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The following sections present some major applications. Others are equally possible. Among them are Depth Systems built with experimental symbolism, e.g., of science as a system of metaphors; performance art integrated with interactive mythic environments; ability to consult one's Personal Myth via a portable palm-top MYTHSEEKER product.


SPIRITUAL QUEST
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
DRUG REHABILITATION
HOSPICE CARE
EDUCATION


There is a worldwide audience receptive to seeking life's purpose by creating Personal Myth, who are also willing to use virtual reality software as a means to assist the myth-seeking process. The MYTHSEEKER approach pertains to all cultures and countries, i.e., to persons seeking mythic life aspirations based on experience, insight, and intuited possibilities for their personal preferred futures. Primal Virtual Space is an important unifying metaphor and experience that places Depth Systems on an equal footing, allowing the participant truly to visit them and in the process to create a Personal Depth System, also contributing if desired to the World Depth System.
There are persons involved in psychotherapy or medical diagnosis who can build Personal Myth as an adjunctive process guided by medical, academic, or social interaction professionals. One focus for this central application is helping emotionally disturbed children or young adults. There is a younger generation of explorers seeking vistas and life purpose, receptive to exploring mythic venues. There is an older generation of explorers seeking integration of their extensive life experience, including the baby boomers searching for new roots and dimensions. There is also the general public potentially receptive to seeking mythic anchors within our complex, sometimes overwhelming and frightening, and definitely fragmented world culture.


SPIRITUAL QUEST

The user participates with Depth Systems as vehicles for meditation and inner quest, and explores Depth Systems and their enactments. Through this a Personal Depth System is created. This can be accomplished at home, office, or while visiting meaningful, numinous settings in nature or sacred locations.

PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS

A client's interaction with MYTHSEEKER software can suggest promising avenues of therapy and help to focus lifeshapes and aspirations. Psychodrama is an important possible avenue for projection of mythic symbolism within enactments. Participation with the software can emulate how the client "structures" his or her world, e.g., via projective involvement with mythic beings and other elements of Depth Systems. In effect the software can help to create mythic narrative useful in interpreting the person's experience. During assessment the client chooses preferred modes of time experience, visual textures, and other existential variables, all of which can shape experience within the virtual environment. These uses of the software are likely of interest to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers in private practice or with institutions.
The therapist can guide the client in finding mythic content in nondirective or directive fashion. Furthermore, the therapist can suggest that the client experience specific Depth System as contributory to a Personal Depth System. The therapist can appear as a virtual therapist in Primal Virtual Space or any Depth System. Every Depth System includes a special enactment in which a client participates with the therapist for guidance or assistance. More generally the therapist is included as a mythic agent within every Depth System so that the client can participate with or role-play as the therapist. There is a mythic human agent in every Depth System who expresses highest attainment for the Depth System.
A client can develop a Personal Depth System giving content, symbolism, and meaning. The client can also contribute personally meaningful elements to World Depth System. He or she can be referred to external sources for living, searching experience, then return to continue building the Personal Depth System.

DRUG REHABILITATION

MYTHSEEKER software may be used as an adjunct to changing the pattern of substance abuse by building Person Myth facilitating an approach to reality, all within a psychotherapy setting. This is instrumented for the patient by building a Personal Depth System, creating new or modified patterns of meaning based on life experience combined with symbolism and aspirations. The Personal Depth System can incorporate mythic participation with situations that led to addiction, integrating these with nurturing elements of an evolving Personal Myth. This is likely of use to mental health centers, half-way houses, prisons, or hospitals.


HOSPICE CARE

MYTHSEEKER may encourage and strengthen a terminally ill person. Processes of mythic participation can help to deepen authentic and nurturing experience for the terminally ill patient, fostering an approach to death with dignity. This ability can help to bring about continuing mythic involvement within the transition surrounding death and mortality. This fosters an approach to death with dignity and a continuing, numinous, mythic life. MYTHSEEKER assists transition experiences may help the person to attain mythic meaning. A sense of the presence of living Personal Myth can be nurturing and encouraging in many ways. The person can thereby be helped through meditations that he or she might prefer. The form of virtual reality used should not be obtrusive or uncomfortable in any way. Beautiful and transporting virtual environments would be wondrous and healing.


EDUCATION

MYTHSEEKER software is a vehicle to explore the variety of myth at many levels. Students of comparative religion are enabled to experience Depth Systems both individually and according to themes of similarity and difference. There is strong possibility for applications to promote cross-cultural communication—persons in different cultures may explore one another's cultural roots reflecting deep levels of mythic symbolism and meaning for life enhancement. Appropriate settings are universities, high schools, grammar schools, and community outreach centers.
MYTHSEEKER allows new dimensions in education. Respect and tolerance for the range of cultures and approaches to spirituality can be awakened which might help to heal some of the fragmentation of our time so much of which is related to rigid patterns leading to exclusion of others. The ability to compare similarities and differences in mythic symbols and metaphors can lead to new ways of experiencing and understanding. The beauty, grandeur, and wonder of myth-seeking can become available to many persons, in many cultures, who might not otherwise have an ability to experience them.



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