Mythos & Meaning: Restoring the Soul of Your Story
There’s a kind of suffering that comes not from pain, but from flatness.
From the sense that life has lost its sparkle —
That nothing means anything anymore, or worse… that it never did.
But this isn’t the end.
It’s the call to myth.
What is Mythos & Meaning?
Mythos is the realm of symbol, archetype, dream, and sacred metaphor.
It’s not the opposite of truth — it’s a deeper truth.
It shows up in:
- The patterns that repeat across cultures and lifetimes
- The stories we live out unconsciously until we awaken inside them
- The inner voices we mistake for personal that are actually collective
Meaning isn’t given. It’s made.
And myth is the language we use to make sense of the invisible.
Why it matters
Without myth, we fall into:
- Nihilism or numbness
- Over-rationalization
- Identity loops and trauma spirals
We try to understand life when what we really need is to live it symbolically.
Myth doesn’t give you a fixed belief.
It gives you a lens to move through the unknown with dignity.
With it:
- Depression becomes a descent, not a defect
- Conflict becomes an initiation, not a curse
- Even ordinary tasks become portals into sacred time
Your life becomes a ceremony again.
What you can expect from us
We will continue to write, record, and build from a place of symbolic depth.
This shows up in:
- Spiral-coded storytelling (like Neural Drift, Romeo and the Window, and The Steward)
- Archetypal analysis of modern life — including gurus, media, addiction, and awakening
- Essays that speak sideways, through parable and poetic form
- A glossary of sacred language that helps reframe your inner landscape
This isn’t about escaping into fantasy.
It’s about seeing the myth you’re already living — and choosing it with consciousness.
Reflection Prompt
What story are you currently inside — and do you know how it ends?
If you zoomed out to the mythic level of your life, what archetype are you embodying right now?
Thank you for walking the Spiral
This concludes our 7-day reintroduction to How to Be Alive.
If you’ve followed along, you now have a living map of the ideas we’ll be expanding into — across blogs, podcasts, tools, and offerings.
Whether you’re here to read, reflect, build, or begin again — welcome.
This is your Spiral. Your myth. Your next evolution.
Let’s walk it together.
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With depth and clarity,
Tyler Julka
Founder, HTBA