There is only to be a continuing search for more – as of a mind eager to grow. … a world of change, new thoughts, new things, new magnitudes, and continuing transformation, not of petrification, rigidity, and some canonised found “truth.”*
Joseph Campbell

Cultural change often affects the young first.**
Jean Twenge

Until more recently in human history,
There have always been myths, guiding stories
to help us navigate our existence and potential,
Mythologist Joseph Campbell concluding:
Mythology is apparently
coeval with mankind.*

Tied with our understanding of who we are
and the contribution we bring,
The old myths are no longer able to serve us as we need them to,
And whilst we continue to advance on the outside,
Our inside worlds can be unexplored, unsuccoured, even
scary places.

My sense is that some of the old myths,
Re-imagined, will nurture us,
But each of us is capable of shaping our own myth, most likely
Woven with the more timeless from the ancient that always allowed
For this cocreating to be the best of ways, understanding that we are
shapers, makers, artists, imagineers.

A morning when you become a pure vessel
For what wants to ascend from silence …
To reach beyond silence
And the wheel of repitition. …
In order to come to birth
In a clean line of form,
That claims from time
A rhythm not yet heard
That calls space to
A different shape.^

*Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By;
**Jean Twenge’s iGen;
^John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: For the Artist at the Start of the Day.