Myth must be kept alive.
The people who can keep it alive are artists...
The function of the artist is the mythologization
of the environment and the world.
—JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Manny Otto provides curriculum development, training, and coaching in principles many highly accomplished artists and visionaries draw upon as they embrace their vital roles as prime functionaries of an emerging global mythos—i.e. the overarching worldview or “story” a culture accepts about itself and its place in the universe.

Manny Otto :: Email ~ Twitter

Current

• WRITING!!! A 2011 release of Manny Otto's first book titled Awakening The Artist is scheduled through Michael Wiese Productions (MWP), an industry leading film arts publisher with a line of over 140 books on all aspects of filmmaking... more...
• ...also at Michael Wiese Productions, serving as an Web Producer and Associate Publisher in the following capacities:
  • Developing, organizing, launching, and marketing MW Film School, focusing on the education of creators of "conscious media" — media that seeks to enlighten, entertain, and inspire.
  • Launching the Divine Arts book line with focus on acquisitions, marketing, and sales.
  • Web initiative direction and support for all book lines and film productions.
• Associate Producer and Consultant on The Welcome Man: Apollo's Fire.

Past

• 2009: Featured in the Leap! movie along with Peter Russell, Dan Millman, Dr. Fred Alan Wolfe, Will Arntz, and others in an exploration of the idea that reality, as generally understood, is an illusion. Watch Trailer...
• 2008-2009: Marketing for Sounds True, an independent multimedia publishing company that embraces the world’s major spiritual traditions, as well as the arts and humanities, embodied by the leading authors, teachers, and visionary artists of our time.
  Special Project: Mysteryof2012.com
• 2008: Featured Intent Voice on Intent.com—Manny blogged on the role of artists in restoring a sense of sacred service to the arts. Intent.com also features Deepak Chopra, Genpo Roshi, Michael Lerner, Jonathan Goldman, Steven Waldman, and many others.
• 2007: Served on the national host committee for the U.S. Tour of the Medium of Tibet's Chief State Oracle, Ven. Thupten Ngodrup.
• 2006-2008: Produced for Gaiam, Inc., engaged in refining the company’s Spiritual Cinema Circle and Earth Cinema Circle web presences to perpetuate the appeal of their film offerings.
• 2003-2005: Co-founded and provided leadership for Threshold Passages, a rites of passages and mentoring program in Colorado that practically applies the theories of Joseph Campbell, Robert Bly and many others regarding the need for effective rites of passage for the young men in our society.
• 1999-2006: Key member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation leadership team developing on-line and off-line community, including co-producing the Joseph Campbell Centenary conference at Esalen Institute in 2004, and planning future Internet initiatives, including the Campbell Digital Archives and Works projects.

Manny Otto :: manny (dot) otto (at) gmail ~ twitter