A Not Just About the Ukraine
03/04/22 • 20 min
Nations. Sovereignty. War. Democracy. Citizenship. I. We.
Unconscious monotheism. Polytheistic consciousness.
Diversity. Complexity.
Fluid myths. Culture building. Trickster.
Multiple meanings. Art.
Some thoughts and two poems.
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Nations. Sovereignty. War. Democracy. Citizenship. I. We.
Unconscious monotheism. Polytheistic consciousness.
Diversity. Complexity.
Fluid myths. Culture building. Trickster.
Multiple meanings. Art.
Some thoughts and two poems.
Email Catherine at [email protected]
Post a positive review on apple podcasts!
Learn how you can work with Catherine at https://mythicmojo.com
Buy me a coffee. Thank you!
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“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow, and there is no humor in heaven.” ~ Mark TwainWhen we get stuck, when life hands us a challenging situation and there's no clear way out, our best tool is the ability to shift perspective. To see things from a different angle.
Laughter can help us make such a shift. So can a story.
The answer might not come immediately and yet, the shift is essential. In this episode, we'll explore this process with the aid of a fairy tale called "The Bee, the Harp, the Mouse, and the Bum-Clock."
Whatever you're dealing with right now, I hope you find something useful in this episode. Thanks for listening.
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A Terrible Love of War, a Culture of Peace
In 2004, James Hillman published a difficult and though-provoking investigation of war titled A Terrible Love of War. He writes:
"I believe that we can never speak sensibly of peace or disarmament unless we enter into this love of war. Unless we enter into the martial state of soul, we cannot comprehend its pull [...] To know war we must enter its love. No psychic phenomenon can be truly dislodged from its fixity unless we first move the imagination into its heart..."
In this episode, I approach Hillman and "A Terrible Love of War" with these questions:
What is "the terrible love of war?"
How does Hillman ask us to imagine it?
What can an archetypal perspective on the phenomenon of war tell us about its nature, and our own?
Can this perspective help us, as citizens and mortal humans, to create a culture of peace?
I welcome your comments and questions. Thanks for listening.
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Myth Matters - A Not Just About the Ukraine
Transcript
Hello, and welcome to Myth Matters, storytelling and conversation about mythology and why myth matters to your life today. I'm your host and personal mythologist Dr. Catherine Svehla. Wherever you may be in this wide, beautiful, crazy world of ours, you are part of this story circle.
I titled this podcast, not just about the Ukraine, and you may recognize those words by Ukrainian president Zelensky yesterday, in a guest essay in the New York Times. He said, "We know this war is not just
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