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"What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. That's it. And your own meaning is that you're there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner values, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about"
The god of the Deist Founding Fathers meets Kant Categorical Imperative @mechanicalmonk1 since you were asking about god as a metaphor https://t.co/OnvOJ7HBeu
What makes someone a hero is them venturing off into the unknown, into a context which society hasnât prepared them for. But the hero doesnât just learn to adapt, they return to share their knowledge of a new way of being https://t.co/cNU6j0O86c
âThe hero's sphere of action is not the transcendent but here, now, in the field of time, of good and evil-of the pairs of opposites. Whenever one moves out of the transcendent, one comes into a field of opposites.â A hero is concerned with the phenomenal world, not the neumenal
âYou can tell whatâs informing a society by what the tallest building is. In a medieval town, the cathedral is the tallest thing in the place. In an eighteenth-century town, it is the political palace. In a modern city, the tallest places are the office buildingsâ
âThe supernatural as something over and above the natural is a killing idea. [It turns the] world into something like a wasteland, a land where people never do a thing they truly want to because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their clergyâ
The status of female gods reflects the status of women in the society. In particular, the Bibleâs âlackâ of a female goddess lead to a tainted western view of women https://t.co/hSKmJcUG3N
They did NOT teach this in catholic school 𤯠âThe virgin birth comes into Christianity by way of the Greek tradition. When you read the four gospels, for example, the only one in which the virgin birth appears is the Gospel According to Luke, and Luke was a Greek.â
Older religions were more intimately connected to the cycle of life âIf we say grace before meals, we thank [the Christian God] for our food. But in earlier mythologies... they would thank the animal they were about to consume for having given of itself a willing sacrifice.â
The symbol of the Madonna was intentionally lifted from Egyptian myths (!!!) âIn Egyptian iconography, Isis represents the throne. The Pharaoh sits on the throne, which is Isis, as a child on a motherâs lap.â https://t.co/tk5hKC62sX
In the middle ages, women were a civilizing force "within this brutality, there was a civilizating force, which the women really represented because they were the ones who established the rules for this game. And the men had to play it according to the requirements of the women"
The myth of the Holy Grail marked the beginning of Europe https://t.co/uc8D899pXz
The destruction of the pagan temples by the Church was one of the biggest losses of culture in European history https://t.co/MV27wNNbkB
âJung has a saying: âReligion is a defense against the experience of God.â The mystery has been reduced to a set of concepts and ideas⌠[which] can short-circuit the transcendent⌠An intense experience of mystery is what one has to regard as the ultimate religious experience.â
The only way to worship a god is to channel them in your actions https://t.co/jQjOrgl41b
âA key difference between mythology and our Judeo-Christian religion is that the imagery of mythology is rendered with humor. You realize that the image is symbolic of something. Youâre at a distance from it. But in our religion, everything is prosaic, and very, very serious."
bonus thread also on Campbell: https://t.co/MyzjCRu4YO