In this issue, we're proud to announce the launch of our new Web sites for Mythic Journeys (complete with conference registration at last!) and the Mythic Imagination Institute, a resource for references, events, community, and more.

Meet the new Mythic Journeys guest speakers, including novelists Joyce Carol Oates and Guy Gavriel Kay, teacher Sobonfu Somé, filmmaker Eric Saperston, mythic rock opera composer Parker Johnson, and more.

Plus, this issue offers you articles by philospher and author Sam Keen and Professor William Doty, book reviews, and two looks at myth in fantasy. The first is an essay on the Artist as Shaman, featuring Terri Windling's The Wood Wife. The second, Mythopoeia in The Lord of the Rings,asks the question: "Can fantasy be myth?"

This issue also introduces a Calendar of Events, listing events, workshops, performances, films, lectures, and more, all over the world.

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Comments? If you have thoughts to share, or know of any mythic events we've missed, please let us know. You may also call us at 404-832-4127. We'll continue to update our calendar of events reularly, even after each issue of the newsletter is published, so please check back often.

REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE NOW!

A story can change the world. 

Like the famous Salons of Paris, we hope to spark a broad cultural movement for positive change. Won't you join us?  Visit our Web site to make your plans now! We've just launched, so please bear with us and let us know if you have any problems at all. The first Mythic Journeys conference, bringing together artists, scholars, writers, performers, psychologists, and more,  will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Atlanta. Mythic Journeys is comprised of two events:a main conference and performance festival, and an intimate pre-conference. The main conference will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6, 2004, and we expect between 1,500 and 3,000 participants. The pre-conference (nearly sold out!), focusing on intimate gatherings, performances, and in-depth workshops, will be limited to only 250 attendees, and will be held on Thursday and Friday, June 3 and 4, 2004.  We hope you'll be a part of it.

• Progress Report 
• T-Shirts
• Calendar of Events
• Book Reviews
• Myth and Poetry
• Old Wine in New Bottles: The Transformations Database
• Well-Favored Links
• Radical Environmental Proposals from Sam Keen
• Can Fantasy be Myth? Mythopoeia and Tolkien's work
• Myth and Religion: The Same or Different?
• The Artist as Shaman: Madness, Shapechanging and Art in Terri Windling's The Wood Wife
• About Mythic Imagination
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"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."

- Henry Emerson Fosdick
 

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- G. K. Chesterton
 

"Myth is something that never happened, but is happening all the time."

- Sallistius, Greek poet
 

"Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically."

- Madeleine L'Engle