ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the potential of a mythical vision to invigorate search for higher meaning. It focuses on the insights gained by tapping into the archetypal patterns and energies that shape mythological landscape, and then return to engaging the practice of accidental ethnography as a pathway toward release from the grips of secrecy. The chapter suggests the possibility of renewed myth-making in the family circle as a pathway toward family healing. The primordial/universal archetypal patterns shared by humans lie at the foundation of the unconscious. A primary archetypal pattern, documented assiduously by Joseph Campbell is the "hero journey." The emergence of archetypal mythical themes within stories small and large is the thread of that sacred energy that is the lifeblood of the human quest for meanin. In the world of myth, the circle of life begins as a trio: mother-father-child.
