"The way forward for our species in an age of collapse is to collectively awaken to mythic imagination. A new story is emerging, so are new ways of perceiving and belonging. We must reimagine the role of the ancient myths and stories, including the religious symbols we have inherited from our deep past... This new story will not be discontinuous with the past, but must involve a remembering of the powers that have birthed and shaped the more-than-human world throughout its great epochs and cycles of transformation... Underneath the great religious traditions and myths of the world grows an imaginal root-system older than humanity, a substrate of animate intelligence—the ground of emergence of our species in an unfolding reciprocity with a truly inexhaustible planetary imagination...
"Hyphal threads of this primordial and indestructible livingness that the ancient Greeks called zoe and the Aramaic speaking mystics called ruha, weave through our great religious traditions in the form of embodied images, or archetypes, hidden in stories and expressed in rituals... the Christ is a primordial symbol of a deeper mythic imagination.
- Matt Syrdal, Mythic Christ: Awakening to the Imagination of the World
Welcome to the Imaginal Age
DRINK THE WEL MYTH AND MYSTE
Awakening Mythic Imagination
AN ECO-DEPTH YEARLONG
Coming August 1st, 2025
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This yearlong certificate program is our experiential, nature-based, induction into the realm of the deep imagination. Encounter the depths of an animate world through a mythic lens. This online program is for spiritual seekers who long to rewild religion and reimagine the possibilities for life enhancing cultures. The yearlong program for participants of diverse spiritual backgrounds who have some experience with inner-work, depth or transpersonal psychology, contemplative and spiritual practices, and a love of the natural world. Enrollment requires an application with a $350 deposit.
Drink from the deep well of myth and mystery
Our world has been unraveling in a catastrophic loss of meaning, mythic imagination, and ritual embodiment that once oriented human communities within a living cosmos. Imagination is undoubtedly the most vital resource for our times, not simply the ingenuity of the ego, but rather the deep structures of the mythic imagination from where the prophets, priestesses, shamans, and visionaries experienced the world and brought initiatory gifts for their people. In short, mythic imagination is the source or wellspring for cultural regeneration.
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Today, there is a new Awakening happening at the margins of the dominant culture. A movement of incredible depth and visionary longing​. I have been privileged to meet folx from different walks, seeking out this initiatory source, not for themselves but for future generations. If you are one such person, we need to meet...
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Mythic Christ Mystery School offers online community for exploring mythic structures of story, archetype, dream, and the deep imaginal realm awakening within individuals who are sensing a collective longing a desire to rewild our god-images and re-root our religious institutions in the sacred Spirit-breathed ground of the natural world. Currently, there are three paths:
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A podcast with bonus material and guided practices.
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A year-long program, and 3-5 day online and on-land immersions
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In-depth group work within a community supported container.
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Wholeness and depth-oriented mentoring which includes: Soulcraft and Wild Mind practices (Animas Valley Institute) including guided dreamwork, deep imagery, self-designed ceremony, and more; Myth-work, story, ritual embodiment; leadership coaching.
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Discover Wild, Animate Realms of Possibility
"Myth is a wild and animate mode of expression. It moves like an animal, embodying a glimmer of the deep imaginal world in its eyes... The ‘imaginal’ encompasses the evolutionary processes of embodiment, including our uniquely human forward-seeing visionary capacities. These capacities enable us to anticipate and co-create possible futures...​ Myth traces specific patterns of meaning deep in the contours of the world. At the water’s edge of creative emergence—where the gods come to drink—the semi-wild language of the world crosses over into human modes of overhearing." - Matt Syrdal
The first fish
I ever caught
would not lie down
quiet in the pail
but flailed and sucked
at the burning
amazement of the air
and died
in the slow pouring off
of rainbows. Later
I opened his body and separated
the flesh from the bones
and ate him. Now the sea
is in me: I am the fish, the fish
glitters in me; we are
risen, tangled together, certain to fall
back to the sea. Out of pain,
and pain, and more pain
we feed this feverish plot, we are nourished
by the mystery.
- Mary Oliver, The Fish
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