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Medicine Stories

54. Lineage, Calling, and the Mythic Imagination - Sharon Blackie

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Myth is the power of place speaking, and the story threads that made meaning and held guidance for our ancestors can be found anew and re-woven for our times. When we tap into the mythic imagination, we remember the calling that brought us into the world.

IN THE INTRO:

  • Dreaming the ancient ways
  • Sisters of rock and root

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • The Loss of the Voices of the Wells: the sacred contract between humans and the land, and how the desecration of women and the destruction of the earth are interwoven
  • The loss of lineage results in the loss of our stories
  • The sophistication embedded in ancient myths, and how we’ve been raised misunderstanding the old stories
  • Stories have an independent existence outside of the human mind and reside in the imaginal realm
  • A myth is the power of place speaking
  • The Otherworld is an overlay, interwoven with this one
  • How the heroic journey is killing the planet
  • Archetypes are universal, but expressed in myth through different cultural filters
  • The wise old woman of the world, and the Cailleach that informs much of Sharon’s work
  • Cultivating the mythic imagination & courting the world soul
  • The meaning of “calling”: every one of us came here to do something that matters
  • The stories that we loved as children hold meaning for us
  • Discerning coincidence from synchronicity
  • Grounding the imaginal realm
  • Bodyfullness v mindfulness
  • The root of the word “enchantment” means “to sing into”- becoming re-enchanted is singing yourself back into the world
  • Telling stories to the land, and the sacred responsibility to engage with the earth

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0:00.0

It is myth and story and archetype and dreams that helps us remember who we are literally, what it was that we came here to be, that helps us unfold that sense of calling.

0:17.2

Hello friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is to be human upon the earth.

0:25.8

I am Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode 54. Today I'm sharing my interview with Sharon Blackie, a wonderful mythologist, writer, speaker, human being who is an important teacher in my life and his work is so related to the things we talk about on this

0:46.0

podcast. It was an honor to talk to her and I'm psyched to share it with you. I also wanted to share the book series that I've been reading this summer that has blown my mind and

1:01.0

came to me through Sharon and her podcast This Mythic Life.

1:06.2

Her second episode was an interview with the author,

1:09.3

Manda Scott, and I am so glad I bought the first book because I mean I'm gonna just like hold these in my heart in a very special way for the rest of my life.

1:21.0

So it's the Budica series, B-O-D-I-C-A.

1:26.6

The Budica was a real historical figure.

1:30.8

She was a woman living in Britannia in the first century who was a warrior and a

1:39.0

leader of her people and fought a number of successful revolts against the invading Roman colonizers.

1:47.0

And so the book is just an imagining of what her life was like, what her people's lives were like, the four books,

1:58.0

there are four of them.

2:00.4

And it's just, you know, if you yearn for the old ways, as you probably do if you listen to this

2:08.0

podcast, it's such a beautiful immersion into what it might have looked like.

2:14.4

You know, she bases as much on fact

2:17.4

and the historical record and, you know,

2:20.1

archaeological finds as she can.

2:21.9

And at the end of each book book she talks about like what was

2:24.5

fact in the book and I love that I love reading her process and then she has such an amazing way of

2:32.3

filling in the details that make for compelling fiction, which she shared about on Sharon's podcast.

2:39.0

So she lived alone for the six years that she wrote the books with dogs I believe and she developed

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