People completely miss why mythic thinking is so powerful.
They jabber their mouths, emitting sounds about why a myth tells a timeless story. Why does a myth mean something psychosocially, or why this or that myth may have a seed truth in it, such as how some demigod was once actually a tribal chieftain.
They completely miss the entire point of myth.
Myth is not so powerful due to any of those reasons.
As brilliant as C.J. Jung is, myths are not so powerful because they are archetypical;
at least that is just a tiny bit of it, as yes, myths are commonly dreamed dreams.
Myths are powerful for one simple reason; myths are realer than real’ for one simple reason.
They remind us of the time when the merest whim of thought became an instant reality.
They remind us of what it is to be a Monad, one of the many ‘generators of reality’.
They remind us that WE ARE ALSO THAT.
That is the reason myths are so powerful.
They help us to remember.
They unbind our minds from bad stories.
Kevin Cann
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3/26/2025