Tagged with Mythology

Along with being a vocation that is incredibly harsh the moment you get past the point where it is "cool" to say you're an artist, being an artist can actually be incredibly dangerous. But there is no danger that can or should put you off your goal. (more)

Every culture has a Story of the People to give meaning to the world. We are entering a new phase in the dissolution of our Story and of the edifice of civilization built on top of it. We do not have a new story yet. Here and there we see patterns emerging, but the new mythos has not yet emerged. We will abide for a time in the space between stories. (more)

The roots and branches of the world tree form topographically a torus, a kind of donut, an explosion which turns continuously through itself, and whose end is in its origin. The sap moves from center to circumference and then back again to center. The whole of the tree is contained within one seed. In that seed is the city from which we set forth long ago. (more)

With no visceral rites of passage to provide a spiritual transition into adulthood, a certain portion of American youth reach for the powerful yet ultimately impoverished substitute of the cinema. Star Wars dances on the line between gaudy commercial spectacle and indispensable world-explaining myth. (more)

The Irish philosopher, poet and shaman John Moriarty used Irish myths to illustrate his belief that there has been a schism between what we as humans instinctively are and what we have become and how we choose to live. He became a character living in a parallel Ireland called Fódhla, lamenting the wrong turn that the Western world has taken.
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The prophecy of the Eagle and Condor, which is common to several traditional indigenous cultures of North, Central, and South America, points to a time when humans face the evolutionary choice of moving into symbiotic presence within the more-than-human world or destroying the planet.  (more)

We are all in the grip of a myth. We are all inhabiting an imaginative structure determined by the perspective and set of ideas we used to call a god. Proclus thought that myths are composed by the daimons and that the daimons shape our lives. (more)

Susan Joy Rennison is a geophysics lecturer specializing in the emerging science of space weather. In this interview she discusses recent discoveries in astrophysics and the plasma-electrical universe, mythology, politics, and the energy grid. (more)

In Greek mythology the way to invoke a bad fate is to show hubris. Modern hubris is nothing more than investing too much energy into unexplored assumptions. The more we get to know our assumptions the more that fate, and time and space itself, become malleable. The work of creation becomes cooperative.The word becomes flesh. (more)

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Consciousness is a continuous process of unfolding, punctuated by dislocations and reunions; the Osiris myth marks many of the key points in this evolution. Indeed, it is a priceless alchemical myth of existence given to us by nature and sculpted by humankind. (more)

Attending to one's dreams, waking visions, and synchronicities is the foundation of shamanic consciousness, and was an integral component of the ancient world, especially through the dream healing practices related to the Greek god of healing, Asclepius, known in the heavens as Ophiuchus. (more)

Thousands of years ago, humanity planted three seeds, three transmissions, from the past to the future, three ways of preserving and transmitting the truth of the world, the self, and how to be human. Now these seeds are sprouting. Who is ready to receive the fruits?   (more)

Life is a dream you won't remember upon awakening, and myth is that dream retold. We transmit our living mythologies to each other through our art, but equally so through our impact upon one another in our day-to-day lives. (more)