Virginia Beane Rutter
The Mask of Dionysus: Possession and Healing
October 17-18, 2003

 

OFJ Library Books and Articles by Virginia Beane Rutter

Embracing Persephone: How to Be the Mother You Want for the Daughter You Cherish (2000)
Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters (1996)
Woman Changing Woman: Feminine Psychology Re-Conceived Through Myth and Experience (1994)
Radio Interview with Virginia Beane Rutter http://www.womensradio.com/reallife/family/familyroom.htm

OFJ Audio Tape Recommendations

#821    Rutter, Virginia Beane. The Eleusinian Mysteries: Vision into the Abyss of the Seed, 2 tapes (11/9/01)
#428    Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Dionysus: Ecstatic God - Archetype of the Conflicted Man, 2 tapes
#98     Bradway, Katherine. Pompeii’s Villa of Mysteries, 1 tape (12/81)
#203    Johnson, Robert. Dionysus, the Forgotten God, 2 tapes
#693    San Roque, Craig. Dead Drunk, Good God: The Myth of Dionysus, 3 tapes (11/14/98)

Additional Recommendations

Baan, N. (1998) Semele's Tale. Parabola, 23 (2), 36-38
Bradway, K. (1982) Villa of Mysteries: Pompeii Initiation Rites of Women.
Downing, C. (1984) Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth. In J. Hillman (Ed.), Facing the Gods, pp135-149
Fierz-David, L. (1988) Women's Dionysian Initiation: The Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii
Jung, C.G. and Kerényi, K.(1963) Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis.
Kerényi, K. (1991) Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter.
Kerényi, K. (1996) Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life .

Koettel, Robert C. Archetypal Analysis of the Myth of Dionysus.
http://www.nssa.us/nssajrnl/19-1/htm/10/10.htm
Otto, W. F. (1993) Dionysus: Myth and Cult
Paris, G. (1991) Pagan Graces: Dionysos, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in Daily Life.
Pomeroy, S. (1965) Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves.
Whitmont, E. (1991) The Symbolic Quest.