Lyfing
12-31-2008, 12:58 AM
The Hero with a Thousand Faces can be downloaded here (http://theherowithathousandfaces.weebly.com/)..
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite
to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in
counteraction to those constant human fantasies that tend to tie
it back. In fact, it may well be that the very high incidence of
neuroticism among ourselves follows from the decline among
us of such effective spiritual aid. We remain fixated to the unexorcised
images of our infancy, and hence disinclined to the
necessary passages of our adulthood.
Later,
-Lyfing
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite
to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in
counteraction to those constant human fantasies that tend to tie
it back. In fact, it may well be that the very high incidence of
neuroticism among ourselves follows from the decline among
us of such effective spiritual aid. We remain fixated to the unexorcised
images of our infancy, and hence disinclined to the
necessary passages of our adulthood.
Later,
-Lyfing