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Mythology is a branch science of human consciousness

Sign Stimulus

Innate Releasing Mechanisms or IRM’S

Faculty X

Archetypal Icons

DNA Imprint

Parallel Development

Diffusion Theory

Culture Area Theory

Pseudo Historic Metamorphosis

St. Nicholas Hold Nikkor

Whenever a myth has been taken literally its sense has been perverted’ but also reciprocally, that whenever it has been dismissed as a mere priestly fraud or sign of inferior intelligence, truth has slipped out the door.

Asobase-Kotobe: Japanese play form

Creativity

Is the intense encounter between the artist and

His/her world.

Rollo May

The Courage to Create

Alan Ball American Beauty

August Strindberg’s Matches

“An eruption of emotion” Leo Frobenius

Linda Schierse Leonard’s

Meeting the Mad Woman

Meetings with Unbelievably Mad Women

Every study undertaken by Man was the genuine outcome of curiosity, a kind of game. All the data of natural science, which are responsible for Man’s domination of the world, originated in activities that were indulged in exclusively for the sake of amusement.

Konrad Lorenz

The Play’s the thing…

“Das Ewig-Weibliche Zieht uns hinan.”

“The Eternal Feminine draws us onward.”

Von Goethe

The great tragedy of Christianity is its obsession with what was true once as opposed to what is

true always.

Alan Watts: The Wisdom of Insecurity

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

Mythology reveals the anabasis progression of the human brain

Spinal Column/ Cerebral Cortex/ Triumvirate Brain

Reptilian Brain

Limbic Brain

The Evolved Brain/ The Future Brain/Faculty X

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Where Eastern Mysticism and Western Psychology meet:

1. All the gods and goddesses are within the human brain

2. A man’s fate is his character

3. A man’s character and fate can be altered through Brain Change

There are three pathways to Genius:

Music, Math and Myth

James Hillman

Human consciousness is like living in a vast cathedral-- few ever leave the confessional.

Lower Consciousness cannot fathom higher consciousness.

Colin Wilson

The myth is the foundation of life, the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows

when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Thomas Mann

Inanna opened her ear to the moaning of her sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld and abandoned her

realm of heaven and earth, even her temples, to descend into the "great below". "With the me in her possession, she

prepared herself:" placing her crown upon her head, beads of lapis lazuli around her neck, sparkling stones fastened to her breast (Henderson & Oakes, p. 102) , a gold ring around her

wrist, and a royal robe upon her body. She bound a breastplate about her chest and took a lapis measuring rod

and line in her hand. Then she set out for the kur, the netherworld, with her faithful servant, Ninshubur.

When she arrived at the outer gates of the kur she commanded Ninshubur to wait for three days, and if she had not returned, to call upon the elder Gods for help.When Inanna challenged the gatekeeper to gain entry into the kur, he consulted with Ereshkigal, telling her that a giant and powerful goddess, arrayed in splendor and with signs of authority, was waiting to enter Her realm.

Brain

Intelligence

Ego

Id

Flight or Fight

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All mythology and the corresponding symbols that derive from them originate from specific regions of the human body.

1. Anus/Hell/Misogyny/Evil/Oppression,

Dragons, Jerks, Orphans, homophobia

2.Genitals/Desire/Gods/Wealth/Heaven/ Couplings.

3. Stomach/Religion/ Sacrifice/Labyrinth/ Eternal life/After life/Power

4. Heart/Love/Romance//Life/Death

5.Throat/Communication/MagickHarmony, Law, Education, Art

6. Pineal Gland/ Intuition/ Soul Omniscience/Wisdom

7. God/Genius/Wizard/Imagination Paradise/Myth/Epiphany/Enlightenment

1. Orphan/Fool

2. Wanderer/Merchant/Renunciate

3. Warrior/Hero

4. Innocent

5. Apprentice/Magician

6. Wizard/World Teacher/Monarch

Provincial World

Magical World of Journey

Return World

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Emerald City, Threshold Guardian, and Glynda, Crone, and Heirophant Return World, Oannes, the fish god, Kingdom of Heaven is within you, My father’s kingdom is rent upon the earth, but none can see it. The Jewel in the Lotus, Sleeping Serpent, the awakened buddha,

Red Dragon, Dragon and the George. Silence of the Lambs.

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large

brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”

Albert Einstein

Where do Myths come from?

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Spirituality

God = Imagination

Soul

The dark shadow of intuition is the intuitive opportunism of the sociopath.

James Hillman

Since the beginning of civilization humankind has been

faced with one choice

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-- deliberate, contrived and dishonest--

but the myth-- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forbearers. We subject all facts to a prefabricated

set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Whether to conform or not to conform

Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? The deeper we sound, the

further down into the lower world of the past we probe and press, the more do we find that the

earliest foundations of humanity, its history and culture, reveal themselves unfathomably.

Thomas Mann

Tetrologu Joseph and His Brothers

All modern religions derive from three primitive obsessions

Cannibalism

Human Sacrifice

Animal Sacrifice

Interceding Images from the Right Brain

Bodhisattva

Gate, Gate, Paragate Parasam Gati

Bodhi svaha

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

The 12 Stages of Story Development

1. Theme

2. Paradigm

3. Premise

4. External Structure

THEME

What’s the story really about?

