The Enchantment of Discovery Through Storytelling
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This Sunday: The Enchantment of Discovery Through Storytelling
Philosophic & Psychologic exploration of the notion of Enchantment
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This week, we invite you to explore the philosophical and psychological aspects of enchantment.
In an age of disenchantment, enchantment invites a renewed way of seeing — not as naïve wonder, but as attunement to the symbolic vitality of existence. Jacques Derrida’s notion of difference reminds us that meaning forever slips beyond capture; the world is always more than our words for it. To live within that openness is to experience reality as dynamic and alive — a field of traces and possibilities rather than fixed truths.
Storytelling gives shape to this enchantment. For Joseph Campbell, myth expresses the universal rhythm of transformation — the hero’s journey as a pattern of separation, ordeal, and return. Yet Maureen Murdock, drawing on Jungian depth psychology, reframed this narrative as The Heroine’s Journey: not the conquest of the outer world, but the healing of inner divisions between masculine striving and the denied feminine. Her work restores mythic wholeness where modernity often fractures it.
Together, Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of indeterminacy, Joseph Campbell’s mythic structure, and Maureen Murdock’s feminine revision reveal meaning as a living process — not discovered, but enacted. Enchantment becomes the recognition that story, psyche, and world are intertwined acts of creation. To tell a story, then, is to participate in being itself — to make the invisible visible, and to remember that every narrative is a form of becoming.
We hope you'll join Plato’s Cave and the Orlando Stoics for this thought-provoking discussion.
READING MATERIALS
Jacques Derrida
https://iep.utm.edu/jacques-derrida/
Joseph Campbell
https://www.campfirewriting.com/learn/reading-joseph-campbell-will-help-your-writing
Or
https://www.jcf.org/learn/joseph-campbell-heros-journey
Maureen Murdock
https://screencraft.org/blog/how-screenwriters-can-embrace-the-heroines-journey/
Journal of Research Practice
Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revising
https://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/9/18.html
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