EVENT 1: OpeningMichael opens with a ritual song and poem. He shares a Dagara lament for a world gone wrong, showing how myth holds us when life unravels. He turns to William Stafford’s poem on being lost, pointing to the soul’s inner spark—a star-thread within each of us. When the world loses its orientation, myth and story help us find that thread and bring it back into the world.
Part 1- Class 1: Mythic Time and our story
Modern life has lost its touch with the eternal and become trapped in the spell of linear time, which makes everything appear to rush toward an end. In mythic imagination, though, every ending is a beginning. Each person carries a spark of the cosmos, making us living stories meant to grow deep and high. That way we are woven into the larger fabric of existence. When we place our personal struggles inside myth, they reveal new meaning and help us understand the story we are living.
Part 1- Class 2: We live in Creation Times
Myth reminds us that creation always begins with chaos. When the world unravels, it is not only collapse but also the opening for renewal. Michael tells the story of the Old Woman weaving in her cave. This shows how the world is continually made, undone, and reimagined into an even greater vision. Her weaving holds the core mystery; life, death, and rebirth.
Part 1- Class 3: Not Heroism, yet Imagination
Heroism is not what this time calls for. What we need is imagination. By entering these stories, we recover the hidden Imagination in us. This allows the eternal to flow back into life, helping to restore healing and wholeness to a fragmented world.
Part 1- Class 4: Indian story about Prajapati
The tale of Prajapati reveals that creation arises not only from joy and abundance but also from loneliness, sorrow, and loss, showing that both light and shadow feed the creative process.
Part 1- Class 5 : Stories to support the individuation process
True healing begins with tending our own wounds before offering help to others. Through this, we become wounded healers, able to meet others with compassion. Stories guide this process by letting us see ourselves in a larger vision and contribute to reweaving the world.
Part 1- Class 6: Kairos Time
In troubled times, myth points us toward kairos—the break in time that opens opportunity. When structures collapse, moments of awakening appear, calling each person to their genius and the gifts they were born to give.
Part 1- Class 7: Rite of passage
The world is in the middle of a collective rite of passage, moving from loss into a liminal stage of uncertainty. The myths remind us that vision and renewal often arise in darkness, when people are willing to seek knowledge beyond themselves. By connecting to archetypal energies of creation, initiation, and healing, we find strength to endure and contribute to the remaking of community and world.
Part 1- Class 8: Trapped in the literal
Meade advises therapists to use stories to help clients find hidden wholeness. Invite clients to name where they sit in the story, then gently pull the soul-thread toward healing. Bless moments of genuine deep self and foster friends of the soul who reaffirm meaning.
Part 1- Class 9: A myth of going on
The story of Isaac shows how inertia can hold us back, even when we are closest to our treasure. By accepting the rut rather than denying it, we may discover that the gold lies near the place we are stuck. Descent stories remind us that renewal often begins by going down into the depths to recover what was lost.
Part 1- Class 10: The story of Long Arrow
The tale of Long Arrow shows how stories awaken inner vision and callings buried in memory and soul. Myth reminds us that we are meant to open our inner eyes, to see the world with imagination and depth, not just with surface sight. Standing deeply in our own story, we become like seers or soothsayers, receiving wisdom from both past and future to help reweave the world.
Part 1- Class 11: Opposite stories and closing
When polarization hardens, people cling to opposing stories and believe they live in separate worlds. Myth shows this tension of opposites has always existed, yet healing comes through many kinds of stories that weave us back into one shared fabric. To live fully, we must risk foolish projects, follow imagination, and recognize kairos moments where renewal enters life.
EVENT 2
Opening Michael begins with an earth song that evokes the soul’s need for genuine ground and belonging. He explores “subtle earth,” the fragile inner foundation that nourishes intimacy, imagination, and soulful community. Even in troubled times, each voice can join the song of creation and carry life forward.
Part 2- Class 1: Two ways of perceiving the world
Michael contrasts the literal, external view with the subtle, esoteric perception that reveals soul and meaning. Crisis invites awakening of the inner pattern woven into each life, even as the ego resists change. By turning inward, we reconnect with nature’s constant renewal and recover the gifts seeded in the soul.
