Coppicing the hero’s journey, with Toko-pa Turner

In Module 7 of Rewilding Mythology, Toko-pa Turner expands upon the history of the masculine archetype and the centrality of the hero's journey in the overculture. She asks how we can move beyond the collective possession by this hero archetype, offering Jungian insights, weaving ecology and mythology, and focusing on the story of Sophia, the embodiment of wisdom, as some potential answer.

✴︎ ABOUT THIS SESSION ✴︎

Coppicing the Hero’s Journey: Arthurian Legends, Fairytales, and Animism

Our bodies are composed of more bacterial cells than human cells. There are miles of mycelial fungi in a teaspoon of dirt. Resilient ecosystems are resilient in that they are home to many different species. While monomyths like the hero’s journey have long been popular, they are no longer suited to the moral and scientific complexity of extinction, ecocide, and climate change. Monologue will not save us. But polyphonic – multi-voiced – storytelling might open up adjacent possibilities. How can we rewild the Arthurian myths, turning a collection of monologue-ing heroes into a collaborative ecology of differences?

✴︎ ABOUT TOKO-PA TURNER ✴︎

Toko-pa Turner is an award-winning author, teacher, and dreamworker. Blending the mystical tradition of Sufism in which she was raised with a Jungian approach to dreamwork, she founded the Dream School in 2001 from which thousands of students have since graduated. Toko-Pa is the author of the award-winning book, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, which explores the themes of exile and the search for belonging. Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa’s work focuses on restoring the feminine, reconciling paradox, and facilitating grief & ritual practice.

⤹ ABOUT THE COURSE:
For most of human history, myth was a durable mode of knowledge transmission, kept alive and resilient by the breath-laced web of communal storytelling. But the rise of empire depended on the deracination of mythologies. Just as landscapes were stolen and terraformed so were whole pantheons uprooted from their social and ecological contexts. How can we reroot, rewild, and retell? Rewilding Mythology is an eight-week multi-teacher online course, curated by Sophie Strand, featuring a pantheon of storytellers, artists, scholars, practitioners and more. Find out more about + purchase this course at https://advaya.life/courses/rewilding...

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