Welcome to the Imaginal Age
About the mystery school
An Eco-Depth Oriented
Mentoring Model:
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Mythic Christ offers spiritual direction and coaching, archetypal and transpersonal psychology, with Soulcraft and Wild Mind approaches (The Animas Valley Institute) to human wholeness and nature-based soul work, to companion on the journey of self discovery, ecological place and deep purpose.​
Cultivating a Relationship with the Self
The Self is the authentic core of the heart: innately wise, compassionate, imaginative, powerful, generative and wild. We can cultivate the transpersonal capacities of our latent wholeness for a more meaningful and authentic life. Mentoring includes wholeness practices, readings, and artwork that helps connect us to the wellspring of our wholeness.
Deepening a Relationship with the World
The deep world is the primordial referent of all existence, an intermediary imaginal realm between the physical and sensory realm of animate nature, the psychic, and spiritual realms. The dreamtime gives us access to the heart of the world and clues to our ultimate place in it. Guided practices such as dreamwork and deep imagery are ways a trained mentor can help you cultivate wholeness and discover the depths of your soul and unique purpose.
Storytelling & Mythwork
Words make worlds, and the human world is made of stories. We are 'homo poeta', storytellers who weave and are woven into particular ecologies of belonging. Through story we can decolonize toxic beliefs about ourselves and our world. Through myth and story we can rewild religious paradigms and reimagine possible futures for our lives and our people.
The Art of Ritual Imagination & Embodiment
Sacrament and symbol draw us near the unspeakable mysteries of nature and the human soul. Ritual imagination awakens a lifestyle of reciprocity in individuals and communities as we learn together ways of embodying these sacred symbols of a deep reverence of life for life and our commitment to renewal as we begin to live in deeper service to the world. Mentoring offers practices for cultivating the ritual imagination and learning the unique art of embodiment, drawing us into regenerative ways of living and serving.
Generative Leadership & Systems
The ultimate goal of mentoring is not to make clients more 'adjusted' to a pathologically adolescent culture, but to create the right kinds of conditions that allow a deep disruption of the internal habits and patterns and the dominant cultural systems including ultimately the worldview it holds in place in our society. Hermetic philosophy summarizes the task of inner-work - as a parallel process to any outer work in the collective sphere - with the simple phrase, "as above, so below." The generative leader of today will be a system disrupter, as the ancient prophets and mystics of the past - an agent of cultural awakening to a new story.
Matt Syrdal MDiv
Founder & Lead Guide
Matt lives on the front range of the ancestral Rocky Mountains near Denver with his family. Matt's spiritual lineage springs from Christian mysticism with decades of pastoral experience, including spiritual direction and coaching. A wilderness guide, trained Wild Mind guide and Soul Initiation Guide in training, Matt has been influenced by the Animas Valley Institute model of Soul-centric human development and the nature-based journey of wholeness and Soul initiation. Matt has been guiding women and men in mentoring and nature-based immersive retreats for fifteen years. Matt was a co-founder of Seminary of the Wild, and launched Mythic Christ Mystery School in 2021.
Matt has a deep background in mythology, the ancient mystery traditions, sacred art, dreamwork, and imaginal. Matt was a contributing writer for a number of publications and is currently working on a new book.
Mythic Christ Mystery School is a religious organization that supports personal transformation and social action through a framework of nature-based human development. Our gatherings, immersions, and online guided community are designed to support emergent leadership in an age of climate catastrophe. We seek to offer a container and deep community for interfaith spiritual leaders and those grounded in the mystical Christ tradition to explore the visionary realm of the deep imagination, ritual, sacramental living, and cultural action grounded in the sacred mysteries.
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The Mythic Christ Podcast offers a paradigm for exploring personal growth and collective transformation through the lens of scriptures, myth and archetype. Online content and practices are designed to help individuals deepen their spiritual journey. The Awakening Mythic Imagination: Eco-Depth Yearlong Program is an advanced, guided program for cultivating personal wholeness, reconnecting with nature, and exploring a new framework for human development from religious scriptures, world mythologies, and depth psychology.
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The four pillars of Mythic Christ Mystery School are: direct experience, mythtelling, praxis, and creative community, and a whole range of practices and group work explore the intrapersonal, the interpersonal, and the transpersonal layers of experience and growth.