Part 2- Class 2: Each soul is unique
Each soul arrives gifted and aimed, carrying unique qualities meant to serve the world’s renewal. Early abandonment wounds and family blindness obscure these gifts, shaping the ego as a fragile defense. In times of crisis, both wounds and gifts surface together, inviting awakening to the deeper story within.
Part 2- Class 3: Father curses and mother spells
Family wounds often take the form of curses and spells that shape the soul’s early story. Every curse conceals a hidden blessing, pressing us toward the very gifts we are meant to embody. By breaking spells and seeking true blessings, we awaken purpose, crossing from family fate into soul destiny.
Part 2- Class 4: Fate and Destiny
Life unfolds between fate’s limits and destiny’s call, each soul shaped by both wound and aim. Ancient myths remind us that we are threaded to the stars, guided by genius and inner gifts. Even in dark times, remembering destiny awakens purpose, helping us participate in the world’s rebirth.
Part 2- Class 5: Curses and spells of omission
Absence itself can wound—the unreachable father or the mother’s withheld touch leaves ghostly imprints within. These omissions create subtle spells that obscure gifts until mentors or guides awaken their hidden blessing. Every wound conceals a seed of transformation, where the curse of lack becomes the ground for creation.
Part 2- Class 6: Two big theories about the soul
Modern culture imagines the soul as blank, yet ancient traditions see it born unique and gifted. Life’s crises mark the end of childhood and invite a rebirth, when the soul’s inner eyes awaken. Without true rites of passage, we risk losing touch with initiation, now reappearing through collapse and renewal.
Part 2- Class 7: Archetype of initiation
Without rites of passage, the ego resists breaking open, leaving souls unawakened and culture unrenewed. True initiation reveals the genius within, gifts hidden until they are seen, named, and blessed. Rebirth must happen many times in life, each crisis awakening the latent code of the soul.
Part 2, Class 8: Personal crisis as initiation
Every crisis carries the structure of initiation, pressing the soul toward descent, rebirth, and renewal. When viewed symbolically, loss and upheaval become baptisms—immersions that awaken hidden dimensions of being. Both the world’s turmoil and our personal struggles are invitations to re-enter life with transformed vision.
Part 2- Class 9: Gifts and wounds
Every soul is born both gifted and wounded, with each wound lying beside a hidden gift. True initiation requires facing trauma as the gateway to purpose, not merely repeating its pain. When gifts are unrecognized or withheld, they become a weight on the soul instead of gold.
Part 2- Class 10: Supporting others on their journey
When helping others, the most important thing is that we live authentically our own life. Otherwise we can not be of service to others. For example children return home, old family roles resurface, risking regression instead of soulful growth. Parents can help only by engaging their own second half of life — the deeper journey of soul, creativity, and meaning beyond parenting. True guidance arises when we embody our own path.
Part 2- Class 11: The muse as way of seeing
The muse represents our unique way of perceiving life, where vision itself becomes creative. When the eyes of the soul awaken, ordinary events reveal hidden meaning and subtle psychological depth. Following the muse is to follow the soul’s genius, where perception itself becomes a form of salvation.
Part 2- Class 12: The calling is not randomly calling
A true calling arises from the genius already within, not from chance or accident. Every soul has a purpose woven deep in its being, and the calling keeps returning until heard. Discovering it may come through talent, crisis, or loss, yet always reveals our way of serving life.
Part 2- Class 13: Eternal youth and wise elder
At the end of an era, life feels heavy with endings, yet the soul remains youthful. Myth teaches us to honor the youngest inner figure, who holds neglected dreams and hidden solutions. True elders embody this union—wisdom shaped by wounds, kept alive through the eternal youth within.
Part 2- Class 14: Family and calling
To belong in family and culture, we often neglect parts of the soul’s true nature. Initiation involves reclaiming these rejected pieces, where forgotten genius and long ideas of spirit lie waiting. By following this thread, each person adds their music to the world’s renewal, serving both soul and earth.
Closing
The closing weaves poetry and song into blessing. A poem by Hafez invites us to behold the soul’s hidden beauty, followed by the Dagara song sung as prayer for ourselves, for others, and for the earth.
