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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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27%9MM Memory and the Muses
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27%Ancient ideas about Love: Eros, Ovid, and Sappho
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25%Forms in Flux: Transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses
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24%Ovid's Metamorphoses: Love and Transformation
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34%The Wild Braid: Stanley Kunitz for National Poetry month
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26%Change perspective and change the story: thought experiment with "Briar Rose"
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31%Disruption, creative edges, and the fairy tale "Tatterhood"
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38%2MM8 The King and the Corpse
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28%Joy, courage, and the Tigress Jataka
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22%The Goose Girl and what matters most
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25%Inner Emptiness: The Japanese story "The Golden Axe"
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60%Gifts from the Otherworld: The Adventure of Bran
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23%Song of the Bricoleur: Rags Rosenberg
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20%Not Knowing the Way: Rich Peter the Peddler and leaving home
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28%Leaving Home: Adventures of a trickster tailor
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35%In the dark woods: what myths say about leaving home
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30%Transformation and awakening: Dumuzi's Dream
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20%Greater Mysteries: Transformation, music, and the myth of Inanna with singer-composer Kelli Scarr
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22%Inanna's descent to the Underworld, part 3 of 4
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73%Inanna and Dumuzi: The eros of the cosmos (part 2 of 4)
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28%The Sumerian myth of Inanna: In the first days 1 of 4
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36%Joy and Poetry for National Poetry month
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26%Finist the Bright Falcon: Baba Yaga, soul quests, and shamanic journeys
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25%Initiation and Meeting the Baba Yaga
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22%Fierce wildness and the Baba Yaga
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19%Flying Together: The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud Din Attar
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20%Catastrophe: What myths show us about the way of the world
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23%Effort, Uncertainty, and Cerridwen's potion
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20%Allegiance to the Inner Life: The. Nixie in the Millpond part 2 of 2
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23%Allegiance to the Inner Life: The Nixie in the Mill Pond part 1 of 2
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25%The Bricoleur
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31%Shifting Images of Human Being with Dr. Craig Chalquist
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32%Making creative choices in art and life: 3 fairy tale variations
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28%Creativity: An Inner Alchemy of feathers and toads
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23%Myth and Images of Creativity (Beginning with the new Apple ad)
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55%National Poetry Month: Humor and the unexpected turn
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37%Fate, free will, and 3 Swords
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31%The Bhagavad-Gita and yoga of awareness with Gabriella Nagy
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22%Fee-fi-fo-fum: Outwitting the Ogres in Life
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72%The Problem of the Return and the End of the Hero's Adventure
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26%Answering the Call of 2024
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21%Endings and Beginnings: Odin's Quest for Wisdom
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23%Living your heart's desire: The Tale of the Doomed Prince
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21%Beowulf and why we need Monsters
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20%Mythic Sensibility: The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran
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31%"Those Who Live Beneath Us": Sedna the Inuit Woman of the Sea
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76%The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill and the Salmon of Knowledge
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27%Mythical Bonds: Dogs, Kinship, and the Irish tale of Fionn and the Birth of Bran
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20%Churning the Cosmic sea: Joseph Campbell, meaning, and the rapture of being alive
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28%Myth, science, and the creation story: Mr. g by Alan Lightman
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24%Gates of Babylon: The Enduring Legacy of Ancient Creation Myths
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38%Creation Myths: In the beginning
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36%Myths of the Father
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20%A psychology of craft: the shirt of stinging nettles
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50%"The Wild Swans"--- Powerful Words and Living with Wings
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26%The World's Wife, Contemporary Myth Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
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30%Myth, Poetry, and the Power of the Word
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30%Athena, goddess of Reason ?!
