Maryliz Smith Links - InstantEncore

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The Mythic Thread

Earlier this year I was browsing in a bookstore in Portland, Oregon and came across a book entitled The World Behind the World, Living at the Ends of Time by Michael Meade. As soon as I opened its pages, I realized Michael Meade was speaking what I had been experiencing for quite some time but just had not surfaced into my awareness: "Fear and terror grow through the de-spiriting and diminishing of our sense of the earth as part of an eternal and enduring world. By missing the wonder and beauty of the earth, we increase the terror in it." Enter The Mythic Thread. As I continued to turn one page after another, reading the old stories, the ancient stories of the imagination and the creative soul, I began to sense a story that I wanted to tell through the arts. Michael Meade's suggestion that when the end seems near, the best way to help the world involves learning the threads of story that are woven into the soul to begin with. "The conditions in which we find ourselves are the conditions through which we must find our true selves and the dream threaded into our lives from before it began." Over the past number of months, The Mythic Thread has grown into what seems like a template for a presentation that involves music, poetry and prose that points to a thread that is attached to each of our souls. Using my own music as well as music of other composers, along with writings and poems that draw us into a sense of eternity through remembering the inner language written in our bones, a language that carries the wisdom and a return to meaning and connection with this thread that links us with our souls all the way to how we perceive ourselves and one another. To give you a glimpse of what this concert will be, the postcard version is here for you to view.

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