About Rebirth “We all started in the underworld,” observed poet Robert Bly (1), and, I sense that a part of us forever remains in the underworld. Even when the ordinary world calls to us, another part is compelled to answer, to emerge from the underworld, to belong to the ordinary world of gathering and achieving. Our lives are an acting out of ancient myths. In our personal myth, we are in the underworld during periods of withdrawal and introspection, or when, as Yeats wrote