Why Mythology

Facts don’t change people, stories do.

Myth...a myth is a story that transcends its author. It belongs to everyone who tells it, everyone who hears it. A myth is a story written by a culture, a generation, or by many generations. A myth, then, is richer than any one person's imagination. It has more meaning than can be captured by one person's interpretation. No one telling does it justice. A myth is universal; it is about all of us. It is personal; it is about you.

"A myth is story that has never happened
and is always happening."

—Howard Sasportas

Myths are the great stories we live by, even if we haven't heard them. They create the archetypes, the patterns that we accept as the blueprint for how things are, for who we really are. They let us interact with beliefs that we didn't know we had. They tell us about the nature of Nature and about the secret lives and the preferences of divinity. Myths let us peek into our own psyche and walk around in the subconscious of the collective mind. Let's make some changes while we are there. If we can tell a story differently, we can "story" our life differently.

We will spend a year re-telling this story. We will spend a year redesigning the feminine archetype, our beliefs about women and men. We will re-tell a story about love, trust, betrayal, and sacrifice. As we do, we will tell a new story about ourselves and about the divinity within each of us. Through myth we can re-story ourselves. We can restore our relationship with the world and each other. That is what Mystery School is all about.