The mythic life leads me into deeper knowledge of myself

The motive for engaging in life on mythic terms is the Utter Self. It's the self we dream about, the one that is free and confident in all situations, even in failure. The Utter Self is what lies beyond our limitations, it's the prize for engaging and enduring those limitations with courage and perseverance. It is our potential unlocked. It treats everyone with respect, kindness and forgiveness because that's how it treats itself.

If we live mythically we will always be setting off on new adventures, constantly engaging new challenges to our inner safety, and constantly discovering that we are more then we thought we were. The Utter Self is the prize at the end of each of these quests, and it is always worth the struggle. As life goes on and we connect more and more with the Utter Self, it leaves more and more of itself behind, visible in the everyday world. As we proceed along the mythic path, we become more powerful, more grounded, more naturally ourselves. We unleash the Utter Self upon the world.

The mythic life leads me into deeper knowledge of myself. It gives me access to areas of my being that are always there, but of which I am not always conscious. The more self aware I am, the more potent I am in carrying out my own life. The more readily I can tap and maximize my strengths and build on my weaknesses, the more clearly I can connect with and participate in my life's path. I become more present and more capable of opening up to the influx of divine energy that is constantly flowing through me, seeking to take the unique shape that only I can give it. The more deliberate I am about this process, the more it will manifest.

There is an old Hopi saying (borrowed by President Obama early in his campaign): "We are the ones we have been waiting for." The meaning of this saying is different for each of us and hangs on our ideals. It's valuable to ask what it means to you, because it's a great window into the relationship between who you are, and who you want to be. What are you waiting for? What is that elusive ideal and what does it mean that you feel it's absence?

"I am the one I've been waiting for." This goes straight to the heart of the mythic life. All benefit flows from connection to self. Any good I can do for my neighbor or for the world begins with that vital connection. But I have not been merely waiting for it. I have been searching for it. In the mythic life, I have gone in pursuit of it. I endure my fears, my anxieties, my insecurities, my limitations, all in the effort to find it, to release it into my life. The Utter Self.

It is me I've been praying to -- that part of God that is me. There is an aspect of myself that is connected to God at all times. All the true spiritual practices are intended to open up the flow of this interchange, me with my God-self, me with God. All true myth tells the story of how this can be achieved. It is the most basic pattern of reality as we experience it in this life and it's symbols are everywhere. Birth and death. Sleeping and waking. The cycles of the seasons, the planets and the stars. We make passage after passage deeper into our selves, dying all the deaths large and small that slowly leave us bereft of our illusions, so that we may begin to perceive the truth and live in freedom from the lies born of fear.

I am the one that I've been searching for.

In the movie Angel-A, Andre askes the mysterious woman who has been helping him if she is an angel. She tells him, "I'm you. I'm you as you really are." We are all angels, beings of power and light. Our struggle here is meant to show us that, help us discover that, to assume that role in the world. It's different for each of us, but our talents and dreams are clues to what it will look like when we find it. The Utter Self is simply me as I really am, my God-self, as I will discover time and again along the mythic path.

Ever forward.

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