involved in various aspects of play—Burkert (1985), Guthrie (1955), Downing

Not much has been written about Jung’s Bollingen stone. Jung himself refers to the stone in his autobiography (Jung, 1961/1989) and in his l

The classic work on Dionysus by Walter Otto (1965), was examined as well Kerényi (1976/1996) and more recent works by Downing (1993) and Par

Jung’s concept of archetypes as having two different poles—instinct (red) and image (blue) combine in the color purple and also in play.

Tricksters come in all different shapes and sizes. I not only looked at Jung’s article on the trickster (Jung, 1954/1990) but also Tarnas’s

M. Fox, (2002), Myers (1999), and H. Gardner (1993) explore the soul and anatomy of creativity, while von Franz (1978) explicates the nature

Grof (1998a, 2000a, 2000b) also explicates the transpersonal or archetypal nature of the birth process which is seen in Eliade’s (1954/1991b

Swimme (2001) discusses play as being one of the primary qualities and energies of the universe in addition to creativity, allurement and en

In an effort to situate my dissertation in the current play research, I reviewed developmental, evolutionary, and cultural theories of play

Because play is tricky, many categories overlap and lead into each other. Sometimes a category is betwixt and between other categories.