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Daniel Deardorff
Daniel Deardorff is a "Singer" in the old sense of that word, which involves being a musician, a storyteller, and a maker of ritual. He has been a composer and a performing artist for more than four decades. As an independent scholar of myth Deardorff's emphasis is on mythopoesis [myth-making] and the performative aspects of mythic expression. He is the author of The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture & Psyche and is also the founder of The Mythsinger Foundation
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Posted on June 28, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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The mythic Image, and mythworld dwellers dance into this world on the bridge of the storyteller's breath—the Awen of poetic inspiration
Belinda Gore, Goodman's long time friend and colleague and now president of the Cuyamungue Institute has a new book out as well called:The Ecstatic Experience - Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys.
Also check out Steven and Whitney Boe's new film -…
What fun to discover my mentor for Postures in this video I've never seen. To learn more about Felicitas' discoveries, check out the group here at MythSingers called Ecstatic Wisdom Postures and also my own website:http://www.deborahmilton.com. I ha…
This is an old Irish tale. there are good versions in Zimmer's The King and the Corpse as well as in Mead's The Water of Life. If you want to read another version online you can find it at http://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/fip78.htm
We can cont…
just a reminder; we'll call the fire at 6:15 and then talk, drum and sing till everyone else arrives. The invocation and story begins at 7:30.
Odin's Day Nov. 25 is the next storynight! I wonder what Grandfather Fire has in store for us? See you then I hope.
An interesting video. Ritual seems so important as an invitation for the otherness of nature and divinity to come into the human world. Authentic ritual seems to have an unknown and unpredictable outcome, perhaps because of this invitation.
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Currently I'm tending to a stew of books on my bedside shelf. I pull a different one out depending on how I want to fall asleep. And since living out in the woods this summer I haven't stopped reading by taper candlelight - blowing out the light whe…
What's written in the garden soil? What's sitting on your bedside table? What are our common references? Let's see what kind of wild library we have between us!
This site is a place for discussion, news, announcements and all things connected to the "First Friday Story Night at Better Living Trough Coffee"
Community Song Celebration - A Benefit Concert at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
November 11, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
SONGWRITING WORKS on the OLYMPIC PENINSULA (SWOP) will host a musical celebration of original songs composed in Jefferson and Clallam county with local elders, their families, and friends as part of a year-long project funded by the National Endowme…
This Russian story is most often called Vasilisa the Beautiful. There are many stories (like the Firebird) that feature Vasilissa (In the same way that Ivan is usually the name of the hero) but this is the only one I know in which she is a child, so…
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Its Nicky here all the way reconnecting from Melbourne Australia. I think of the wonderful times I shared with you, Birch and Judith and often play Judiths CD. Its brings me peace. I miss the authenticity and amazement of you guys; the stories around the fire and the music you shared with me. Anyway I hope you are all doing well over there and maybe somehow through the wonderful world of cyberspace and this wonderful site we can all keep in touch. I would love that. Love from me here in Aus and doing well. Miss you all. Love Nicky xxoo
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Dean
I do believe I may meet you soon thanks to the desire on Mike Seymour's and Pushkara's parts to "animate" the Awakening the Dreamer symposium with myth and ritual and song/story. I am so grateful that you have put this website together and that Pushkara told me about it. Mythsingers feels like family, especially with the abundance of folks from the NW and England. . .Though my soul is rooted by the mountains and wild, my heart sings with the kin found in those two other, more watery regions of this precious planet. Thank you and eager anticipation of being in your presence soon. Deborah
PS Do you have a guidebook for how to negotiate the site? Sometimes my clicks don't activate anything!.. .like when I want to invite a friend or become a friend. I want to join the Mythic Journeys group - you and the originators are the only members so far, but the system won't let me do it. Thanks for any help.
And my wife Sondra and I would like to be on the circulation for your monthly story circle,
thank you and blessings, Andrew
Peace and courage,
PJ
How is the Vancouver trip working out? I finished the Branch/Shaw book. Guess Finn Mc Cool is just around the corner as I have seen our tracks cross when I came back around looking to where I have been. Have you seen him?
I leave Saturday for somewhere. Love you, B
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