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Hillman reminds us that "our ideas about the psyche affect the psyche," and that it matters what language we use to talk about things that matter, the language can empower or destroy, Midgley reminds us that the myths and metaphors we use to think about something can help us or harm us, can lead us to answers or lead us to ruin Hofstadter claims that analogy is the core of thought, and thus that the analogies we use to think about things, consciously or unconsciously, can entirely change what thoughts it is possible to think Asma, similarly, tells us that Mythopoetic Cognition is the engine of mind, and that the embodied myths that drive our thought literally change the shape of the world we inhabit, and what actions make sense within it Hillman, again, reminds us that myths are what constellate human energy into configurations that interpret the world for us and drive action within it WHEN WE APPROACH SUBJECTS FROM THE WRONG MYTHS, THE WRONG ANALOGIES, THE WRONG METAPHORS AND LENSES, WE'RE WALKING INTO QUICKSAND