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Myth, Meaning, and Why Ancient Stories Still Matter

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 Introduction This is a podcast where we explore the intersection of mythology, folklore and modern life. I'm Dimitri and I'll be your companion on this journey of discovery. Each episode we'll follow roots charted in the old stories and let them lead us into forgotten currents and toward new shores. Welcome to the Inward Sea. (The Inward Sea Theme: music by Dimitri Roussopoulos) Hello and thanks for joining me in this, the introductory episode of the Inward Sea. This episode is a bit different from what you'll hear in future. It's a chance for me to tell you a bit about myself and share some background information with you about this podcast and why it’s called The Inward Sea. A bit later, I’ll get into what you can expect from future episodes, as well as why and how these old stories, the myths and folktales I’ll be sharing with you, still matter in a world like ours. A Bit About Me Hopefully we'll be spending a bit of time together, you and I. And in case you can’t tell from the background audio - we’re going to be setting out on a voyage of discovery - A journey of exploration on The Inward Sea. Anyway - since we're just setting out, it's probably best to begin with some introductions. My name is Dimitri. I'm a composer, an artist, and an educator. But more importantly for the purposes of this podcast, I’m a collector of stories. I am going to be the voice that you hear on this podcast, but I don’t want to set myself up as the captain of your voyage. The Inward Sea is an image I came across in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. It’s also a poem written by Howard Thurman - although, I only discovered that after I began jotting down my thoughts for the episodes. You see, although I will be offering you insights I have gained as well as a way for you to explore stories for yourself, I don’t ever want you to ever believe that an interpretation or idea I share here is The Truth. It’s very difficult to say capital letters so I hope the idea is coming across here. When I say that I don’t want you to get the idea that what I share here is The Truth (did you hear those capital letters?) I mean that I don’t want you to believe that my interpretation of these stories is the only one or that any insight I share here is somehow dogma in a mythological, philosophical, or psychological gospel. What I share here is a truth - one of many possible interpretations that I have discovered - things that resonated deeply with me and others with whom I have shared them with in various courses and workshops. I hope that you will feel empowered and courageous enough to embark on your own voyage of exploration and, when you return, share what you find with me, too. So, although I’m going to the one doing most of the talking in this show, think of me more like someone who's collected a sea chest full of old maps. Maps, I would like to share with you in the hope that they inspire you to venture out into the deep to discover great things for, and within, yourself. Over the course of many years now, I've done a lot of wandering and quite a bit of mapmaking, and what I've learned over and over again is that each discovery, each nugget meaning or insight that I've gleaned from these stories, opens into deeper mystery. This podcast will be, in many ways, a journal of those explorations. A Bit About Stories As an educator, I've often found myself asking how we ended up surrounded by so much information and yet so cut off from a sense of meaning. I used to think that we were story-starved, that we had somehow wandered too far from the campfire circle of our ancestral storytellers. But that's not quite right, is it? Today, we're not short on stories. We're drowning in them, caught in a great flood of biblical or Babylonian proportions. Narratives and stories swirl around us constantly, competing for our attention, our emotional investment, and demanding our allegiance. They pour from the screens we carry around in our pockets. They arrive dressed as news or as entertainment, even as self-help manuals. Many of the stories we are fed today aren’t about truth or genuine connection or personal growth—they’re about power. They’re crafted to capture our attention, to sell us something, and dictate who we should be in order to fit in and feel validated by others. In the process, they distract us from what truly matters, encouraging us to trade authentic self-expression and meaningful personal pursuits for superficial behaviours aimed at winning external approval. But that is not what mythology and folklore do: each teller and listener glimpses something different in the same story, a unique reflection shaped by their own inner landscape. And yet, these stories remain shared, communal. The images in them have crossed language and cultural barriers precisely because they speak to the deeper parts of our humanity—the parts we all share. Today, we may find these old stories written on the pages of books or ...
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