Myth America®: Kindling Wild Imagination
The stories that we tell. The stories that tell us.™
Why do we think what we think?
Believe what we believe?
Value what we value?
Beneath every belief and battle, every dream and division, live older forces — metaphors, archetypes, images, and myths — shaping how we understand ourselves and each other.
The old myths aren’t burning down.
The country is.
Myth America is an act of remembering and reimagining — a quest to peel back inherited stories, kindle imagination, and light new fires of meaning in a time of fracture and forgetting.
After four years broadcasting on NPR affiliate stations, Myth America returns as a global podcast: a hearth for meaning, memory, myth, and possibility.
Come if you’re ready to imagine wilder worlds —
and to build them.
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Hungering for a break away from the doldrums of a long winter? Join Myth America host Leigh Melander on a course on the Jung Platform! Living a Mythic Life Step toward your soul by leaning [...]
On a Birthday!
Myth America | Episode Four | On a Birthday! Today (March 26) is mythologist Joseph Campbell's birthday. It's also my birthday! I thought I'd share a musing on the nature of birthdays - mythically, imaginally, metaphorically. [...]
Death of an Era (An Episode from the Vault)
Join us for a really cool conversation with longtime music executive Chris Hensley, from our Myth America vault...this show was recorded live on WIOX Community Radio 91.3 FM on January 26, 2016. Among hundreds of [...]
Chickadees and Small Wonders in the Coming of Spring
Early March, and spring is maybe, just maybe, on the horizon. The light is changing, and there is a new song in the woods. We think of robins and crocuses as the harbingers of spring, [...]
Mythos & Logos
Mythos & Logos We like to delineate, us humans. We want things to be different. And we want our way to be better. That tends to takes us to defining the world in binary ways - pitching [...]
Living in Mythic Times
Are we living in mythic times? Myth sits in the paradox of being both/and. It is true and untrue. It is metaphor – meta – carrying, phor – across – making meaning by moving from [...]