Week 3: 1
The Storied Self:
Cheryl Strayed, Wild

Cheryl Strayed, Wild  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_QnNQ__OM

• Who is Cheryl Strayed? What is her story of Religion, Love, and Death?
• Hartford Courant Interview
• Can there be a spiritual journey without religion? 
• What is the relation between the physical, emotional, and spiritual?
• What is the relation between mind, heart, body, and spirit? (breakout rooms)
• The Bridge of the Gods  http://www.cascadelocks.com/about-cascade-locks/bridge-of-the-gods/

• What are the kinds of death she endures? What are the kinds of love she experiences?
• What kind of journey is she on?
• What kind of present awareness (past-present-future) does she come to?
• How does she rewrite her storied self (past present future)?
• Does she write a Counter-Story? In relation to what Master Narrative?

• Is there a religious experience involved, a depth dimension to her journey?
• Pilgrimage and Mystical Experience: Victor and Edith Turner:
  
• "Pilgrimage may be thought of as extroverted mysticism, just as mysticism is introverted pilgrimage. The pilgrim physically traverses the mystical way; the mystic sets forth on an interior spiritual pilgrimage" (33).
  Turner, Victor and Edith Turner. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives. NY: Columbia University Press, 1995.