MuseQuest™

The Details

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Page Contents

• About the Program
• Suggested Sources - Start List
• Basic Concepts
• Policies

About the Program

Your Path

• This program is about your search for inspiration in your work, play and/or life.
• It is an adventure - a quest within yourself.
• It is focused on you and your "inner muse" - that part of you that is or can be your personal source of creativity, imagination and problem solving; that aspect of your Self, both as an individual and as part of society, which is the basis for your decisions and expressions.
• The techniques offered in this program are different methods of digging within yourself for the elements of your personality and culture - your mythos.
• Much of the course is self-study and exercise. This quest takes you inward on a path only you can travel. The contents of this program are tools to assist you on this journey and the program's mentor is available to answer your questions and offer suggestions.
• There will be opportunities to meet with others in the program to network and share "tales of the road".

Offline Program

• Located in Seattle.
• Group meetings times and places to be determined. Please consult the program's mentor.
• Individual meetings with the mentor by appointment.
• Further information, activities and tutorials provided by mentor in meetings and group sessions.

Online Program

• Within the domain www.pantarbe.com. This site is the entry way.
• Once enrolled, the mentor will provide you with the program's Main Page, a username and a password.
• Information, activities and tutorials provided online.
• Individual meetings with the mentor occur through e-mail, private chat (when technically possible).
• Group interaction through e-mail, a webboard for posting messages, possibly group chats (when technically possible).
• Course project to be displayed on a web page within the program's domain. The mentor will assist in programming the web pages as needed.

Correspondence Program

• For those wishing it, the online program can be conducted through snail mail (US Post) as a correspondence course.
• Please consult the mentor for arrangements.

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Suggested Sources - Start List

MuseQuest realizes there are many paths to one's muse.  The key is to find one that works for you. Throughout the program, lists of books, media materials, and online sites will be provided that point to some of these paths so that you can learn about and explore them.

To start you off, here are some books that have been helpful to the program's mentor.  MuseQuest is based upon their synergy.

Writing As A Road to Self-Discovery
by Barry Lane; copyright 1993 by Barry Lane

The Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning In Your Life Through Writing And Storytelling
by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox; copyright 1973, 1989 by Sam Keen and Anne Valley Fox

Personal Mythology, The Psychology Of Your Evolving Self: Using Ritual, Dreams, and Imagination To Discover Your Inner Story
by David Feinstein, Ph.D and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.; copyright 1988 by David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner

Quest: A Guide for Creating Your Own Vision Quest
by Denise Linn with Meadow Linn; copyright 1998 by Denise Linn and Meadow Linn

The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Storytellers And Screenwriters
by Christopher Vogler; copyright 1992 by Christopher Vogler

Once Upon A Time: On The Nature Of Fairy Tales
by Max Luthi; copyright 1970 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc.

Morphology Of The Folktale
by V. Propp; copyright 1968 by the American Folklore Society

The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live by, 3rd Edition
by Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D.; copyright 1986, 1989, 1998 by Carol S. Pearson

The Power Of Myth: Joseph Campbell With Bill Moyers
Editor, Betty Sue Flowers; copyright 1988 by Apostrophe S Production, Inc. and Alfred van der Marck Editions

Reflections On The Art Of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion
Selected and Edited by Diane K. Osborn; copyright 1991 by the Joseph Campbell Foundation

Modern Man In Search Of A Soul
by Carl Gustov Jung; first published 1933

Man's Search For Himself
by Rollo May, Ph.D.; copyright 1953 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Also relevant

Any other sources on psychology, mythology, cultures/society, spirituality, and creative processes - particularly those by, about, or influenced from Carl Jung and/or Joseph Campbell.

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Basic Concepts

Mythos
The pattern of basic values and historical experiences of a people, characteristically transmitted through the creative arts as a collection of myths.

Personal Mythos
The pattern of basic values and life experiences of an individual, which serves as a model or map for interacting with reality and its mysteries.

Muse
That aspect of a person which is in tune with his or her personal mythos and which brings it to his or her awareness through intuition, imagination and dreams.

MuseQuest™
A program which provides tools - techniques and information - that involve creative processes and problem solving, that exercise one's intuition, imagination and dreams, and that focus on one's personal mythos.

Myth
A story, real of fictional, that appeals to the consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals and/or giving expression to deep, commonly felt emotions through mythogems.

Personal Myth
A story, real or fictional, that appeals to the consciousness of an individual by embodying the individual's ideas and/or giving expression to deeply felt emotions through mythogems.

Mythogem
A recurring theme, motif, or character type which is usually supernatural, ancestral and/or heroic and often patterned after archetypes.

Archetype
An invisible, primal model,paradigm, metaphor or symbol within one's mind that remains unchanged over time and space, represents aspects of one self, controls how one experiences the world, and inspires similar patterns in the creative arts, literature, myth, legends, religion, and dreams.

Mythopoeia
Myth-making; the creation of myths; mythopoesis.

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Policies

Enrolling

• To enroll, please contact the mentor by
  • mailing to MuseQuest™, BAM Works/Webcraft™, PO Box 21809, Seattle, WA 98111-3809
  • e-mailing to bamworks@aol.com RE MuseQuest
  • [clicking here for online form]
• Registration information

  Please include name, address, phone, e-mail, FAX, and a brief note on how participating in MuseQuest will help you.

Payment

• No payment is due until the third week for the Program(s).
• However, you are welcome to pay before then.

  Please mail a check or money-order made out to Benjamin A Miller (the program's mentor) to MuseQuest™, BAM Works/Webcraft™, PO Box 21809, Seattle, WA 98111-3809

Refunds

• Early Withdrawl

  $7.50 per each week left over in program.

• Before the third week

  Full Refund if already paid.

Participation

This program is based on "learn by doing."
It is expected that those enrolling will attend all group sessions, meet regularly with the mentor, and work on their own self-discovery and creative project(s).

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