"Mythic Journeys "
The Film

DESCRIPTION: Mythic Journeys is a unique fusion of documentary and animation that shows how mythology and story can change the world.
Every human being has asked the questions: “Who am I?” “What is my purpose?” “Why am I here?” The answers are in the myths that have been passed from generation to generation within civilizations all over the world.

Myths are the reservoir of human wisdom - the stories of life, and we are writing our own mythology by the way we live our lives each day. Our stories will be the writing on the cave walls of the future and our
descendants will know who we were and what we did in the world. It won’t matter how we died, it will only matter how we lived. So ask yourself, will you know who you are when you die or will death have to tell you?

This is not your ordinary documentary and like a mythological story this ambitious project is multi-layered. The film begins with a montage of storytellers, everyday people of various ethnicities, each sharing the opening of a story, “A long time ago, there was a noble king…” and dissolves into a beautiful world of stop-motion animation with puppets
designed and created by internationally acclaimed artists Brian and Wendy Froud (The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth) and voiced by three iconic actors, Tim Curry (Rocky Horror, Legend), Mark Hamill (Star Wars: Episodes IV, V, VI), and Lance Henriksen (Alien, Millennium). Within this animated story the character of The Corpse tells yet another story, a riddle actually, that the king must answer or suffer dire consequences.

This world is then transformed into our world with clips from interviews with notable scholars of myth including Dr. Deepak Chopra and Reverend Michael Beckwith. Each subsequent act then peels back another layer as the film transitions from reality to 3D stop-motion, to 2D art work and back again.

Topics discussed within the interviews include transcending literalism, the definition of the hero’s journey, the commonality of social change movements, accepting mediocrity as the standard in our society, cultural generation gaps, religion vs. spirituality, universal consciousness, and the collective evolution of reality. Now, this list may seem intellectually heady to some, new-agey to others, but don’t judge a book by its cover
(hey, isn’t that a common mythic theme?); the film is intelligible and unpretentious, thought-provoking as well as entertaining, even for the most non-documentary type of crowd, and refreshingly inspirational.

The filmmakers, Steven and Whitney Boe, were introduced to the Science of Mind through Steven's mother, Rev. Tricia Klink, who is featured in this film with many other luminaries of spiritual thinking. While the film does not teach Science of Mind per se, it does teach about using mythology as a tool for deeper inner awareness and empowering oneself to re-direct their own life story.