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Saturday, January 9, 2010 9:00 - 2 Comments

“Demystifying Myth” and The Power of Myth to Bind and to Free pt. 1

Dreams are private myths, myths are public dreams

Joseph Campbell

The Mythic Realm: Our World Symbolically Rendered

By demystification I mean too say… shed some clarity on a subject not well understood in a culture that has become mythically illiterate.

My goal is also to emphasize the need for a new and overarching myth or story. A story that will serve us as we encounter a time period unlike any we’ve encountered before. There are millions of people around the world who are ready to embrace a greater vision of what it means to be a human society—a global humanity.

Those of us ready for something greater signify the critical mass needed to begin coalescing around a story broad enough to unite all who dream and wish to work for a better world. A world built on cooperation. I will use the terms myth and story interchangeably.

Joseph Campbell was emphatic about the planetary myth—the story of humanity as a whole. His deep knowledge of the mythic realm compelled him to assert that the future of humanity’s socio-cultural evolution lay with a new story capable of accounting for everything relevant to a story relating everyone to everybody else and everyone to the entirety of the planet. The world’s current dominant story system thrives by creating divisions and coercing others to its point of view. Continue…