Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
  • Untitled
  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Schedule and Links
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
    • The Way of the Hermit >
      • Day One: Pythagoras and Archetypes
      • Day Two: From the Desert to the Skelligs
      • Day Three: Hildegard, Julian and Francis
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
  • Coaching
  • About


The Mystic Path and Poetry  of T.S. Eliot
Tuesdays, 10:30 - Noon
 January 12- February 16, 2021


            A six week course on the greatest poetic masterpiece of the 20th century - and how it was inspired by Beethoven's late string quartets. We will explore the cross-cultural mystical inspiration Eliot drew from Dante, Virgil,  the Upanishads and Bhaghavad Gita, St. John of the Cross and Julian of Norwich as well as discover the symbolic and structural parallels with Beethoven's astonishing Quartet in Op. 132 in A Minor- the piece that led Eliot through his darkest days of despair into a new language of hope and possibility.

We shall not cease from exploration 
And the end of all our exploring 
Will be to arrive where we started 
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for 
But heard, half heard, in the stillness
Between the two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

-T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding", V

 Register by clicking here through Santa Sabina Retreat Center
Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Untitled
  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Schedule and Links
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
    • The Way of the Hermit >
      • Day One: Pythagoras and Archetypes
      • Day Two: From the Desert to the Skelligs
      • Day Three: Hildegard, Julian and Francis
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
  • Coaching
  • About