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“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its messages much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.” ----Milan Kundera

The weekend of Sept 12-14th was the first annual Synchronicity: Matter and Psyche Symposium. It was a very rich event, combining perspectives from science, psychology, the arts, and archaeology. I brought Mythic Coyote to the event to help us answer the question: how can we consciously engage with the phenomenon called synchronicity?

Our experience of synchronicity belongs to the mythic dimension of our lives. The mythic dimension is where matter and psyche, visible and invisible, what we typically call inner, and outer- meet, reflect, shape, create, converse. What we call “mythology” is the narrative and artistic form that we have given to our experience of this exchange.

In mythic dimension we might call synchronicity “opportunity,” and we might say that someone who notices, uses, harmonizes with the power of synchronicity has “smart luck.” This leads us to a character called the Trickster, and here in the Mojave, trickster is Coyote… who the Chemeheuvi’s call “Mythic Coyote.”

In this program Dr. catherine Svehla talks about Mythic Coyote and tell the story of Coyote and Buffalo Bull.

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from Matter and Psyche: Interviews with Presenters at the 2014 Synchronicity Symposium, released October 29, 2014
This program was recorded by Dr. Catherine Svehla for Myth in the Mojave. Thanks to Radio Free Joshua Tree for providing us with a home on internet radio.

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Dr. Catherine Svehla Fort Collins, Colorado

Storyteller, scholar, artist, & desert activist with a PhD in mythology & depth psychology.

Myths & stories contain the wisdom of the human race. I want to know how we can keep the mystery in life alive? How can myths connect us to a larger sphere of being & meaning?

Many of these tracks are Myth in the Mojave programs that first aired online on Radio Free Joshua Tree.

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