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The Practice of Enchantment: MythBlast Essays, 2020-2024 by Joanna Gardner, PhD, is a new book published by the Joseph Campbell Foundation. A collection of essays inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell and originally published in the Foundation’s popular MythBlasts series, this volume demonstrates that applying Campbell’s ideas to the challenges of life can serve as a way to see the world anew and engage in an ever-unfolding practice of cultivating enchantment.
Dr. Gardner brings her expertise as a mythologist, writer, and teacher to these elegant essays, which explore myth as it intersects with life and creativity.
The Practice of Enchantment: MythBlast Essays, 2020-2024
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Quotes from the book
“When I experience my life as a small manifestation of repeating mythic motifs, I take things less personally. I feel like I’m participating in something beyond myself. I see past the threshold guardians of fear and desire… and into the charmed garden, a mythic metaphor for the mystery, the unknown and unknowable source of beauty from which the cosmos and I arise. Following myth into the mystery is one way I can practice enchantment.”
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“Dreams arrive in our consciousness in much the same way as creative breakthroughs: like surprise guests bearing gifts. Myths, too, come into being through creativity. Myth and dream arise from the same source, the same font of imagination from which all creativity flows.”
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“Why not set aside self-doubt and self-consciousness? Why not sing with everything you have and everything you are, as though summoning the sun’s fire to earth?”
