Myths Move: Spore Gods, Storm Gods, and Cycles, with Josh Schrei & Tom Hirons

Snippets from Week 2 of our course Rewilding Mythology. Register for the course at rewilding-mythology.com (you can still join us even after the course has begun-all live sessions are recorded for you to catch up in your own time).
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Ecosystems are constituted by constant cycles of decay and regrowth. We can replant myth in ecology by understanding that storytelling, too, remains healthy when it goes through cycles, decaying, regrowing, and adapting to suit shifting climatological and social pressures. We can examine oral storytelling, forest ecosystems, fungal spores, and a rich mythology of storm gods to begin to understand how we cannot prize ascension over descent, text over spoken word. Healthy mythologies grow connective tissue between dualisms, cultivating fertile mythic gradients between opposing ideologies. Conversely, we can look at what happens when these mythic cycles get interrupted in the examples of patriarchy and material reductionism.
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About Josh Schrei: Joshua Michael Schrei is a writer, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world - in particular the Indian subcontinent. Throughout a lifetime of teaching, study, meditation and yogic practice, wilderness immersion, art, music, and public speaking, Josh has sought to navigate the living, animate space of the imagination and advocate for a world that prioritises imaginative vision.
About Tom Hirons: Tom is a writer and storyteller whose particular interests are finding ways to speak and write with eloquence and power, and how those qualities might be cultivated through truth-telling, word-craft, paying keen attention to the world and knowing who we are in this life. His most well-known works are 'Nettle-Eater' and 'Sometimes a Wild God.' As well as having co-founded Hedgespoken Press and Hedgespoken travelling storytelling theatre, Tom is also a wilderness fast guide, a community acupuncturist and a writing and storytelling mentor. He's a father of two young, wild sons and lives just south of Dartmoor in England. Find out more at www.tomhirons.com

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