There is something about claiming your Psyche and losing you Personality. This is especially so for the writers of new stories. Stories that will one day motivate and instruct. We must allow ourselves moments of being captured by the Muses (if not the Angels of Creativity- Archangel Gabrielle I'm looking at you!) and allow them to take us to the river's reflective waters in order to see that we aren't sheep; but lions.
Writers today have no excuse for not pushing the limits and midwifing, if not birthing, a new day with a new story. Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung were two ground breakers who crushed the divider which kept the storytellers from writers, in addition to, giving both the understanding of what made the myths and folklore of Ancient and Olden as transformational as they were/are. Not only did these gentlemen break barriers, but like any constructive elder, they laid foundation for the next generation. Now, don't misunderstand, I don't agree with everything that those two wild and crazy guys did, but I do get their intentions. The intentions point of origins I understand. I don't make the mistake of taking what they said out of the context in which they said it. Their biggie statement that get me is the proclamation stating -in not so many words- that women didn't necessarily having to go on a dragon slaying journey when the real dragon was the Shadow Self. But according to them the causes and motivations for the journey, women already had within them. So, they asked, why would women risk hide and hair to do the same thing that men were doing? I understand their thinking but time has proven their final decisions in this manner to be as solid as Darwin's decision about evolution. Yet, we cannot deny that we can combine the ideal journey these two gentlemen saw, and build a new. I, personally, stand on their shoulders and show them that the elixir which the feminine energy returns with is just as needed by the community- if not more so. I use strong feminine characters who believe in a force larger than themselves, use a weapon just as well as they use their wit, and most importantly these female characters strive pass the need to unite with and imitate the masculine. I'm certain that I'm not the only female writing myths for the human community. If I am then I invite you. Come jump in the deep end of the pool. With each day, I understand more about mythology of yesterday so I can contribute to the new myth that has been growing since the 1990s. The great myths of tomorrow for tomorrow. Those myths which still goes about penetrating the labyrinth of the earthling psyche whether it be a spiritual being having an earthly experience or an earthly being having a spiritual experience. That is the myth that I work for and on. And, I'm loving every moment. As Campbell would say, I've found my Bliss. May you find a good story to keep you motivated. Thanks for Listening Sabrina Louise Andielle
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