What is Mythopoetic Entrepreneurship?
A prayer. A revision. An attempt at something else.
It’s an attempt to sow into futures we will never experience in this lifetime.
It’s the witnessing of all the little things that create culture. All the fine, almost imperceptible, subtle acts of devotion and artmaking and craft that build our world.
In entrepreneurship spaces, people often talk about “playing a bigger game”. But sometimes the “bigger game” is about plugging your soul into the Earth and becoming and conduit, a vessel for new stories to be born through you.
Why Mythopoetic Entrepreneurship? Here’s the Truth
Our world doesn’t need more egocentric visionaries who believe that their vision alone will be responsible for saving the whole world.
We need cultures of weavers, technologists, thresholdkeepers, and worldbuilders who are curiously and devotedly building visions that nurture our shared futures and care for the Soul of the Earth.
Our world doesn’t need more soulless incubators, marketing campaigns, and accelerators that just teach you how to get rich in quickly fading, outdated systems.
We need a new mythopoeisis of entrepreneurship that invokes true cultural regeneration and calls us into new depths, new awarenesses, and new devotion.
We need caves, cultures, covens, and spaces that call us to remember our own essence and to nurture our call to listen, study, and create from the depths of our inherent interrelatedness.
What is mythopoetic entrepreneurship?
Let’s break it down.
Mythos → Stories, Construct, Myth
Poeisis → Creation or making something new.
Entrepreneur → To undertake or do something.
Mythopoetic Entrepreneurship happens when we undertake the endeavor to create new stories, myths, and contructs on the Earth.
It is not just about making money, or “doing business”. It’s not about slinging around terms like “mythopoeisis”, “ecology”, “somatics”, and “regenerative”.
Mythopoetic Entrepreneurship is an assignment to craft something that doesn’t exist and that is bigger than you–something big enough to spark new potentials and new stories in your ecosystem.
We must invent never-before-seen maps and methods to navigate our never-before-seen circumstances and courageously accept a destination we can only partially understand.
Bill Plotkin, Journey of Soul Initiation
A FIELD GUIDE FOR VISIONARIES, EVOLUTIONARIES AND REVOLUTIONARIES
We must now collectively weave a cocoon for the metamorphosis of our own species.
Bill Plotkin, Journey of Soul Initiation:
A FIELD GUIDE FOR VISIONARIES, EVOLUTIONARIES AND REVOLUTIONARIES
