Why Storytellers Have Been Using Labyrinths For Thousands Of Years - John Bucher
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John Bucher is a mythologist, storyteller, and writer based out of Hollywood, California. He serves as Executive Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation and is an author, podcaster, and speaker. He has worked with government and cultural leaders around the world as well as organizations such as HBO, DC Comics, The History Channel, A24 Films, Atlas Obscura, and The John Maxwell Leadership Foundation. He has served as a producer, consultant, and writer for numerous film, television, and Virtual Reality projects. He is the author of six books including the best-selling Storytelling for Virtual Reality, named by BookAuthority as one of the best storytelling books of all time. John has worked with New York Times Best Selling authors, CZcams influencers with followings of more than 2 million, Eisner winners, Emmy winners, Academy Award nominees, and cast members from Saturday Night Live. He holds a PhD in Mythology & Depth Psychology and has spoken on 6 continents about using the power of story and myth to reframe how individuals, organizations, cultures, and nations believe and behave.
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Guillermo del Toro once said, "A maze is a place where you get lost. A labyrinth is a place where you find yourself."
John tying mythology to Jungian psychology to religion and not stumbling over a single word, not breaking a sweat and making me hang off of every word...GOALS.
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This conversation is gold - I'm referring to the entire playlist. I'm a writer too, and I've never agreed with someone as ardently as I do with John. After years and years of love for myths, fairy tales and writing, I've come to the same general conclusions. Beautifully told by a man of integrity. Thank you for this gift of wisdom!
When you find the centre, the exit is lost. When you find the exit, the centre is lost. Either way, loss is around the next corner, the only question is, is it a sacrifice worth making?
This is so powerful and insightful. Mythology is often hard to understand, but John did such an incredible job here! Thanks John!
In simple words it's just about facing dealing with internal conflict 😅
One really cool detail in Inception is that Leonardo's character test his new dream architect by having her draw a maze. He has her start over again and this time she draws a labyrinth which Leonardo approves of. As the point of an "inception" is to go in to the ever shifting landscape of someone's mind with intent of finding the center and then leaving. I don't know if that was intended or not but I think it's very cool.
This explains SO much. It makes The Shining maze make a lot more sense, for example. And that movie with gillenhall and the spider at the end.
This is an unforgettable conversation. It has such a force, such power. Spoken with deep conviction from within. Thank you.
I could listen to this guy talk for hours. I was hanging on every word he spoke and each one was as interesting as the previous. What a wordsmith and storyteller. Brilliant.
Always thought a Maze has an entrance and an exit, but a Labyrinth only has one way out, the way you came in. Also the Minotaur was done dirty, that guy was trapped.
You're not wrong.
There is always a way forward & through, even if the journey is twisted or screwed. - Labyrinth's of You
In my own novels, the protagonists encounter a labyrinth as one of their first trials and later encounter large spiders as well. There is definitely something in the collective unconscious around these myths and symbols that compels us.
What a great metaphor! Thank you John Bucher for sharing your knowledge!
It reminds me of my current state of mind in regard to the story thread of my current series of novels. Some works are found art poured down from heaven and others have to be wrestled away from heaven.
What a wonderful topic to cover. Thank you!
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Wow, John is so well spoken and explained this on another level. Thanks!
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If a spider can put all those pirated stories on the web without getting sued... the gods need a better copyright lawyer.
Great, insightful, and well researched tutorial.
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I’d go back to church if this man was a pastor.
I HIGHLY recommend the novel “House of Leaves” after watching this. It’s a master class in all the story elements discussed here.
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My understanding is that there is only one path in and out of it, and that path takes you through every part of it. So Theseus shouldn't have needed string to find his way out. This is why it's good for meditation, because you don't really have to think about what path to take--there is only one.
It's a maze that has multiple paths that can end in dead ends and blind alleys, even though there is only one entrance and one exit. It's a maze that you can actually get lost in, until you find the right path. And there may be parts of the maze you never encounter while finding your way through it.
I didn’t lied when I called this man “ The Man Who Came From An Artistic Heaven “
As a kid I was obsessed with drawing mazes with themes. Man I haven’t seen a maze in decades lol
For some reason, this reminds me of my childhood. Quite a few of my favorite movies at that time seem to involve people going to the center of things. Voyage to the Center of the Earth. Fantastic Voyage. Movies about secret, prehistoric lands hidden in Middle Earth. There’s something very telling and relatable about the analogy of the labyrinth.
