A myth originates from a poetical insight on somebody’s part. He has experienced potentials that all of them might have experienced had they been poets. Now, a ritual is the enactment of a myth; by participating in the rite, you participate in the myth. Myths don’t count if they’re just hitting your rational faculties-they have to hit the heart. You have to absorb them and adjust to them and make them your life. And insofar as the myth is a revelation of dimensions of your own spiritual potential, you are activating those dimensions in yourself and experiencing them. When you find a poem or a picture that really appeals to you, and awakens you, there is someone who went ahead of you and gives you that experience ; and it may be life-shaping. A myth is a life-shaping image. Joseph Campbell
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:45:35 +0000
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