This piece stems from my own experience of a threshold consciousness that followed life-or-death surgery in 2015, when surgeons had informed me that I had only 2 days to live and offered me 2 days palliative care as an alternative choice. My survival of the surgery together with the experience of that threshold consciousness led me to a re-appraisal of my own practice in Dramatherapy. Out of my...
This chapter considers the contemporary relevance of the ideas of Owen Barfield to the praxis of Sesame dramatherapy. An oft-forgotten member of the Oxford Inklings, Barfield had a profound influence on the work of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien, and thereby on mythopoetic fantasy literature in the English-speaking world. Comparable to individuation, a future form of participation would not be a...