Mythic Christ Podcast

Rise Rooted: A Conversation With Rebecca Wildbear Rebecca Wildbear’s story begins in the wordless wonder of childhood, drawn to the mythic embrace of trees even as she grew up in a suburban landscape. Her yard was a small forest, home to many trees, including a giant ash so vast it took three children holding hands to circle its trunk. This early, silent kinship with trees became a guiding thread...

Welcome to a special episode of the Mythic Christ Podcast with your host, Matt Syrdal. Today, is an experiential introduction to the enchanting world of myth, story work, and deep nature connection. Inspired by the rich teachings of Julian of Norwich, we explore the profound significance of a tiny hazelnut, revealing the divine love in all creation. Embark on a personal journey where myths find yo...

Friends, It is my pleasure to introduce our next Awakening Mythic Imagination: Eco-Depth Yearlong program coming August 1st, 2025. This worldview shifting and life-changing certificate course is back with some new changes to content platform and practices rooted in my upcoming book.  The introductory online intensive that begins the yearlong is August 1st thru 3rd, 2025. Registration will close in...

A Mythic Meditation - The Water of Life It is possible that the next story that finds you might just be more than a story. The emergent edge of myth touches the creative powers of the cosmos, for mythtelling at its root is about world-making. We have been story-tellers for hundreds of thousands of years. In the Awakening Mythic Imagination Eco-Depth Yearlong program we inhabit the world of dreamin...

In this episode I interview Ben Katt about his new book "The Way Home" tracing his own "hero's journey" to wholeness at midlife, including stories of change and personal transformation. I hope you enjoy! You can find him at: thewayhomebook.com benjaminkatt.com   ----more---- Ben Katt is a meditation teacher, spiritual coach, and writer. He is the author of The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Jour...

On this episode of Mythic Christ Podcast, join host Matt Syrdal as he reflects on the transformative and intimate experiences of the Awakening Mythic Imagination year-long program. Spanning nine months and following the seasonal cycles, this program invites participants to tune into the Earth's rhythms and engage with world mythologies, great mythic stories, and the Judeo-Christian scriptures from...

Across cultures through time, the Tree is the mythic image of the cosmos, one of the oldest and most deeply rooted of the archetypes. The Tree is a mythic map of whole imaginal realms of visionary and psychic experience holding the mysteries of creation, renewal, life and death, secret knowledge, and initiatory memory. The Great Tree. Our ancestors have hung the bodies of their dead in trees, like...

Special Bonus Episode: Poetic Journey - "Sky Kiva" by Matt Syrdal. This month I wanted to offer a special bonus episode, a poetic journey based on a poem I wrote years ago in Sage Canyon, Colorado called "Sky Kiva." I hope you enjoy! Patreon supporters receive special bonus episodes like this one, guided downloadable spiritual practices, and discounts on programs and immersions. Please consider su...

Over countless millennia, humans have longed for freedom from bondage to the limits of the physical realm of suffering and death… Longed for a portal to the stars, cold, distant, keepers of ancestral wisdom and ancient secrets into the mysteries of the cosmos itself. Behind the primal Mother Goddess stood a void that could not be breached, a holy darkness that was the origin and source of all. Lig...

"When I lean over the chasm of myself— / it seems / my God is dark / and like a web: a hundred roots / silently drinking.” - Rilke trans. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy When we move from the monologue of modern theology and patriarchal cultural values to the myco-logue of mythic consciousness and entangled identity, we discover a whole living root-system of ecstatic participation. Deep in the primord...

Our greatest ability and gift as a species is the imagination. We imagine new possibilities. We imagine ourselves into new futures. Human imagination is uniquely forward reaching, and world creating. The imagination is an inner mirror upon the world itself, reflecting back to us who we really are what the world really is. We are homo poeta, human meaning makers. We bear the burden and gift of this...

"Surge: Deluge of the Divine" will be released, September 19th. Have you noticed a rising and frenetic consumption of information, a frenzied thirst for soundbites and images, that keep our thumbs swiping down our small black glass screens? Something deep and archetypal has been activated in the primal, instinctual layers of the human psyche. Something deep under the surface has been rising expone...

We have lost something as a culture difficult to describe or even to feel. We have lost the language and the ritual container we need to even become conscious these ambiguous losses and the untended grief buried in the body, both individually and collectively. We might sense that Reality itself is on the line. Guy Debord in landmark work, The Society of the Spectacle, written in 1967, tracks the s...