Why Myths & Tales Resonate · We Reflect on Our Essence
⁘ “Who doesn't love a good tale, an epic legend, that deep yonder myth. It resonates with of us on a deep level — as if carrying mystic essence from beyond. A field of reflection — mirror for the essence in ourselves. How do we work with it?”
We return to the function, purpose, and meaning of myths and symbols.
They resonate with many of us on a deep level,
as if carrying some mystic essence from beyond.
Even fairy tales and works of fantasy,
they all encode archetypes of awareness, identity, and life,
and therefore they resonate.
A field of reflection more distant from the immediacy of our current life and its problems.
We route the gist of ourselves into the mirror of the myth,
workshop it there, and then reflect it inward back again.
Or that's how it should work.
It becomes problematic when the myth becomes an actuality unto itself
and begins to subjugate the living world in front of you.
Really a lot of spiritual, religious people, believers, mystics
are somewhere on the spectrum of psychosis.
No need to believe in any of it as descriptions of concrete reality.
The only relevant belief is that they carry the essence of life for your reflections.