The sense of aesthetic rapture
For Ortoli and Witkowski (the pool of Archimedes, 1998) "the sense of myth is to serve as a bridge between science and ordinary mortals (including scientists), between the incomprehensible and the everyday, the magical and normal . Examples show how the myths of small bath of Archimedes. Newton's apple, the formula of Kekule bemzene, etc. ....
The "return to origin", characteristic of mythical and religious thought, is initiated by an inadequacy of knowledge. The origin of the myth is, for the common man, the fact of not being able to understand, to feel excluded from the path of ideas, not having access to large scientific theories for lack of adequate preparation.
Who knows the reality does not need myths, but for those who inhibit the perception of blood, horror, death, suffering and does not develop the tragic sense of life, the myth takes on the role (as in the fairy tale by Hans and Gretel) to disseminate the "seeds" * that take us back home, until they are ready, on their own (and with both hemispheres of the brain), to address the perils, pitfalls and proposals "sugar" produced by the false knowledge the body of his unconscious impulses and his powers Overmind (the witch of the woods)
But do not wiped out the thought that emerges from the universe mythical religious, mystical and psychological demands, in turn, to explain the reality invisible feelings, dreams and art through "formulas, rituals, alchemical correspondences and suggestions mythical-magical" unverifiable and inconsistent.
A hypothetical science of perception ", represented in mythology by the eagle of Zeus, might explain all types of visible and invisible, while it is clear that the scholarly interpretation of myths (anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, religious and theological) leaves faint traces over time.
The myth elaborated by the rational mind opens the doors to intuition than where it is regarded as the mystical foundation of discoveries and inventions. The interpretation of the mythical-magical reality instead allows access to a dimension of moral, ethical and spiritual common otherwise inaccessible to reason rationally anchored in what is measurable, tangible and verifiable by the scientific method. The sense of sacrifice and renunciation would have no meaning in a society where there was certainty of knowledge.
The Myth is the throne of Zeus, the undisputed ruler of Olympus. With Zeus there is never a certainty and steel firm over time, as the spiritual and cultural patterns of society continue to change, evolve and devolves through the 'ceaseless wheel of the cycle of life, death and rebirth, of creating the future, destruction and renewal of the symbols of the past that must be pulse of the age-old archetypes in human consciousness.
Zeus is the lord of the conscience that emerges from the female psyche. As an Eagle, the cognitive perception of reality, Zeus Pische helps to fill the bulb with the waters of the Styx, a metaphor for a first level of knowledge of the symbolic meaning which accompanies every psychic manifestation of the subconscious mind, unconscious and iperconscia, and kidnaps Ganinede to heaven, emblem of the "sense of the myth" that was the basis of "thought he sees.
"The thought that sees the" foundation "mystical" scientific intuition and the disintegration of "rationalization" intuition made mythic, religious, not "delight" most of the aesthetic, philosophical and edonostici that life can reserve the intellect that "vague" in search of reasons for living and dying.
"I do not think being a painter in the full sense of the word. If, when I was young, the painting was a great pleasure, at times I was not insensitive to a spontaneous feeling which surprised me, exactly, to know without hesitation reason for living and dying. And 'this feeling that led me to break free of purely aesthetic interest. For example, I happened to stop suddenly to paint to be surprised of being (the mystery), to have a pattern living in front of me (myth) and to hear that see 'life' had a much greater importance to devote to the pleasures of the art avant-garde. In 1925, tired of those pleasures, I thought it mattered little to find a new way of painting but for me it was rather of what needed to paint, to know why the mystery is put into question. "
Magritte.
etymology of the word myth.
"Clement of Alexandria reports that in the jargon-Orphic jeratico Mitos means" seed "seed"
so that every myth contains a grain or seed of truth, that once placed in the bottom of our hearts, would germinate the numinous consciousness "(John Washer). This definition agrees with the image of the seeds dispersed by Hans and Gretel during the first phase of expulsion (forced) from the parental home (the knowledge and morality of the group).
The seeds of the myth are then swallowed by the system of perception (in the story are eaten by birds) and then introjected within the automatic system of cognition (the cognitive self). And 'thanks to the nurturing of the myth that the meaning can emerge spontaneously delal truth essential to recognize the false prophets, gurus and masters generated by the bad conscience of Western (the witch), able to manipulate the individual and collective unconscious drives (the forest) with technical transformation of self "and deliberately sweetened soft" so that it can be the illusion of healing or change