A Modern Day Adventure: Hop, Skip, And Go Naked

It is more important now than ever before to be selective about what we are learning and how we interact with our natural world.  Armstrong closes her book with defining where we can still find the mythos we so desperately require.  She says, “If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythical lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world” (Armstrong 149).  Frye encourages us to push on in the creation of romance and closes his book by telling us that “it is not until we have shared something of this last Sabbath vision in our greatest romance that we may begin to say that we have earned the right to silence” (Frye 188).  In other words, we need to keep engaging mentally and spiritually in stories and myth that contain the power to transform and expand our awareness.  As for kindling our connection to the natural world, John Muir strapped himself to a tree in a windstorm so he could feel the rhythm of the wind, or you could ride a horse bareback, or watch a sunrise in a mountain meadow.  We have to become the hero or heroine in our own life story, forge our way through the “numbing despair and mental paralysis” that Armstrong defines as our current way of thought, and gallop ourselves forward on some friendly druid horse and into a quest for romance, mythos, and ancient wisdom.