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In the pre-modern world people had a different view of history. They were less concerned with what actually happened and more concerned by the MEANING of an event. Today a myth is something people would easily dispense with as infantile nonsense. Unfortunately this is due to the arrogance of the modern world, which insists upon its own values alone, therefore blinds itself from other concepts and ideas from more deeply rooted societies. Myths are not mere falsehoods nor collective fantasies of the arbitrary sort but rather profound and enduring patterns of meaning that inform the human psyche. The main source of anxiety in our age is the loss of myth and ritual. Someone who has never heard music before, nor knows how to interpret musical score, cannot appreciate the beauty that comes from it. The cult of rationality makes it more difficult to reach the deeper regions of the psyche. The decline of mythical thinking throughout much of the industrialized world has resulted in in the unfortunate loss in a sense of transcendence and the value of human life. Behind every myth is the instinctual human drive to find some significance in our lives, lacking that we soon fall into nihilistic despair. Science proves that there NEVER was a MERMAID, a blue skinned Krishna, or a VIRGIN BIRTH in physical reality yet THOUGHT IS REAL and the DOMAIN OF THOUGHT inarguably exists holding TREMENDOUS power. If Christ were only ever a fiction, a divine idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea? Make holy wars less terrible? Or human betterment less real? The poetic word is an absolute mythic and symbolic word. As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion we loose reality itself. The moment we retract fiction from reality, reality itself looses its logical consistency. Does myth exclude reason or does it possess a reason of its own? Myths could not exist without some sort of narrative structure where as rationality could not exist without metaphor. Metaphor is the contribution to the right brains language capacity. It glues words together by creating analogy. They are the bridge between abstract concepts and images. Almost every word we speak IS A METAPHOR. For example, we describe electrical forces as such as waves and currents by comparing them to the behavior of water and air but this is not to be taken LITERALLY just as electricity is not to be confused air or water. Myths are esoteric. They rely on intuition and emotion. Myths therefore serve a sacred function in our society. They provide an unfolding narrative of meaning. The human brain itself is a NARRATIVE MACHINE. We do not just tell stories... WE ARE STORIES. A myth is a type of collective archetypal dream and therefore is literally built into the structure of reality itself. We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:08:47 +0000

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