"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides
and my windows to be stuffed.
I want the culture of all the lands
to be blown about my house
as freely as possible."

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Image: Home Not Home © 2006 Stu Jenks]

Windows on Mythic Journeys '06
July / August 2006

• Of Castles in the Sky and Katusha Rockets:
  The Journey Continues
  
  "While the atrocities going on all over the world continue to sadden and discourage us and challenge our hope, we realize that our work is now more important than ever. I cannot think of one of the more than 35 wars going on in the world today that is not the result of some form of literalism and ideological fundamentalism."
  — Michael Karlin [more]

• Picking Up Tofu with Chopsticks
  
  Empathy could be the single most important ability we must possess in order to move our world into a more peaceful and livable place. Even beyond the human, empathy creates understanding.
  — Honora Foah [more]
  
  

• Mythic Journeys: The Wardrobe, the Parade, the Shore
  
  "In one of my earliest daydreams I asked the Spirit of Life, "Can you give me a place where every art, virtue and thought can meld, to become a riot, a romance, a family?" I did not suspect that Mythic Journeys would become and perhaps is the closest enactment of that vision."
  — Ekiwah Belendez [more]

• Building Your Mythic Toolbox: An Introduction to the Study of Myth
  
  At the MythicJourneys '06 workshop with the above title, Dr. William Doty outlined at the outset what he planned to present, but then paused to ask the participants if they already had questions/suggestions. Indeed they did, and they had some super interchanges. Nonetheless, several persons expressed to him after the conference that they had missed getting more of "the content" he'd outlined. Here, then, Dr. Doty provides, as a quick trip through Mythville, some of what he'd planned to present.
  — William Doty [more]
  
  

• Auburn Avenue,
  Atlanta, Georgia
  
  Artist/photographer/musician Stu Jenks participated in a Conversation at Mythic Journeys '06 entitled 'What Does the Soul Look Like?' While walking the streets of Atlanta the morning before the panel, he received a peek at the answer to that question.
  — Stu Jenks [more]
  
  



• The Never Ending Journey: Mythologizing and Modernity
  
  For the five days at the Mythic Journeys conference in Atlanta, Derek Beres, one of the leading figures in international music in America, absorbed the event, keeping reflection at a minimum. The result of that time is this essay.
  — Derek Beres [more]

Poetry


• Rumi
  — Coleman Barks [more]
  
  
• Mornings after Mythic Journeys
  (At the Kafe Köbenhavn in the Atrium Lounge)
  — David Elliott [more]
  
  
• Wildflowers
  — Robert M. Giannetti [more]