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24%Myth, History, and the Woman Warrior
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19%Free to Love: Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid
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31%2023 and the Year of the Rabbit
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35%Christian saints, Norse gods, and magic mushrooms: myths of Santa Claus
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23%A Winter Story: Raven Steals the Light
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25%Questions, Connection, and Perceval's Quest for the Grail
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30%Prince Lindworm and the Unembraceable
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20%Meeting the Baba Yaga: Witches, magic, and mystery
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33%Psyche and Eros: Our Initiation through Aphrodite
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30%Love and Soul: The classical myth of Psyche and Eros
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20%What Love Inspires: The Greek Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
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23%Briar Rose: Rethinking the hero and the 13th fairy
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38%Conscious Evolution: The story of Abu Kasem's Slipper's
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20%Ecological Consciousness and "The Queen Bee" fairy tale
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31%Wonder and "Valemon the White Bear King"
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19%Mysteries of Self, Other, and the Greek myth of Narcissus
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28%Our Quest for Self: "The Six Companions" fairytale
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34%Celebrating the World: "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen
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21%Listening to our animal kin
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20%Fables, frogs, and philosophy
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24%A Strange Feather: 10 Poems for perspective and peace of mind
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58%With the night falling we are saying thank you: 10 poems for National Poetry month
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24%A Terrible Love of War, a Culture of Peace
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23%A Not Just About the Ukraine
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23%Sometimes you've got to laugh
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28%Trickster lessons and "Don't Look Up"
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25%"The Shadow" Knows Everything
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20%The New Year and Happily ever after
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24%Winter Solstice and the energy of regeneration
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26%Iron John part 2 Owning your gold
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28%Iron John and finding the wild man
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32%Precious Bones- Aztec mythology in the 5th world
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24%Cerridwen's cauldron of inspiration
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33%The myth of Arachne and the mysteries of transformation
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22%The Bacchae: How do you imagine the dark?
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32%Into the Labyrinth and the myth of Ariadne's Thread
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25%The Greek god Dionysus and the titanic
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21%Styles of Imagination and Mythic Methods: Zeus and titanism today
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68%Power, justice, and the Greek. myths of Zeus, Far-seeing Ruler of the gods
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20%Meaning is magic: the trickster Hermes and radical change
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24%Make Room for Magic: Celtic tales about fairies
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36%Ask the Dwarf
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24%Radical Change and The Water of Life
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22%Leaps of faith: The story of "Jumping Mouse"
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37%Beyond Conventional Wisdom: Poetry and the Imaginal Realm
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19%Poetry and Soul, A conversation with Brian Michael Tracy
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31%April fools
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23%Eternity in an Hour: Urashima Taro
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23%Stories that Disturb Us
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23%A world without stories and the trickster Anansi
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24%Shipwrecks, Donkeys, and Holy Fools
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22%Dumuzi's Dream and the Regions of Kindness (Inanna myth 4)
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29%Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, episode 3 in a 4-part series
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20%Inanna and Dumuzi: Her Honey Man (part 2 of 4)
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34%Quest for New Metaphors: The Sumerian Myth of Inanna part 1
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27%Imagination and Hanging by a Thread
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20%The King and the Corpse
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29%How to escape the "nothing but"-- practices and gifts of the symbolic life with Rohini Walker
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27%Once Upon a Time and the Crisis of "Nothing But"
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20%Mythic Animals: wonder and shadow in the Other
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38%The Roaring in Your Ears
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24%Two Jatakas: A thought experiment in bodhisattvas and heroes
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37%Women, Power, and the Right to Speak Out
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30%Heroes, Buddha, and How to Read a Myth
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33%Allies: Being One and Finding Them Through Soul
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31%Soul and Your New Story: Stepping Into the Fairy Glen
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28%A moment of respite: Clever Manka
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20%Creativity, Faith, and the Turning Tide
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33%Meanwhile, The World Goes On
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20%Drinking the Waters of Life, and the five sons of King Eochaid
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27%Joyful Participation in the Sorrows of the World
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19%Loki and Chaos in a Quantum Cosmos
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27%Finding Perspective As Things Fall Apart
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31%The Valiant Horse and the Soul Life
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21%Thieves, Tricksters, and Golden Plums
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30%The Trapdoor to Gratitude
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26%Gilgamesh Part 3: Crossing the Waters of Death
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25%The Sumerian Myth of Gilgamesh Part 2: Humbaba and the Cedar Forest
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19%Gilgamesh Part 1: The Creation of Enkidu
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20%Perceval: Wandering in the Wasteland
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26%Life is an Adventure: Perceval's Grail Quest
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23%The Greek God Pan: Nature or Human Nature?
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23%Wandering Aengus and Singing the Swan's Songs
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27%Reciprocity and Right Relationship: Reflections on “The Queen Bee”
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32%Taking Flight: The Conference of the Birds
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29%Poseidon and the Best Laid Plans
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33%Fate, Free Will, and Being Human: Insights from the Greek Myth of Oedipus
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24%Knowing Thyself: The Greek Myth of Oedipus
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32%Artemis and Your Place in the Family of Things
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29%Moonstruck with Selene and Hecate
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23%Love and Beauty: The Greek Myths of Aphrodite and Eros
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