"Mapping Future Myths for the Transition" - Workshop & Video - Willi Paul. The First Study of Myth Symposium, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. 8/31 - 9/2 – 2012

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Video of Workshop (70 min)

Original Description - "Mapping Future Myths for the Transition" -

Classic mythology no longer plays a vibrant role in the current global Transition. We need to engineer new myths for the pending post-crash age that incorporate stories and values yet unforeseen. I will refine and present the mythic mandate process that I presented at the 2011 NW Permaculture Convergence for the Symposium.

Discussion Topics -

+ Participant Introductions: Share One Global Concern
+ Connections to New Myths?
+ Are Classic Myths Working?
+ Impact from "Current Myths?"
+ Kid's Mythology and Social Media
+ What are Mythic Elements?
+ Confusion and Chaos = Knowledge?
+ harold and the purple crayon
+ Creation Myths
+ Story vs. Myth?
+ Avatar
+ Neo-Tribalism & Back to Nature
+ Collective vs. Individual Myth Making?
+ The AIDS Quilt as Collective Story
+ Listening, Dreams and Myth Making
+ Myth & Cultural Boundaries?
+ The Earth Myth
+ Darwin's Survival Myth
+ Christian Paradigm & Symbols
+ The Sociology of How We Live
+ Features of a New Mythos?
+ The Sacred & the Symbols.
+ The Archetypes
+ "Interdependence"
+ Local - Global Perspective
+ (Divine ) Reverence
+ Heroes
+ The Internet as Myth Builder