377 - Annie Crawford - The Breakthrough of Myth
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And for Lewis, the key is myth. |
| 0:02.2 | In myth, mythic stories, not modern novels that are full of idiosyncrasies, but mythic stories, |
| 0:09.2 | what we have is an imaginative experience of universal truths. |
| 0:16.3 | And so myth itself will bring together our participatory, embodied, ritual, imaginative mode of reality |
| 0:24.9 | with all of these truths that reason has discovered, but give us an experience of them in a way that brings the parts of our soul back together. |
| 0:35.2 | What you're saying is really important. |
| 0:36.7 | And this is the question in some ways in symbolic world we've been talking about exactly what you're saying is really important. And this is the question in some ways in symbolic world |
| 0:38.3 | we've been talking about exactly what you're saying, |
| 0:40.3 | is that this is inevitable. |
| 0:43.3 | Like this is in some ways, |
| 0:44.3 | modernity is yielding to something like that? |
| 0:47.3 | The question is, is it simply going to happen to us? |
| 0:51.3 | Or will we have some form of participation |
| 0:54.7 | in the way it does? |
| 0:55.8 | Because sometimes these myths, they break in, |
| 0:59.4 | and then they break in ways that can also be extremely destructive. |
| 1:04.4 | We've talked about during COVID, the George Floyd situation, where of a sudden this story like just falls into |
| 1:14.4 | culture and like captures everybody and mobilizes everybody in the world, like not just in |
| 1:19.6 | America for some reason. Like all over Europe, people out in the streets, you know, and this |
| 1:25.0 | character gets lifted up, you know, like an almost divine figure. |
| 1:29.3 | But there are other types, there are other versions of that happening all the time where these stories kind of break in. |
| 1:35.3 | And, you know, it's interesting to think about till we have faces almost as a story about that. |
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