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Myth Matters

Catherine Svehla

Welcome to Myth Matters, a thought-provoking exploration of myth in contemporary 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…

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Myth Matters

Abundance and the needs of the "kingdom": The Shepherd&#39;s Nosegay fairy tale

Who are we? Epics, identity, and Nolan&#39;s Odyssey

9MM Memory and the Muses

Ancient ideas about Love: Eros, Ovid, and Sappho

Forms in Flux: Transformation in Ovid&#39;s Metamorphoses

Ovid&#39;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&#39;s Dream

Greater Mysteries: Transformation, music, and the myth of Inanna with singer-composer Kelli Scarr

Inanna&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s Adventure

Answering the Call of 2024

Endings and Beginnings: Odin&#39;s Quest for Wisdom

Living your heart&#39;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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s Slipper&#39;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

Abundance and the needs of the "kingdom": The Shepherd's Nosegay fairy tale

Who are we? Epics, identity, and Nolan's Odyssey

Forms in Flux: Transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses: Love and Transformation

Transformation and awakening: Dumuzi's Dream

Inanna's descent to the Underworld, part 3 of 4

Effort, Uncertainty, and Cerridwen's potion

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

Endings and Beginnings: Odin's Quest for Wisdom

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

The World's Wife, Contemporary Myth Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

Free to Love: Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid

Questions, Connection, and Perceval's Quest for the Grail

Conscious Evolution: The story of Abu Kasem's Slipper's

Sometimes you've got to laugh

Trickster lessons and "Don't Look Up"

Cerridwen's cauldron of inspiration

Into the Labyrinth and the myth of Ariadne's Thread

Dumuzi's Dream and the Regions of Kindness (Inanna myth 4)

Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, episode 3 in a 4-part series

Life is an Adventure: Perceval's Grail Quest

Wandering Aengus and Singing the Swan's Songs