Great Story Continues

By great story I mean archetypal story, mytho-poetic story – story with patterns of connections, story filled with that most ancient of brain patterns, symbol and metaphor. It is the power of the imaginal, of the symbol, that propels us beyond the personal particular focus of our little local lives toward the realm that I call the personal –universal. Through the symbolic dramas of Psyche, Prometheus, Parsifal, Antigone, Oedipus, Ix Chel, Isis, Rumi, Jesus, Buddha, Faust, and Jaguar, we can discover the broad patterns of our own lives, finding ourselves charged and changed in the process.

Unlike conceptual theory which only touches the intellectual faculties, Mythic Story is both prime and primal. It touches not only the mind but also the imagination, the emotions, and the unconscious depths of a person. Engaging it produces an intense force which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness, both at the personal level and the universal - bubbles within bubbles within bubbles.

At those times when we are open to a sense of our own deeper story coincidences multiply; suddenly there is energy for even tedious tasks, everything glows with meaning. That is the pattern that connects, that is the transformational tales with which my publishing company Mystecha chooses to engage. Mystecha is dedicated to promoting the old bardic concept of mythic fiction, the idea of great story as transformative cauldron of possibility – a means “through which” something charged and momentous like the House of the Jaguar can be coaxed out of the liminal realm and brought into time.