Truth/Falsity

Greed/Bounty

Love/ Hate

Slavery/Freedom

External Story Structures

Structural Archetypes

MYTH

HERO Outlaw

Sex and beauty are as inseparable as life and consciousness and the intelligence that arises from sex and beauty, as with life and

consciousness, is intuition.

D.H. Lawrence

The Magical Stranger Returns

Three Tiers of Political Power

1. Prevailing Elite

2. Marginal Bureaucrats

3. Dissident Rebel/Revolutionaries

Return

World of Story

30

Inciting Incident

Reversal

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Ghost

Betrayal Trial

Martyrdom

Miracles and Wonders

Intuition is the very fount of consciousness from which springs: Science, Physics, Math, Medicine, Art, Literature, Myth and religion. Anyone who has ever spent time with a physicist will be impressed with how much they rely upon their intuition. The fundamentalist is just as preoccupied with his intuition and is obsessed with proven how right he is at every turn as though his god’s effectiveness depended on it. Indeed, it does. He will even subvert the truth in pursuit of his intuitive correctness.

The Messiah Story

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Cool Hand Luke

Jesus of Montreal

Dead Poets Society

Jean De Florette

Spartacus

Always do what you’re afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Should he choose to conform,that individual is a dead man for every life decision he will make has already been determined for

him by society at large.

Should he choose not to conform he buys himself one more choice-

To become outlaw or hero.

Sigmund Freud

The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the

mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot,

indeed, must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized

avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. “Live”, Nietzsche says, ‘ as though the day were here.’ It is not society that is to guide

the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.” Hero with a Thousand Faces

For surely it is folly to preach to children who will be riding rockets to the moon a morality and cosmology based on concepts of the Good Society and of man’s place in nature that were coined before the harnessing of the horse. And the world is far too small , and men’s stake in sanity too great, for any more of the old games of the Chosen Folk (whether of Jehovah, Allah, Wotan, Manu, or the Devil) by which tribesman were sustained against their enemies in the days when the serpent still could talk.

22 Heroic Attributes Common to most Archetypal Heroes

1. His birth is prophesized and highly anticipated.

2. He is an Orphan.

3. His Mother is royalty and a virgin

4. His Father is a king

5. His conception was immaculate or unusual.

6. He is reputed to be the son of a god

7. At birth an attempt is made on his life.

8. He is spirited away at birth and raised by his nemesis or in order to hide him from his conspirators/assassins.

9. Reared by foster-parents in a far country

10. Sketchy Details of his childhood.

11.On reaching manhood he goes on a quest.

12. He defeats a dragon, ogre or Threshold Guardian.

13. He marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor.

14. He enters the Underworld/ defeats the Lord of the Underworld.

15. He returns to the provincial world

16. He prescribes laws and moral dictums

17. He later loses favor with the gods and or his people

18. He is driven from from the throne and the city

19. He meets with a mysterious, gruesome or untimely death

20. Often at the top of a hill. The Hill of his ancestors.

21. His body is not buried, but nevertheless he has one or more holy sepulchres.

22. His Spirit or ghost returns one day as p.

"Indeed, the great Leonardo remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way; It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

Sigmund Freud, 1910

Everywhere I go I find that artists and poets have been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

Then Ereshkigal fastened on Inanna the eye of death. She spoke against her the word of wrath. She uttered against her the cry of guilt. She struck her.Inanna was turned into a corpse, A piece of rotting meat, And was hung from a hook on the wall. After three days, Ninshubur went to Enlil, God of Air, who refused to help, for the Underworld was not in His domain. Ninshubur went to Nanna, God of the Moon, who also refused to help, for he had no jurisdiction over the Underworld. Finally, Ninshubur went to Enki, God of Wisdom and Water, who originally blessed Inanna with the me of descent into and ascent from the kur. Enki was grieved and troubled. From under his fingernails he took dirt and created two creatures, neither male nor female, and gave them the food and water of life to carry to Inanna.These creatures snuck into the kur like flies, slipping through the cracks in the gates.

They entered the throne room and found Ereshkigal lying naked and unkempt, moaning "Oh! Oh! My inside!".Following Enki's instructions, they also moaned "Oh! Oh! Your inside!".Again she moaned "Ohhh! Oh! My outside!"To which the creatures replied "Ohhh! Oh! Your outside!"She continued to moan out her agony and they continued to name her pains back to her. Finally, she stopped moaning and blessed the creatures, offering them any gift they desired. They asked for Inanna's corpse, and revived her with the food and water of life. Inanna then arose and ascended to the upper world.

“A belief is not an idea the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind.”

Robert Oxton Bolt

Thirteen

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Moons MONTHS

MENSTRUAL PERIODS

Days Years

12 plus 1

12 Jurors/1 judge

Buildings/Stories/Floors

Bar Mitzvah

Circumcision/Initiation/Catechism

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