Myth Matters Podcast

  “In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to ask questions.”— Mary Oliver The Arthurian legend of the knight Perceval and his quest for the grail was written by the French Romantic … Continued

    In this Norwegian (oops, I mean Danish) fairy tale, the queen makes a mistake. That’s not the whole story.   There’s also a dragon.  And an opportunity to reflect on our fallibility, the tendency to blame… the problems embedded in … Continued

I recently overhead an exchange between a little boy and his mom. The subject was witches and magic. Which got me thinking. Magic involves perception, changes in the way we see and the manner in which things appear. Magic, like … Continued

  “Loving is an authentic psychological task, the most demanding there is, just because it activates in us new ways of knowing ourselves.’” — Aldo Carotenuto The myth of Eros and Psyche can be read as a myth of initiation … Continued

    “I have always thought of a myth as something that never was but is always happening.”– Jean Houston, The Possible Human   Eros and Psyche, or Cupid and Psyche to the Romans, a marvelous old myth about love, … Continued

  “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou     What can we do when we are motivated by love? I recently had the great … Continued