Understanding life in mythic terms is crucial to transformation.

Understanding life in mythical terms is crucial to transformation: of the world, of a culture, of an individual. Luckily, myth is basic. Everyone everywhere has access to it’s potency even if they can’t read. That’s because it’s all around us. Every moment of every day there is life and there is death. Every day the sun rises and sets, every year descends invariably into darkness and comes out again. It’s the pattern of reality, and if we look we’ll see this pattern unfolding in all the events of our lives. When we are practiced in the mythical perspective, we can set out for goals we might never before have considered. That’s because the idea of the unattainable begins to beckon like a challenge.

The Absolute has a separate language for each of us. A prayer language. But there are collective languages, too: the prayers of a religion, or the religion itself. But myth is the language by which the Absolute communicates with humanity as a whole. It’s deeper than religion, or ideology, or any teaching of any kind. Once the myth-mind is unlocked, the code cracked, my own life becomes mythic, a story filled with monsters to slay and treasures to seek. The religious teachings and the written myths of the ages start to resemble clues from the hand of God for how to thrive in reality.

Reading Lord of the Rings when I was twelve remains one of the most important things I ever did. The right information at the right time. Twenty-eight years later it still serves as a reference in the struggles of my life. I still go that story almost as often as to the Bible, to seek understanding, or at to least help me settle into adventure mode when all I can do is keep going. 

Ever forward.

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