Mythic Journeys

Mythic Journeys is a performance festival and conference gathering held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 2004, it began as a celebration of the works of Joseph Campbell and has expanded into a celebration of the role of myth and storytelling in the modern world.

Organized by the Mythic Imagination Institute, the conference attracts such guests as Deepak Chopra, James Hillman, Robert Bly, Janis Ian, John and Caitlin Matthews, Wendy and Brian Froud, Joyce Carol Oates, Terri Windling, Ulla Suokko,[1] and many other participants from such fields as psychology, religion, science, literature, education, entertainment, and the arts.[2][3][4][5]

Mythic Journeys documentary

Released in 2009, the documentary film Mythic Journeys was written and directed by Stephen and Whitney Boe. With footage taken from the 2006 Mythic Journeys festival,[6] the movie includes animation and short film segments about the role of mythology & mysticism in modern society and storytelling, featuring interviews with Deepak Chopra and Michael Beckwith. Documentary footage is placed within a frame story for which Brian and Wendy Froud created the puppets[7] and actors Tim Curry, Mark Hamill and Lance Henriksen provided the voices.

gollark: > I want the scientists in society to have a place to exist too.I mean, I don't disagree, but just "give whoever rents it first a freeish house" doesn't seem like a good mechanism for that. Unless you mean they do "give whoever they find cool a freeish house", which is... also bad in other ways.
gollark: If it was actually possible to add more housing, it would be much easier to fix.
gollark: We somehow deal with this problem in basically every *other* market.
gollark: If they simply did not awful zoning, land would probably be substantially cheaper (via higher density in places).
gollark: In California apparently the problem is just accursedly awful zoning.

References
  1. "Watering the Jasmines". 2000-07-23. Archived from the original on 2009-11-14. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
  2. "Mythic Journeys '06: Magic In Atlanta". 2000-07-18.
  3. "Sci-Fi Dimensions Conference Report". 2000-07-18. Archived from the original on 2004-06-22.
  4. "A Modern-Day Journey". 2000-07-23. Archived from the original on July 17, 2007.
  5. "Ringer Review of Mythic Journeys". 2000-07-23.
  6. "Mythic Journeys". Imaginal Cells Filmworks. Archived from the original on 2011-11-25.
  7. "Mythic Journeys". World of Froud.


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