I’ve been dipping in and out of Stephen Larsen’s book, The Mythic Imagination: The Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology for a while now. It’s become an ongoing companion that keeps nudging me to explore how I exercise my own mythic imagination.

I find myself tapping into this deeper way of seeing whenever I’m walking in the woods or doing one of my shamanic journeys. There’s something about being in those spaces, surrounded by nature or in the stillness of inner exploration, where myth and symbol come alive for me. It’s as if they rise up from the earth or the depths of my mind, guiding me through the familiar patterns of life—birth, death, love, and transformation.

For me, the mythic imagination is about seeing the world through the lens of myth and symbolic storytelling. It’s about accessing that well of archetypal narratives that sit at the core of who we are, as humans.

These stories aren’t outdated or irrelevant; they’re alive, dynamic, and constantly shifting but always reflecting something essential. Myths, to me, are like mirrors that reflect my subconscious mind back to me. They are stepping stones to the collective unconscious.

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how I might bring this sense of the mythic into my coaching practice. It feels like an untapped resource, something that could help people access the deeper, archetypal stories that are shaping their lives, whether they’re aware of them or not.

I think weaving mythic wisdom into the work I do would help people see their lives as part of a greater, unfolding story.