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Myth Matters — 149 episodes
9MM Memory and the Muses
Ancient ideas about Love: Eros, Ovid, and Sappho
Forms in Flux: Transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Love and Transformation
The Wild Braid: Stanley Kunitz for National Poetry month
Change perspective and change the story: thought experiment with "Briar Rose"
Disruption, creative edges, and the fairy tale "Tatterhood"
2MM8 The King and the Corpse
Joy, courage, and the Tigress Jataka
The Goose Girl and what matters most
Inner Emptiness: The Japanese story "The Golden Axe"
Gifts from the Otherworld: The Adventure of Bran
Song of the Bricoleur: Rags Rosenberg
Not Knowing the Way: Rich Peter the Peddler and leaving home
Leaving Home: Adventures of a trickster tailor
In the dark woods: what myths say about leaving home
Transformation and awakening: Dumuzi's Dream
Greater Mysteries: Transformation, music, and the myth of Inanna with singer-composer Kelli Scarr
Inanna's descent to the Underworld, part 3 of 4
Inanna and Dumuzi: The eros of the cosmos (part 2 of 4)
The Sumerian myth of Inanna: In the first days 1 of 4
Joy and Poetry for National Poetry month
Finist the Bright Falcon: Baba Yaga, soul quests, and shamanic journeys
Initiation and Meeting the Baba Yaga
Fierce wildness and the Baba Yaga
Flying Together: The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud Din Attar
Catastrophe: What myths show us about the way of the world
Effort, Uncertainty, and Cerridwen's potion
Allegiance to the Inner Life: The. Nixie in the Millpond part 2 of 2
Allegiance to the Inner Life: The Nixie in the Mill Pond part 1 of 2
The Bricoleur
Shifting Images of Human Being with Dr. Craig Chalquist
Making creative choices in art and life: 3 fairy tale variations
Creativity: An Inner Alchemy of feathers and toads
Myth and Images of Creativity (Beginning with the new Apple ad)
National Poetry Month: Humor and the unexpected turn
Fate, free will, and 3 Swords
The Bhagavad-Gita and yoga of awareness with Gabriella Nagy
Fee-fi-fo-fum: Outwitting the Ogres in Life
The Problem of the Return and the End of the Hero's Adventure
Answering the Call of 2024
Endings and Beginnings: Odin's Quest for Wisdom
Living your heart's desire: The Tale of the Doomed Prince
Beowulf and why we need Monsters
Mythic Sensibility: The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran
"Those Who Live Beneath Us": Sedna the Inuit Woman of the Sea
The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill and the Salmon of Knowledge
Mythical Bonds: Dogs, Kinship, and the Irish tale of Fionn and the Birth of Bran
Churning the Cosmic sea: Joseph Campbell, meaning, and the rapture of being alive
Myth, science, and the creation story: Mr. g by Alan Lightman
Gates of Babylon: The Enduring Legacy of Ancient Creation Myths
Creation Myths: In the beginning
Myths of the Father
A psychology of craft: the shirt of stinging nettles
"The Wild Swans"--- Powerful Words and Living with Wings
The World's Wife, Contemporary Myth Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
Myth, Poetry, and the Power of the Word
Athena, goddess of Reason ?!
