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2007/09/13

mary barnes: Two accounts of a Journey thru Madness

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Here is the great lady in her old age. Yes, reading her back then _ 70s _ saved me many nights of madness . Believing there was a way out. And speaking about to David. Yes, those day years go go go go ago.


( links to the website of her work and paintings here _)


I dont even remember how many times I read her book back in the old days. Believing it would, work. thinking I was crazy I wasnt .


The King and the Donkey--- this heroic lady was a hero a model a giant pushing through dark leaves blinding jungle. came thru a flying artist of heart and soul


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MARY EDITH BARNES
9 February 1923 - 29 June 2001
Nurse, Madwoman, Explorer of the Underworld, Celebrant of Death and Rebirth, Member of Kingsley Hall Community, Artist, Writer, Healer, Catholic mystic, Visionary




I dont quite see her the same way as I did then nor do I see her 'solution' the journey in regression back to wholeness as necessarily the only way by way of restoring a broken and fragmented self. and that's another story isn't it?

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