Living the Personal Myth: Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One's Own Life

by The Silver Elves

Living the Personal Myth was written by Zardoa Silverstar of the Silver Elves. It is a unique narrative about a psychological study of the magic of living one's personal myth, in effect, making one's dream and vision of one's self come true by living it. It is a personal guide to becoming one's true s'elf as one inwardly knows one's s'elf to be. What makes this book particularly interesting is that the author considers himself to be an elf, yet he has an astute scientific mind that he uses to psychologically examine his identification with the otherkin world. He explores his personal myth and life as an elf and demonstrates how basing one's myth on real events in one's life empowers one's myth and one's magic. Whatever or whoever you are, this book is a potent guide to realizing one's genuine, and potentially powerful, magical and fantastic, nature. The author uses dream work techniques, oracle readings, and active imagination to take us through a depth psychology exploration of his own experience in the individuation process of becoming a whole person whose unconscious and conscious elements are integrated and who is a unique individual. Much of the material in this book is based on a depth process study he conducted at Sonoma State University in the Depth Psychology Department in 2005. This work suggests "Personal Myth" to be an understanding of the self that incorporates the symbolic, imaginal and fantasy elements of the unconscious and accepts them as real within their own realms of being. It is the author's belief that the Personal Myth is the unconscious' understanding of the individual spirit's Cosmic aspirations and potentialities. In that way, Personal Myth is seen as the personality of the unconscious and of the individual's spirit.

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy, Spirituality, Witchcraft, Nonfiction, Mythology

228 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2014

About the author

The Silver Elves are a family of elves who have since 1975 been living and sharing the Elven Way or Elven spiritual path. We are the authors of 80+ books on elven magic, elven lore and enchantment, and the Elven Way including: The Book of Elven Runes: A Passage Into Faerie; The Magical Elven Love Letters, vol. I, 2, & 3; An Elfin Book of Spirits: Evoking the Beneficent Powers of Faerie; Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar; Eldafaryn: True Tales of Magic from the Lives of the Silver Elves; Arvyndase (Silverspeech): A Short Course in the Magical Language of the Silver Elves; The Elven Book of Dreams: A Magical Oracle of Faerie; The Book of Elven Magick: The Philosophy and Enchantments of the Seelie Elves, Vol. 1 & 2; What An Elf Would Do: A Magical Guide to the Manners and Etiquette of the Faerie Folk; The Elven Tree of Life Eternal: A Magical Quest for One’s True S’Elf; Magic Talks: On Being a Correspondence Between the Silver Elves and the Elf Queen’s Daughters — along with three other books in this series: Sorcerers’ Dialogues, Discourses on High Sorcery, and Ruminations on Necromancy; The Elven Way: The Magical Path of the Shining Ones; The Book of Elf Names: 5,600 Elven Names to Use for Magic, Game Playing, Inspiration, Naming One’s Self and One’s Child, and as Words in the Elven Language of the Silver Elves; Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar; An Elven Book of Ryhmes: Book Two of the Magical Poems of Zardoa Silverstar; The Voice of Faerie: Making Any Tarot Deck Into an Elven Oracle; Liber Aelph: Words of Guidance from the Silver Elves to our Magical Children; The Shining Ones: The Elfin Spirits That Guide You According to Your Birth Date and the Evolutionary Lessons They Offer; Living the Personal Myth: Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One’s Own Personal Life; Elf Magic Mail, Book 1 & 2; The Elves of Lyndarys: A Magical Tale of Modern Faerie Folk; The Elf Folk’s Book of Cookery: Recipes For a Delighted Tongue, a Healthy Body and a Magical Life; Faerie Unfolding: The Cosmic Expression of the Divine Magic; The Elements of Elven Magic: A New View of Calling the Elementals Based Upon the Periodic Table of Elements; The Keys to Elfin Enchantment: Mastery of the Faerie Light Through the Portals of Manifestation; Elf Quotes: A Collection of Over 1000 Ancient Elven Sayings and Wise Elfin Koans by The Silver Elves About Magic and The Elven Way; The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government; Elven Geomancy: An Ancient Oracle of the Elfin Peoples for Divination and Spell Casting; Creating Miracles In The Modern World: The Way Of the Elfin Thaumaturge; The Magical Realms of Elfin: Answers to Questions About Being an Elf and Following the Elven Path; Elven Psychology: Understanding the Elfin Psyche and the Evolutionary and Esoteric Purpose of Mental Disorders, The Complete Dictionary Of Arvyndase: The Elven Language of The Silver Elves (with over 30,000 words in our full magical elven language); Sticks and Stones, Feathers, Charms and Bones: An Original Oracle of the Elfin Peoples of the Ancient Future; Elven Hedgewitchery and Found Magic: Using Art-Making for Evoking Elfin Magic and Living the Elven Way; and An Elfin Book of Trees for the Elven Druid: The Ogham of the Elves Using Elvish Wizard Script.

Reviews

[Lolly · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who is skeptical of woo, I lived this book. It approaches concepts of spirits, energies, other realms, magic so from a very actual foundation of personal experience and s'elf, and does not call upon the reader to take unsubstantiated leaps of faith, so much as becoming aware of one's own being (conscious & subconscious) and methods of connection to our shared reality.

[The Elves · Rating 5 out of 5]

When asked what this book is about, we often say, "How to be your true magical self in the modern world." Elven Blessings upon your path!

[JHM · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not a book for everybody, but it came to me at just the right time to offer some fresh perspective on the creative, spiritual, and philosophical challenge of living a life of personal meaning that combines the mythic with consensual reality.

One of the elements which sets it apart is that much of it was initially written for a Masters of Psychology thesis, and it includes the record of the author's Depth Method Inquiry into his experiences connecting with the Otherworld and using divination to check his perceptions.

Much of the material he covered was familiar to me, but his insights and personal response were new and paradigm-shifting.

[Christine O’Neal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastically written and I skimmed the parts that didnt resonate but there’s a lot of powerful trauma healing in here whether or not people see it that way this is absolutely magic - I’ve found using intentional magical thinking and employing the subconscious to destroy the detrimental impacts capitalism and patriarchy had on the psyche to replace the paltry and unsuitable foundation of Catholicism.