Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Exploring the formation of the myth/metaphor layer in Causal Layered Analysis through embodied cognition, revealing how shared metaphors evolve into myths that shape worldviews and futures.
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We have to be careful of the metaphors we use to make meaning, because metaphors are the language of spirit, and that’s how we operate in our fields of existence either to increase or decrease connectedness within creation.
The most fundamental values in a culture will be coherent with the metaphorical structure of the most fundamental concepts in the culture.
Myths are not false stories about the ancient past. They are symbolic motifs that represent and dramatize perennial patterns, the structures of meaning that are always with us. Myths allow us to bring these intuitive, implicit patterns into consciousness to make them shareable and allow us to internalize, ritualize, and apprehend them in more revea
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In actuality we feel that no metaphor can ever be comprehended or even adequately represented independently of its experiential basis.
