Virtual Writing Studios
Come Write With Murphy On Fridays
Myths with Murph:
The Egyptian Amduat
8 WEEK ZOOM MEETING SERIES
Fridays: April 3, 10, 17, 24, and May 1, 8, 17, 22
9 am to 10:15 am EST
In Collected Works, Carl Gustav Jung determined the myth is one of the most important requisites of life. Erich Neumann’s writings from Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine explained, “Myth is always the unconscious representation of such crucial life situations, and […] so significant for us is that we can read the true experiences of mankind (womankind) in these confessions unobscured by consciousness.”
Otto Rank and Joseph Campbell called myths the collective dream of a whole people. If so, the myth itself expresses all the parts of society’s framework from the critic, to the politician, to the lover, to the teacher, to the change agent, to the challenged, to the parent, to the sibling, to the heroine, the hero.
Writers and poets have historically played with myths symbolically expressing conflict, emotions, and the establishment of setting. “Poetry, which in its highest form is animated by the same primordial images as myth, may disclose motifs and formulations which recapitulate mythical ones, and our mythological interpretation is gratifyingly confirmed when a poem strikes the same primordial note as resounds in the myth” (Neumann).
For eight Fridays, join Murphy utilizing Suzanne Kingsbury’s Gateless method, along with Terri Trespicio’s New Rules Guidelines and Principles. Step into the stillpoint within your body, your own wellspring. View images of the Amduat from the tomb of Pharoah Tuthmosis III, listening to the readings of short segments of Theodor Abt and Erik Hornung’s Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat—a Quest for Immortality, write from a prompt for 20 minutes. Three to four selected writers will read, while listeners share, affirm what they love, what works and the craft inside the piece via chat and personal feedback.
$35.00 per session (pay in advance, discounted price $250) After payment a Zoom link will be sent to your email.
You are invited to…
Write with IML senior editor, Dr. I. Murphy Lewis.
The New Rules live virtual writing studio is accepting new and established writers.
For new and emerging writers of any genre. This is a somatic writing experience that transcends the inner critic and connects you to your richest stories in a hive of literary support. 5 minutes of somatic prompt to move you into the theta brain state where the creative lives. 20 minutes of writing in silent community. 30-35 minutes of delicious feedback, where you learn your innate genius and singular talent on the page. This is the writing community you have been looking for. Write with mentors trained to show you the power and strength of your singular story.
Fridays for the next 4 months with Dr. I. Murphy Lewis, Memoirist and Small Press Publisher.
Mondays 6pm EST with Memoirist Serena Eastman.
Tuesdays 9am EST with Novelist Daisy Florin.
Wednesdays at 12pm EST with Fiction Writer Christina Dexter.
The First Monday of every month 11am EST with Terri Trespicio, founder of the New Rules Writing Studio.
Through this method, participants have signed with the top agents in New York, been profiled in the nation's biggest media outlets and have found their creative home in a community of support and inspiration. We can’t wait to write with you! The open page is waiting…and flew wide open for one writer, Susmitha:
“In New Rules Studio, led by Murphy, who was a guest teacher in September, I wrote this from the prompt, ‘how is a creature interacting with you?’ Murs now back in the program as a teacher for nine more months. Every Friday I’ll be writing with her and I’m so curious to see what other magical, ethereal writing her prompts spin from within my soul! :)” Follow our New Rules writer, Susmitha on her substack
$197 per month for unlimited classes.