Abstract
Personal myth is the individual aesthetic resolution of our experience of being present in the world in both a particulate and transcendent way. Beginning early, personal myth develops as the core of our individual psychological nature and the foundation of our personal view of reality. The evolution of transcendent encounter into a continuous present experience fixes the pattern of the duality of our existence and initiates the personal mythmaking process. Myth bridges the particulate and transcendent realms by combining selected sets of transcendent properties into idealized particulate images. The act retains the archetypal values appropriate to the parent transcendent encounters. These values supply the story the myth tells. Personal myth operates in the particulate realm to condition the way we transact the world's business. In the transcendent realm it enhances the symbolic value of events to make them available as media of self-instruction.
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