| Welcome
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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Mythic Journeys 2004
June 3-6 Atlanta, Georgia
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, 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. |
Contents
"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 |
