mythopoeic.... or mythopoetic. mythos precedes logos. mythos *grounds* logos. without the mythos the logos is isolated from truth.
philosophical/scientific/abstract thought (logos) is dependent on 'mythopoeic thought' (mythos) for it to have any value - it is the mythopoetic resonance of any statement that reveals truth. truth is felt. a mythopoetic interpretation is a *creative interpretation*. the interpretation creates a new way of experiencing truth. in times past our myths were passed on through the generations, keeping us in contact with truth and informing/cohering the collective. this situation is stable...but maybe too stable. in any case that stability has been eroded - over the last 400 years especially, though it began long before then. it was around 400 years ago that the logos began declaring its (imaginary) independence from the mythos and this declaration, genuinely inspired by champions of free thought, has hamstrung efforts to integrate meaning within our logocentric worldview.... because meaning is only disclosed through the mythopoetic resonance of the logos. creation requires destruction. the two, as with all polar pairs, are inseparable. the myths of old had to be dispensed with, forgotten, discredited, for new myths to be created. the pseudo-independent logos has helped us forget....we have lost touch with our myths and this is the root cause of alienation. but it is also a catalyst for a new phase in myth creation. the mythopoetic interpretation *of our own lives* is this new phase and this is what joseph campbell talks about in his final 'masks of god' volume - 'creative mythology'. alienation leaves us alone, lost, confused. we are unanchored. the rules we are given to live by ring hollow. they do not originate from the mythos; rather they are the product of a steroidally inflated and consequently paranoid logos. the ego is the psycho-societal tool that keeps us in our place - the ego is the egregor in miniature. but the unanchored logos - in its crazy, inspired flailings - is undermining its erstwhile ally. life becomes such a challenge that the ego becomes an impediment to survival...indeed the human question is now very simple: evolution or extinction. evolution entails evolving beyond the ego, into the transpersonal psycho-sociology of the superego, and also back into the iddish ground from whence we came. a unification. this unification is creative. creation can only occur through unity. spontaneity is the mode of creativity and spontaneity is dynamic - non-dual. we can now create/interpret our own lives, perpetually attuned to the mythopoetry of life. this is the end of time. om> wrote: > Hello, since we're in a mythological mood, and > I'm currently doing some personal inquiry into > ghosts > that has overlapped into myths I came upon this > word: > mythopoeic (myth-making). Wikipedia defines this > term > as "pre-philosophical thought" differing from > current > modern thought which is "philosophical, impersonal, > abstract, and scientific". How might the moq define > mythopoeic? Here's a quote with a link to the site: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeic_thought > > > > "The term mythopoeic means "myth-making" (from > Greek muthos, "myth", and poiein, "to create"). A > group of Near Eastern specialists used the term in > their 1946 book The Intellectual Adventure of > Ancient > Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient > Near East, later republished as the 1949 paperback > Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of > Ancient Man.[1] In this book's introduction, two of > the specialists, Henri and Mrs. H. A. Frankfort, > argue > that mythopoeic thought characterizes a distinct > stage > of human thought that differs fundamentally from > modern, scientific thought. Mythopoeic thought, the > Frankforts claim, was concrete and personifying, > whereas modern thought is abstract and impersonal: > more basically, mythopoeic thought is > "pre-philosophical", while modern thought is > "philosophical".[2] Because of this basic contrast > between mythopoeic and modern thought, the > Frankforts > often use the term "mythopoeic thought" as a synonym > for ancient thought in general." > > > SA > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/mail Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
