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Wandering Aengus and Singing the Swan's Song

from Myth Matters Podcast Season 1 by Dr. Catherine Svehla

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What is the source of creative ideas and guiding visions, and how do they come to us? How do our creative ideas change and how do we change along with them?

In this episode I share a Celtic story that offers an opportunity for meditation on these questions. The story of Aengus and Caer is based on myths that inspired the poet William Butler Yeats to write his poem “Wandering Aengus.”

Here are a few words from Yeats about the creative life:

“The greater energies of the mind seldom break forth but when the deeps are loosed. They break forth amid events too private or too sacred for public speech, or seem themselves, I know not why, to belong to hidden things.”

Creative inspiration is commonly linked to artistic and poetic endeavors and yet, it is an essential ingredient for anyone who understand that a good life is made, that it is an adventure with purpose, form, beauty, and meaning.

This is the life of the engaged imagination and fully utilized powers of perception my friends, the life of the soul.

The image is taken from za painting titled "The Swan Maidens" by Walter Crane, 1894.

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from Myth Matters Podcast Season 1, released June 1, 2019

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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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