Joseph Campbell's Mythical Soup Campbell reminded us how
important myths are in shaping human culture and our own
individual world-views. Of course, mythology cannot be truly
understood in the narrow way it is commonly (mis)used today. In
contemporary popular lingo a myth is an unnecessary
falsification of reality. myths are much more than that. The
psychologist and scholar Clyde Ford - in his fascinating book
"The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional
Africa" - astutely observes that myths are actually narratives
that attempt to communicate "unceasing truths." are, in fact,
the 'social stories' that heal. For myths supply more than the
moral tag lines we learned early on to associate with nursery
rhymes and fairy tales. Properly read, myths bring us into
accord with the eternal mysteries of being, help us manage the
inevitable passages of our lives, and give us templates for our
relationship with the societies in which we live, and for the
relationship of these societies to the earth we sha