Enter the world of Martin Shaw, mythologist, mystic, and bard. You’ll find it familiar since you spent time there as a child- that open space where you sit and listen. But you’ll also find it strange-
a place where the brain is confounded and the heart becomes the organ of understanding.
Here you must let go of the search for a moral of the story. You’ve been invited into an experience just as paradoxical as our own lives and times. For the mythic stories do not come simply from one mind, but were created with the energies of the earth herself in conversation with a reflective, sensual, troubled being and passed through the mouths and hearts of innumerable storytellers.
You don’t have to figure it out. Let it settle in your heart and see what happens. Your felt experience is the thing. Reality is word-less, symbol-less.
Try out your listening with Fox Woman Dreaming.
For my friends in recovery from disordered eating, the myths and stories collected by Anita Johnston may be healing to sit with. Find them here.