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Re: What is a healthy mythology?
I've resonated with the archetypes in the book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, particularly the magician. I often use the more "childish" forms to explore myths and archetypes.
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Re: What is a healthy mythology?
@marcitko said:
Probably quite right that the hero's journey is not the only myth type. I would be interested to learn whether the other types of myths mentioned are also maybe universal and similar across times and cultures.
Creation myths and Flood myths occur in many cultures. About the others I am less sure.
Joseph Campbell wrote a series of four books, The Masks of God, in which he expounds the mythologies around the world and at various times. Unfortunately not available as pdf, but the Wikipedia article on Campbell contains some detail.
Jeroen
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It is amazing that, when I stop trying to make sense of the world, it makes so much more sense.
Lionduck
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
@Shoshin1 said:
Sounds bloody cold ...
Well it is, we almost had frost in October, that’s pretty unheard-of here. Clear skies and winds from the north tend to bring these very cold temperatures. But the weather here has been more unstable the last five years or so… in the past it was the Jet Stream bringing warm air and seawater from the Americas and without that Europe would be a lot colder, but there is talk that climate change may destabilise it.
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I hear ya @lobster ..
Working with technology which (so they tell you) has been designed to make life easier can be quite a frustrating experience.
Shoshin1
Re: Shame vs Guilt
@Lionduck said:
Guilt is embedded in the Western culture, primarily through the various Christians sects,
where one must always atone for one's sins.
It’s interesting, I always saw the struggle against the dominant Christian faith as my father and my mother’s struggle. They were of the generation who threw off that yoke from parents who wanted to instill it, for whom Osho’s book on Jesus and the gospel of Thomas came as a clarifying wave.
In my generation, most schools were anthroposophical or non-denominational, you no longer were fed the whole original sin story, or indeed even the idea that there was such a thing as sin. I never got taught biblical stories, I heard more things like St Joris fights the Dragon or the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm or sometimes a story about an Angel.
Currently the Netherlands is over 50% of ‘no religion’ or ‘spiritual but not religious’ denominations. There are about 10% of the Islamic faith, and about 1% Buddhists, and the rest are Christians of various denominations. There is still a Bible Belt which stretches across the country of more religious communities.
Jeroen