Myth, History, and the Woman Warrior
Free to Love: Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid
2023 and the Year of the Rabbit
Christian saints, Norse gods, and magic mushrooms: myths of Santa Claus
A Winter Story: Raven Steals the Light
Questions, Connection, and Perceval's Quest for the Grail
Prince Lindworm and the Unembraceable
Meeting the Baba Yaga: Witches, magic, and mystery
Psyche and Eros: Our Initiation through Aphrodite
Love and Soul: The classical myth of Psyche and Eros
What Love Inspires: The Greek Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
Briar Rose: Rethinking the hero and the 13th fairy
Conscious Evolution: The story of Abu Kasem's Slipper's
Ecological Consciousness and "The Queen Bee" fairy tale
Wonder and "Valemon the White Bear King"
Mysteries of Self, Other, and the Greek myth of Narcissus
Our Quest for Self: "The Six Companions" fairytale
Celebrating the World: "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen
Listening to our animal kin
Fables, frogs, and philosophy
A Strange Feather: 10 Poems for perspective and peace of mind
With the night falling we are saying thank you: 10 poems for National Poetry month
A Terrible Love of War, a Culture of Peace
A Not Just About the Ukraine
Sometimes you've got to laugh
Trickster lessons and "Don't Look Up"
"The Shadow" Knows Everything
The New Year and Happily ever after
Winter Solstice and the energy of regeneration
Iron John part 2 Owning your gold
Iron John and finding the wild man
Precious Bones- Aztec mythology in the 5th world
Cerridwen's cauldron of inspiration
The myth of Arachne and the mysteries of transformation
The Bacchae: How do you imagine the dark?
Into the Labyrinth and the myth of Ariadne's Thread
The Greek god Dionysus and the titanic
Styles of Imagination and Mythic Methods: Zeus and titanism today
Power, justice, and the Greek. myths of Zeus, Far-seeing Ruler of the gods
Meaning is magic: the trickster Hermes and radical change
Make Room for Magic: Celtic tales about fairies
Ask the Dwarf
Radical Change and The Water of Life
Leaps of faith: The story of "Jumping Mouse"
Beyond Conventional Wisdom: Poetry and the Imaginal Realm
Poetry and Soul, A conversation with Brian Michael Tracy
April fools
Eternity in an Hour: Urashima Taro
Stories that Disturb Us
A world without stories and the trickster Anansi
Shipwrecks, Donkeys, and Holy Fools
Dumuzi's Dream and the Regions of Kindness (Inanna myth 4)
Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, episode 3 in a 4-part series
Inanna and Dumuzi: Her Honey Man (part 2 of 4)
Quest for New Metaphors: The Sumerian Myth of Inanna part 1
Imagination and Hanging by a Thread
The King and the Corpse
How to escape the "nothing but"-- practices and gifts of the symbolic life with Rohini Walker
Once Upon a Time and the Crisis of "Nothing But"
Mythic Animals: wonder and shadow in the Other
The Roaring in Your Ears
Two Jatakas: A thought experiment in bodhisattvas and heroes
Women, Power, and the Right to Speak Out
Heroes, Buddha, and How to Read a Myth
Allies: Being One and Finding Them Through Soul
Soul and Your New Story: Stepping Into the Fairy Glen
A moment of respite: Clever Manka
Creativity, Faith, and the Turning Tide
Meanwhile, The World Goes On
Drinking the Waters of Life, and the five sons of King Eochaid
Joyful Participation in the Sorrows of the World
Loki and Chaos in a Quantum Cosmos
Finding Perspective As Things Fall Apart
The Valiant Horse and the Soul Life
Thieves, Tricksters, and Golden Plums
The Trapdoor to Gratitude
Gilgamesh Part 3: Crossing the Waters of Death
The Sumerian Myth of Gilgamesh Part 2: Humbaba and the Cedar Forest
Gilgamesh Part 1: The Creation of Enkidu
Perceval: Wandering in the Wasteland
Life is an Adventure: Perceval's Grail Quest
The Greek God Pan: Nature or Human Nature?
Wandering Aengus and Singing the Swan's Songs
Reciprocity and Right Relationship: Reflections on “The Queen Bee”
Taking Flight: The Conference of the Birds
Poseidon and the Best Laid Plans
Fate, Free Will, and Being Human: Insights from the Greek Myth of Oedipus
Knowing Thyself: The Greek Myth of Oedipus
Artemis and Your Place in the Family of Things
Moonstruck with Selene and Hecate
Love and Beauty: The Greek Myths of Aphrodite and Eros