Insightful
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The labyrinth is what we spiritually know to be true.
A neverending story in the one mind.
The maze is where the ego traps itself.
Details ❤
The depth John goes into a not-so-common subject matter
Fascinating
I really enjoyed this.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent . The myth of Theseus is raw as hell
Damn so in the in the Shining when jacks looking at the maze it’s really more of labyrinth! Holy firjoles
If you are of the royal family of Amber you can just teleport out when you get to the center.
Nice.
Good stuff.
Thanks Daniel!
Almost everything he said is in the Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.
John is the Executive Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation.
@@filmcourage I saw comment reactions like they have never heard this kind of information before. Most great screenwriters have read Campbell's book several times. George Lucas said it was the book that helped him finish writing Star Wars.
thank you :)
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Perhaps laboring and the minautour were tartarian?
Life is more a maze than a labyrinth, its fun to get lost 😅😅
The labyrinth is a map of the soul
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Now everybody like crazy to write Labyrinth screenplays 😂
cool
So putting content on the Web is from ancient myths?
the thumbnail says Labyrinths aren't mazes, the opening line is " a labyrinth is a type of maze. which is it?
Mazes have one way in, one way out.
That's a linguistic problem, not an inconsistency. Sometimes words have many meanings and it's the context that provides the meaning. In everyday context a maze could be the umbrella term for any space where you get lost in, but in a literary context could mean a distinct category from labyrinths. Context determines the meaning of a word.
In the video the goal is the difference. The goal of a maze is to find your way out, but the goal of a labyrinth is to find what's at the center and then find your way out.
I thought that too, when he clarified the distinction later on, but appreciated his offering before pondering criticism
labyriths sounds
way cooler than mazes anyways.
maze sounds like kid ver.
aaaaalmost a haiku
too much Labyrinths , i had to reWATCH the video many time and still no clue what he is talking about
Mmm look up the dictionary definition you might be surprised 😂
Not all rocks are gems but all gems are rocks.
Not all mazes are labyrinths but all labyrinths are mazes.
A labrynth need not have a center nor an exit. A maze need not have a center nor an exist. Symmetry need not be absolute. The purpose is to confuse its participant...almost like some sort of unecessary device of motivation, but i can appreciate the use of abstraction.
Id try to define a mcguffin but the dictionary is too much of a labrynth for me to ever find out. It must be too convoluted with words to portray the magnified view of a simple concept with confounded rhetrocisim. ❤
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Not exactly. Context determines the meaning of a word. Having two words that always mean the same thing is redundant. So it's actually in our best interest to use the two words to describe different ideas. Yeah, in a general context the words can mean the same thing but in literature, it's way better to differentiate the two terms in this way. Maze, as something which one tries to escape and Labyrinth, something which one aims to find a goal (boon) in the center and then try to exit.
@@jeremiahnoar7504 definitions have meaning. Shared understanding is how communication is possible. This guy is just blathering. I should know. I studied that art of blathering for many years.
The above is an example of using a word you may be unfamiliar with. To find what a word means
I'd suggest either a dictionary or an etymological review.
If it was about interpretation then we would each have our own language. Objective reason is necessary for sharing ideas or it's meaning wiil be lost. Let's see if you can understand we my next line.
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To you it may not have meaning but to me it does. Best of luck and I wish you success in your endeavors.
@@derpderp1101 Dictionaries can be useful but only if they're used sparingly. They're good for understanding words you haven't heard before but that's about it. That's because (as Saussure points out) there is no 1-1 correspondence with words and their definitions. And there's no objectivity reasoning with them because words depend more on cultural context than they do on their actual definition.
In linguistics we give words to idea's based on function. Anytime you can make a functional distinction between two idea, you need two different words. As is the case for maze/labyrinth. In other words, it's just more useful to draw a distinction between those to words.
if you don't undersrand the self refuting nature of relativism then dialogue is meaningless as is your reason and anything you say after. I wish you the best of luck with that. Assuming you read this correctly and don't think I just kept typing "kitty" over and over again...
If you tell me a fire is cold when compared to the sun I may believe you, but if you tell me you believe a fire to be cold as you burn to death I may not believe you.
Jesus helps you escape the Labyrinth, when you get that you will "get" all of mythology instead of resorting to this nut who claims it is that which is unownable or "higher". Jesus encapsulates it for us. Because the meaning of life is to love, and to love is to sacrifice, this is the meaning of life.