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Living Mythos
$144.00 Original price was: $144.00.$88.00Current price is: $88.00.
A Living Mythos is a commissioned, illustrated record of your own story— created from the experiences, relationships, symbols, questions, contradictions and patterns you bring into the process. This is not a prewritten report with your name inserted into it, nor a standardized reading generated from a fixed template. Each Living Mythos begins with one person and one body of material. Your account is studied as a story: its architecture, recurring symbols, unresolved threads, transformations, competing interpretations and the mythic structures it may resemble.
The pages are printed as individual archival-style leaves and housed inside a black cloth, bookcloth or leather-look record binder. The exterior is finished with the Living Mythos crest in metallic gold, individually applied in-studio. Inside, your work becomes something tactile: paper, illustration, typography, diagrams and story gathered into a volume that can actually live on your shelf. Each physical record is individually assembled rather than mass manufactured.
** SHIPS AFTER UP TO 14 DAYS ** a downloadable document will be sent when physical product ships.
Some stories end with answers. Others require you to author your way out.
MYTHOS Your Way Out is an 18-page illustrated field guide for experiences that ended without explanation, apology, resolution, or the ending you thought you were going to receive. This is a journal prompt based workbook.
Through a sequence of Mythos Promptings, you'll separate what is known from what remains unanswered, identify what the unfinished story left behind, reclaim what belongs to you, return what doesn't, and experiment with three different endings—the Merciful Telling, the Severe Telling, and ultimately, the Author's Telling.
This isn't about pretending you know what happened.
It's about no longer requiring the answer before you're permitted to continue the story.