Ancient Clues, Modern Amnesia πΊπ±
"Myths are public dreams, and dreams are private myths." β Joseph Campbell
At some point
I stopped reading the lines on my palm
and let the glow of the screen
convince me it knew better.
Hours lost,
scrolling,
as if wisdom came packaged
in someone elseβs caption.
Meanwhile,
the answers waited,
silent, carved into the bones
I refused to touch.
There was a time when wisdom wasnβt Googled.
It was etched into stone.
Breathed into firelight stories.
Embedded in rituals, symbols, and dreams.
The ancients didnβt have apps.
But they had archetypes.
They didnβt have therapists.
They had myths.
And somehow⦠they knew.
βThey left us clues in myths, carved in stone; yet we scroll past searching for answers.β
They knew about grief. And ego. And shame.
They knew how power corrupts, how desire distorts, how fear seduces.
They knew the soul isnβt just emotional. Itβs structured.
Structured like story.
Not random. Not surface-level. Not fast.
But layered. Patterned. Deep.
We think weβve evolved because we can stream documentaries on consciousness and neuroscience.
But in many ways, weβve just replaced meaning with information.
We scroll past the sacred, looking for the viral.
We skip the hard questions in favor of ten-step hacks.
But truth doesnβt work like that.
Healing doesnβt either.
What we call "modern problems" often have ancient roots.
And the tools? They were left for us. Right there. In the cave paintings. The parables. The symbols we now label βprimitive.β
Primitive? No.
They werenβt primitive.
They were precise. And we forgot how to read.
These small notes arrive quietly,
like morning light through a cracked window.
No noise. Just truth.
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Try this:
Pick a myth. Any myth.
Greek. Norse. Indigenous. Biblical. Doesnβt matter.
Then ask:
βWhat part of me is represented in this story?β
The one who betrays? The one who hides? The one who suffers? The one who burns everything down?
Then write:
βThis character lives in me. What is it trying to teach me?β
Youβre not reading mythology.
Youβre decoding yourself.
You donβt need to look further.
You need to look deeper.
The answers arenβt hiding. Theyβre encoded.
In myths. In memories. In metaphors.
They were never meant to be obvious.
They were meant to be earned. Felt. Lived.
So stop scrolling past the sacred.
Sit with it.
Let it speak in riddles. Let it challenge your logic. Let it reshape your questions.
Because somewhere in those old stories is a map back to yourself.
Whatβs a myth, story, or symbol that found you when you needed it most?
Maybe it wasnβt even from a sacred text. Maybe it was from a movie. A book. A moment of synchronicity.
What did it awaken in you?
Share it with us. Letβs rebuild a sacred libraryβ¦ together.
If youβre here, youβre part of something real, something that holds space for healing without the need to perform. I donβt take that lightly.
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If it holds your ache, your becoming, your breath.
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If you think these gentle words cut deep, wait until you read Shadow Thoughts. Thatβs where I let the truth bleed without cleaning it up for anyone.