tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74591850356113302732008-03-17T11:22:01.990-07:00John Meridethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113543531982188420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459185035611330273.post-5958587549710273272007-05-13T20:11:00.000-07:002007-05-15T08:28:41.688-07:00<strong><p><em>Interpreting Oriental Myth<br /> </strong></em>The primary point of oriental wisdom is that we are not in exile - god is within you.<br /> *Orient vs Occident<br /> *High Culture developed in Mesopotamia Aprox. 8000 b.c.<br /> *3500 b.c. writing. mathematics and controlled astronomical observation ( able to predict the path of the major orbiting bodies)<br /> *Idea of an impersonal power controlling the universe took shape.<br /> *Mythology of a people = grandiose poetic image referring to principles that are mysterious and ineffable (4 primary principles).<br /> *1open the mind of everyone in the society to the mysterious dimension that cannot be analyzed - only experienced.<br /> *2</p><br />John Meridethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113543531982188420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459185035611330273.post-35818272898609069662007-05-02T21:04:00.000-07:002007-05-15T08:28:38.417-07:00<ul><br /><li>Due to growing scientific skepticism in the West (literalism), myths and their ability to move us have fallen into disvavor and are now sen as falsehoods.<br /><ul><br /><li>Yet dreams, according to Freud, Jung and Adler, are a form of personal mythologization.</li><br /></ul></li><br /><li><div style="display: inline;color:#ff0000;">Can we recover a more mystical realization of the miracle of life?</div ></li><br /><li>Mythologies are not invented, they are found<br /><ul><br /><li><div style="display: inline;color:#ff0000;">What does this mean?</div > (collective unconscious or essential shared experience)</li><br /></ul></li><br /><li>Sublime - The individual (the ego sense) diminishes "out of sight" in the face of prodigiious space or energy - Space is sublime - Apollo.</li><br /><li>The sublime shows us that you are a manifestation of the eternal. The sublime wakes us up to this truth. Indra's humbling is an example of myth used to relay this truth.</li><br /></ul><br /><br /><br />John Meridethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11113543531982188420noreply@blogger.com