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Mythic Cartography™
Mapping the territory of a life with the oldest instruments available — the stories that have described it for a very long time.
3 chapters · 20,074 words · Narrated · Still being written
Descent, exile, the threshold, the return, the wasteland, the gift that cannot be brought back whole. These are not decorations on psychological facts; for most of human history they were the primary language for describing the shape of a life, and they are still better at some of it than clinical vocabulary is.
This volume is a cartography: the major mythic territories, how to recognise which one you are standing in, and what each has traditionally required of the person passing through it.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.