MythBlast | An Impossible Thanksgiving: Story of the Birds and Beasts and the Son of Adam,
contributed by Norland Tellez.
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale—as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source
MythBlast | Voicing Joseph Campbell: How His Story Becomes Our Own,
contributed by Neora Myrow.
Dancing With The Dragon from our Campbell in Culture area.
My magnificent master and great friend of many years ago, Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943), had a saying: “The best things can’t be told: the second best are misunderstood.” The second best are misunderstood because, as metaphors poetically of what cannot be told, they are misread prosaically as referring to tangible facts.
MythBlast | Cultivating Gratitude through the Transcendent Function,
contributed by Craig Deininger.
A Blissful Journey from our Campbell in Culture area.
Our outward-oriented consciousness, addressed to the demands of the day, may lose touch with these inward forces; and the myths, states Jung, when correctly read, are the means to bring us back in touch.
MythBlast | The Birth of Tenderness,
contributed by Bradley Olson.
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Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell – A Workshop with Dennis Patrick Slattery from the Mythological Resources Database
Mythologies present games to play: how to make believe you’re doing thus and so. Ultimately, through the game, you experience that positive thing which is the experience of being-in-being, of living meaningfully. That’s the first function of a mythology, to evoke in the individual a sense of grateful affirmative awe before the monstrous mystery that is existence.