Myth Matters

Jun 13 2024 97
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Welcome to Myth Matters, a thought-provoking exploration of the role myth plays in contemporary life life and the intersection of myth, creativity, and consciousness. Host Catherine Svehla PhD. shares her knowledge of mythology and depth psychology to find insight and explore possibilities. Member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation MythMaker℠ Podcast Network.

Learn more at www.mythicmojo.com and keep the mystery in your life alive.

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Creativity: An Inner Alchemy of feathers and toads

Jun 13 2024 30 mins  
Send Catherine a text Message“We would do well… to think of the creative process as a living thing implanted in the human psyche.” --- C.G. Jung (1922) Collected Works 15We often say that every person is inherently creative and yet doubts and fears of inadequacy are common. Many of us hesitate to make any claims to creativity and feel it is lacking in our lives, or question t

Myth and Images of Creativity (Beginning with the new Apple ad)

May 09 2024 37 mins  
Send Catherine a text MessageApple's ad for the new iPad has evoked some very strong reactions, reactions that illuminate old links between image, metaphor, myth, and our collective notions about creativity and the creative process. The current cultural conversation is a good starting point for reflection on some commonly held images of creativity and the way these images shape our

National Poetry Month: Humor and the unexpected turn

Apr 15 2024 43 mins  
Send Catherine a text Message"Well, that's the trick: the sudden unexpectedness inside the over-known." --- Heather McHughWhat type of mood does the word "poetry" evoke for you? Do you associate poetry with the profound and weighty? The concerns of the soul and the seriously sacred? I rarely look to poetry for a laugh and I wonder why, when there are many brilliant moments of humor

Fate, free will, and 3 Swords

Apr 04 2024 27 mins  
Send Catherine a text MessageFate and free will, and the longing for purpose and prospect of destiny that hangs somewhere in-between. How do these forces shape our lives? Do we play assigned roles in a cosmic plan or make it all up as we go?These questions weave through many myths and stories. What answers do we find and how can we live with the questions?Support the Show.Email Cat

The Bhagavad-Gita and yoga of awareness with Gabriella Nagy

Mar 15 2024 45 mins  
Send Catherine a text Message “A yogi sees Me in all things and all things within Me.” Krishna in the Bhagavad GitaThe Bhagavad-Gita is an important Hindu teaching story embedded in the Mahabharata, an astonishing epic poem. Astonishing for its length- 100,000 verses-- and for its beauty. Astonishing for the complexity of the social and spiritual world constructed in the poem a

Fee-fi-fo-fum: Outwitting the Ogres in Life

Mar 01 2024 37 mins  
Send Catherine a text MessageLast Monday, February 26th was Tell a Fairy Tale Day. I began preparation for this episode with the intention of telling you a fairy tale, perhaps one that was connected to the holiday. This process opened up reflection on the necessity of a well-developed imagination to meet life challenges in a creative and satisfying way, and the role fairy tales pla

The Problem of the Return and the End of the Hero's Adventure

Feb 09 2024 37 mins  
Send Catherine a text MessageWe have an ever- increasing wealth of myths and stories, fueled by new discoveries and ongoing mythmaking. There are also dominant myths and stories, and dominant ideas about myths and stories, that limit the usefulness of this inheritance and the possibilities we entertain. In the last episode, I turned to the Hero's Adventure, a mythic pattern articul

Answering the Call of 2024

Jan 25 2024 31 mins  
Send Catherine a text MessageIt's only January and 2024 already feels like a year of consequence. Crazy weather and climate change, war, elections, ideological, religious, and cultural conflicts, and Pluto's move into Aquarius, heralding a long underworld journey of transformation in our communities, social contracts, technology, idea of service, and visions of freedom.What role mi

Endings and Beginnings: Odin's Quest for Wisdom

Dec 14 2023 28 mins  
Send Catherine a text MessageThe solstice will soon be upon us, followed by the arrival of a new year. A time of endings and beginnings. Reckoning. This passage through winter darkness here the in northern hemisphere leads me to Norse mythology and my fascination with the god Odin.Odin is a god who lives with the prophecy that his world will end and he will die. This is an unusual

Living your heart's desire: The Tale of the Doomed Prince

Dec 01 2023 30 mins  
Send Catherine a text Message"I am destined to die either by a crocodile, a serpent, or a dog; it is the will of the gods. Then let me go forth and follow my heart's desire while I live.".2023 is drawing to a close. "The Tale of the Doomed Prince," a fairy tale found in ancient Egyptian papyri from 1550 BCE or so, is an interesting companion to year end (year round?) reflections on