All right, team, quick little episode here. I want to talk about the cultural, psychological,

emotional and developmental importance of myth within our society, within our culture,

and just individually. So arguably the best way that I can describe it right at the gates

is by talking about the misconception of myths.

Oftentimes people look at a myth and they think, oh, that's a story about a fantasy.

That's a story about some fictional experience or that's a story about some quote-unquote religion in the past, right? Greek gods, et cetera. And that is the biggest

misconception about myths, period. The truth about myths is that they are an intrinsic or

reoccurring pattern that has always been with us, a kind of perennial pattern that has existed throughout history.

And myths represent a kind of larger truth that we sometimes struggle to put into words.

And so the wonderful thing about this is that they can hold story-based truths.

They can hold truths that are much larger

than you would normally just pack into one sentence. And you can try and distill it down

into a sentence or into a paragraph of like, well, this is the truth that that myth is trying

to represent. But it's not going to have the same kind of transformational or alchemical

weight as it would if you listen to the story. If you study the arc of what's happening in the

myth, if you study the archetypes and the symbols and the characters that are represented

within the myth, because the real substance and the substantial weight about myths and the reason why

they're so important within our culture is that they describe things within us as individuals,

within us socially and culturally as human beings that are not only incredibly important

to our survival, but they point to a kind

of wisdom that if we detach from that wisdom, we can get caught in very linear, hyper-rational

forms of being, thinking, operating, and relating in the world. And that way of being within

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