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Topic: The connotation of Myth
For all of my mythological existance I have
always seen myth as a story. But not just a story, a false story. I have learned of monsters and mortals, gods and warriors
and all the time knew they were only figments of my childhood imagination. The invisible man, Raskolnikov, and Mr. Rochester
were also indeed false, though they linger in my present memory: the previous only lingering in my past. The denotation
of the word (logos), myth, is far different in my mind, than the word's connotation. Myth is the embodiement of
falsehood. It is a secret that is told in the cinemas and the stories your grandfather tells as you sip your creamy
hot chocolate by the fire. It is not the God you pray to each night or the dreams you had when you slept in
the Holiday Inn on a Disneyland vacation. Grendel really wasn't brutally killed by the sword of Beowolf,
and the Toothfairy doesn't really live in a tooth village deep inside the tree trunk behind your house. Inside the dark
recesses of our minds we hide these things inside a connotation, but, "The
dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life
and all that is needed". -- Joseph Campbell.
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10 February 2005
"It is only the story...that saves our progress
from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, we are
blind."
-Chinua Achebe
For centuries, sotries have been used to share humanity's most
powerful truths, and most impressionable lessons. Our life stories connect us to other people; people we have relationships
with, people we dislike, and people we have never met. One day someone will tell a story about me, to someone I have
never met, and that person will tell it to another person, and vicariously i will become tied to that person. As human
nature we tell and retell stories; we tell stories to comfort, educate, and inspire those around us. To tell a story
is to build relationships with others, even if at the end of the story you have to spice it up with the inevitable
cliche: "And then I found ten dollars!" The words "I have a story..." can be magical words, and we should
always be grateful for them.
Dream Journal:
Preface: I have a coveted lego-man keychain armed in knight armor that protects
my six keys and is branded with a mightey lion on its chest. Recently the left leg and the left hand was dismembered.
I was very distraught and have been searching for his missing appendages.
Dream: I dreamt that my roommate and I were racing around West Yellowstone
in a black 4runner and the breaks did not seem to be working so, because I was driving, we kept almost tipping
it and running into snow banks. (I recently tipped a snowmobile over onto myself which could have triggered this.) Anyway,
we reached our cabin and realized with great surprise that my boyfriend, Chad, had found my lego-man's leg and hand.
When I woke up I told my roommate that we had found the appendages but when I asked Chad for them, he did
not know what I was talking about and I was quite disappointed. It was quite a nightmare.
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15 February 2005
In class in came to my attention that some think that
the Lord God came to Mary in the form of a dove, she became pregnant, and gave birth to the savior Jesus Christ. I disagree
for the following reasons:
Luke Chapter 1 verse 35: "The angle answered,"The
Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshawdow you. So the Holy one to be born will be called
the Son of God."(Holy Bible NIV).
Matthew Chapter 1 verse 18: "This is how the
birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she
was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit."
Mark Chapter 1 verse 10: This is the only descent
of God as a dove in the sense of the beginning of Jesus. "As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn
open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove." Note that this was during John the Baptist's baptism of Jesus so he was
much older than a child much less a fetus.
There is no birth narrative in John because it focuses on the later teachings
of Jesus seen firsthand by a disciple.
Thus I reached the conclusion that the Holy Spirit descended onto Mary
as a shadow and she therefor concieved Jesus Christ without the help of a dove.
28 FEBRERO 2005
women:
What we're all about
WOMEN: THE UNMOVED MOVERS
A good man once said: "We don't learn about the real thing by studying the counterfeit,
we learn about the counterfeit by studying the real thing."
Goddess were often protrayed as faceless and feetless.
The Great mother: an analysis of the archytype By Eric Newmann.
Etiology of Hebrew: Because women are taken from man, they should only want and serve
men.
DEPTH
PSYCHOLOGISTS
Freud and Juna: Studied the unconcious.Zone of psycic activity that we are not concious
of.
-Subconcious-something that can be evoked by simple words. Easily activated.
-Unconcious- Comes in strange ways. Humans are like houses: Three parts: Ego, Superego,
Id.
Freud
Juna
Shaper of modern mind
Thinks everyone has a
Says we need to give expression Private store bin of re-
but we need to channel energy to repressed memories.
socially acceptable things. -collective
unconcious-*Fantasy Secrete
passageway that
*Slip of the tongue
connects all people.
*Dreams
-You remember every-
Archetypes are found in: thing
from yourself to
Dreams, fairytales, fantasy and all archetypes from the
myth.
beginning of time.
Joesph C.- Dream is a personalized myth and a myth is a depersonalized dream.
Transpersonal: NOt about you- but about others- more of an archetypal image.
ARCHETYPES-Events and activities(Journey, qwest) People playing out a larger story ex:
Wizard of Oz.
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