Mythic Journey of the Modern Lawyer

Course Overview

We often approach life as though we are just “everyday people” going about our work, living out our relationships and doing the best we can to get ahead. However, there is a deeper level to life—to everyone’s life—that we in the modern West have largely forgotten. It is the level of myth, the level of being in which each of us is a Hero on a journey. Cut off from this perspective, our lives appear mundane, stressful, often meaningless and full of pointless struggle. We are always driving hard to get somewhere, but most of us have long ago forgotten where it is we set out to go. We feel an odd sense of loss, of something missing. We are surviving, perhaps thriving financially, but we have lost a sense of mission.

Nowhere does this sense of loss feel stronger than in our relationship to the mundane world of everyday work. Most lawyers relate to their work as a series of projects, matters or files—a never-ending paper trail stretching into an unseen future marked only by the next billable hour, court date or meeting. This course provides lawyers with a deeper perspective, a new relationship to your work and the retrieval of your purpose or mission in life. You will remember why you wanted to be a lawyer. You will reconnect to your deepest values and dreams. You once again find voice to the Hero in you who wanted to slay some particular dragon, or bring some particular gift to his or her community.

Myth as history has no relevance to your daily life. Understood properly, myth is not historical at all. It is metaphorical. You ARE the mythic hero—the gods and goddesses arise within you, not in the pages of books. This is what the sages have always taught, but it has largely been forgotten in our pursuit of a purely rational, scientific approach to life. We no longer go on mythic quests, we solve problems. Life itself occurs for most of us as simply a series of problems, largely unrelated to one another, set in our path for no apparent reason, and bound to frustrate us continuously until some far-off time when we retire to a lawn chair or a golf course.

In this course you will re-identify with the mythic hero in the deepest parts of your being. You will begin again (or for the first time) the journey of your life, refreshed with a new passion wrought through understanding why the heck you are here and what you came to do. You will develop an entirely new and empowering relationship to work, to clients, to challenges and to the opportunities that come your way. You will no longer have problems to solve. You will have dragons to slay. You will be a powerful force in the courtroom, in the boardroom and in the lunchroom as you re-acquaint yourself to your true nature and to your real purpose for being on the planet.

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