First, identify which of the great, overarching mythic systems inform your own e

First, identify which of the great, overarching mythic systems inform your own experience. The activity of the Four Functions will be unique to your background and individual sense of meaning and/or the sacred. For students from abroad, the patriotic myth of their own society, and the deeper cultural myths, will predominate. For those of us raised within a tight-knit Christian community, the myth of science will have a minimal role. For those of us raised in a strictly secular context, Disney or Star Wars may be surprisingly important.
Second, you are invited to identify one or more of your own individual mythic narratives. Some of us may have unique callings––for example, a young man who, coming from a totally secular background, at 19 years of age encounters a Tibetan Rinpoche and up and enters a Buddhist monastery has departed from the overarching mythic system of his society. In adopting a Buddhist mythic system, with its four functions, he has heeded a unique calling, one not determined by his culture or social circumstances. He has, as Campbell described it, followed his bliss.
While it is useful to determine the over-arching, great impersonal mythic systems we are embedded in, it gets really interesting when we start to discover the unique expression of archetypal, mythic forces that we, as individuals, embody in our own lives!
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Discipline: The Power of Myths and Symbols