374) Sharon Blackie: Re-enchanting the earth through mythology
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
“Story helps us weave ourselves into the land and feel a sense of wonder and awe when we step outside. This re-mythologizing, restorying to me is a really important way that we can find belonging to places from which we would otherwise perhaps feel quite alienated.”
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Sharon Blackie, an award-winning writer, psychologist and mythologist. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of myth, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal, cultural and environmental problems we face today.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include how the eco-heroine's journey offers more life-enhancing and community-centered visions for our paths forward, embracing menopause and elderhood as liberating and alchemical, what it means to re-enchant our lives with mythology to find belonging in place, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Power by India Blue. The episode-inspired artwork is by Sabrina Gevaerd.)
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| 1:38.1 | Story helps us weave ourselves into the land and to feel a sense of wonder and awe when we step outside. And so this remothologizing, this restoring to, is a really, really important way that we can find a way |
| 1:47.6 | of belonging to places from which we would otherwise perhaps feel quite alienated. |
| 1:55.2 | Today we're speaking with Dr. Sharon Blackie, an award-winning writer, psychologist, and mythologist. |
| 2:02.6 | Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures, and workshops are focused on the development |
| 2:07.7 | of the mythic imagination and on the relevance of myth, fairy tales, and folk traditions |
| 2:13.3 | to the personal, cultural, and environmental problems that we face today. |
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