Dennis P. Slattery explores several angles on the complexity of personal mythology. Jung himself saw it as “the task of tasks” for anyone of us.
Not knowing some of the contours of our personal mythology leaves us open to all forms of propaganda, abuse and misdirection. Especially when we unknowingly or knowingly begin to live out another’s personal myth, leaving our own gasping at the side of the road unacknowledged and unlived. Participants will engage the four arenas covered in each class to come to a greater understanding of what myth is wanting to live through them.
“Thus it is that I have now undertaken, in my eighty-third year, to tell my personal myth. I can only make direct statements, only ‘tell stories.’ Whether or not the stories are ‘true’ is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth.” – C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pp. 3-4