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Reminded of Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell The role of mythos in the world - it is a gateway / interface to the unexplainable, what we use to access the non-empirical
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July
@july
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythos_(Aristotle)
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moreReese
@morereese
If you're into this, I think you'd really enjoy Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. He tells a pseudo-biographical story of his experience with a psychotic breakdown as it relates to reality outside of / before the mythos (i.e. consciously aware myth). It's a wild and resonant trip.
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Recycling a recent cast about the limitations of mythos — when humans start taking them as more than just symbolic https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0xf918ff6b
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"One of my favorite shows for a long time was Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations" - an early favorite of mine too! He gave me perspective on the most important aspect of story telling through film: finding a starting place for deeper understanding for all listening/watching... with crypto you enable organized action
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I N V E R S E
@theinverse
Anyway, should be coming out soon. Think you would dig. Been thinking of Mythmakinf a lot. The doors used today: well make the myths. Listening to Beach House Mythmaker. We need new Myths, for new modes of exchange and new destinations
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@theinverse
Kidnapped him. He is imprisoned for his gift.... (I'll save some for the element of mystery) The idea is essentially that mimesis, and the act of replicating the world in image preceded the word, preceded thought, preceded science. It is art therefore that is the progenitor of all thought.
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@theinverse
And the other people, nomads likely, think it an odd, useless preoccupation. A strange man from a far off land dreams of the boy and travels very far to find him. And convinces his parents to take the boy under his tutelage. The boy knows on this journey, too far from home, not knowing the way back, that this man has
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I N V E R S E
@theinverse
I'm writing a short story (picture Kahlil Gibran meets Ram Daas Be Here Now) and hope to serialize a la Dickens. One page per week. The story of the first act of Mimesis: The Myth of Art. About the first artist, a child, who draws in the sand, images of his beloved tree, a lone tree in the desert...
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