Connie introduces an interestign set of aged mentors, from Yoda and Dumbledor to Gandalf and Jung. I think of Baobo and contemplate Baba Yaga. I wonder who might come to mind for others?

In this Myth Salon happening now on the Odyssey, there is an overarching theme of Odysseus having to piece his story back together, and in turn, pieces himself back together on the journey home. What is the connection between a story and an identity, what is the strength of that story, and what pers

Suzanne Simard's new book "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest" is reviewed in the LA Times. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-05-05/how-a-descendant-of-loggers-discovered-that-trees-cooperate#

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overstory Read the chapter Patricia Westerford, inspired by the true story of Suzanne Simard, the forest ecologist who showed that trees communicate. In typical fashion, she was dismissed and even ridiculed by other scientists until her research showed that

In the Zoom chat (which disappears, but this chat sticks around), people are correlating Philemon, Gandalf, Dumbledore, and Obi-wan. Anyone have any others?

Please enjoy this new live viewer. While you watch, you can take and save your notes and thoughts (which it's worth mentioning that we can't read), and you can engage with each other in this forum, which is our attempt to keep the conversation going from event to event with no interruption. Add post

Thank you for this richly illuminating symposium. I'd like to contribute a few comments to the discussion: -- In exploring the theme of decapitation, several pertinent mythic examples were mentioned: the beheading of the Medusa, the annual harvest beheading and spring renewal of the Corn King, and

Thanks everyone for joining us here. Please feel free to add any of your thoughts!

Hi Everyone, this is Will - as we go along, jsut want to encourage you to chat here. Feel fre to start a discussion or topic anywhere, but if it's just a chat, let's chat!

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It's 25 minutes into the event, and we get the pleasure of hearing Gabbi's origin story. She is in LA and she sees the sky turn grey and the sun turn red as the smoke from a California wildfire rises. Who else has a story of overwhelming connection to the problems in our environment?

In her book on the Imaginal Realm: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Imaginal-Realm-Tolkiens-Nuralogicals/dp/1947544217/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39JNZBFJODHTO&dchild=1&keywords=becca%20tarnas&qid=1616115115&s=books&sprefix=becca%20ta%2Cprime-instant-video%2C245&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR24XxsNsF7fO8nKY7ciw4IC3LN0uYWudE

Let's see how this works!

Is the Journey the idea with which we wake up from our dream? Is the hero the character? Or is the heroic birth the birth of the idea? The Oath at the End of the Odyssey?

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I'm curious about the underlying source of synchronicities. It seems to me that the scientific/rational process of subdividing the universe into bits then observing correlations or causal relationships between those bits is primarily a mental/perceptual process. We create mental models in the form

On the Facebook stream of this, Jody Bower has informed me that the new Tolkien series on Amazon might be featuring the downfall of Númenor: https://www.tor.com/2019/03/07/new-details-about-amazons-middle-earth-now-featuring-numenor/

Has anyone read Tolkien's On Fairy Stories? https://www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Fairy-Stories-Verlyn-Flieger/dp/0007582919

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