Diana Durham - writer, poet, playwright
If we want whole outcomes, we must have whole people. Encoded in myth and archetype is a pattern about ourselves. The pattern is essentially that our identity is two-fold. We have a personality, shaped by DNA, culture, experience, and we also draw on a flow of self that is unconditioned and emergent. When the young knight Perceval comes upon the grail, it is symbolizing the moment when we touch into the power of this inner flow. Feeling at ease with this deeper aspect of ourselves is like a return to mystery. The return to an ability to move in and out of the cloud of our own future potential. Perceval’s name can be read as meaning ‘to pierce the veil’. And so the quest becomes our own movement beyond the broken shapes inherited from an over-reductive psychological realism, to access the renewing flow of our creativity.
"The Grail Myth is probably the last great offering of the collective unconscious and is the most pertinent of all its treasures. We are in the midst of this great story, all of us agonizing from the fisher king wound, driven to find the Grail Castle, tugging at the sword maddeningly stuck in the stone. The find the modern relevance of this story is to set one instantly on his own intimate search.
Diana Durham does masterful work in bringing this jewel of the western world into just such relevance; she makes it possible to begin ones own grail quest in terms understandable for our present mentality."
- Robert A Johnson D. Hum
Author of He, She, Inner Work, We, Owning Your Own Shadow
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'If we pierce that veil we open the way between the inner realm of Avalon and the outer world, and the joining of these worlds is every journey's end! '
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The insights into her own psyche while living in intentional community during the 1980's grew into the non-fiction book 'The Return of King Arthur: finishing the quest for wholeness, inner strength and self-knowledge' (Tarcher Penguin USA). Since its publication in 2004 Diana has presented the stories of King Arthur and the Grail Quest to business executives, healing professionals, young people and women's groups.
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The Art of Wholeness
Three large oak trees walking down the hill
at sunset, sunrise, through the greys and golds
of days, they edge the meaning of fields
shore up the sky, and slowly let unfold
the valley view. So sublime and easy
so sailing and dark and tall, they never
arrive where they are going, but in their
towering presence all is already
become and everywhere and they are part
of a landscape, and yet they are the art
of wholeness, hologram, roots, branches, life
breaking robustly out of symbol, they are rife
with coherence, leaves, acorns to scatter
then bare to hold the shape of winter.
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