"Mapping Future Myths for the Transition" - Workshop & Video - Willi Paul. The First Study of Myth Symposium, Pacifica Graduate Institute Santa Barbara, CA. 10/31 - 9/2 – 2012

[WIlli Paul]

"Mapping Future Myths for the Transition" - Workshop & Video - Willi Paul. The First Study of Myth Symposium, Pacifica Graduate Institute Santa Barbara, CA. 10/31 - 9/2 – 2012

Complete openmythsource.com post - http://wp.me/p14SHM-HD

Video of Workshop - http://youtu.be/xQqDC9R7_M0

 

 

- 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