INVISIBLE COLLEGE
presents
DOG DAYS
death, afterlife, & the limits of civilization
an 8/8 master class
In this 3-hour activation, we will explore the mythopoetics of the binary star Sirius, delving into how “man’s best friend” figures in inherited concepts of freedom, fidelity, death, afterlife, intuition, and poetic intensity.
Your registration grants you immediate complimentary access to Invisible College’s Gnostic Summer video collection, as well as the Inanna collection, over 34 hours of content– a $222 value. This 3-hour experience is structured for alignment, attunement, and imaginal activation.
Core texts:
“Bisclavret” (12th Century), Marie de France
“The Wolf and the Dog” (6th Century BCE/17th Century CE), Aesop / Jean de la Fontaine
Supplementary:
“Bright star would I were steadfast as thou art” (19th Century), John Keats
Afterglow (21st Century), Eileen Myles
Love is a Dog From Hell (20th Century), Charles Bukowski
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (20th Century), Dylan Thomas
The Master and Margarita (20th Century), Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of a Dog (20th Century), Mikhail Bulgakov
Flush: A Biography (20th Century), Virginia Woolf
(&c…)
Friday August 8 at Noon Eastern
On Zoom with Infinite Replay
Less about having a dog than being a dog. Though having a dog doesn’t preclude being a dog, talking to a dog, being a talking dog, comprehending the Dogstar’s siblinglike or cousinlike affinities with our sun, or deeply comprehending the imagery in the tarot’s canonical Moon cards.
The purpose of our study is to activate intuition.
Just who was civilization meant to be for and what do we understand civilization to mean these days? What do we give up when we agree to domestication? Why is the wolf (always?) hungry? What does it mean to shine while chained? What do we agree to conceal when we “sign” the social contract, and what kinds of performance do we consent to? What becomes of love– erotic love, committed partnership, filial piety– in the Uranus in Gemini frequency? What does it mean to be wild in the twenty-first century, and what WILL wildness; wilderness come to mean?
And so on…
Love, Ariana
Ariana on her close encounter with a “conscious” star:
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