The Power of Myth

Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that have then to find expression in symbolic form.

soul’s high adventure,

In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is a killer. The

Minotauromachy,

MOYERS: No, but given the absence of initiation rituals, which have largely disappeared from our society, the world of imagination as projected on that screen serves, even if in a faulty way, to tell that story, doesn’t it?

Thomas Mann

The vision came to him out of his intention.

I have a feeling that consciousness and energy are the same thing somehow. Where you really see life energy, there’s consciousness.

every land should be a holy land. One should find the symbol in the landscape itself of the energies of the life there. That’s what all early traditions do. They sanctify their own landscape.