"A myth is something that never happened but is always happening" - Tom Robbins https://t.co/JNcQcj00BS
"A myth is something that never happened but is always happening" - Tom Robbins https://t.co/JNcQcj00BS
Myths are powerful creatures, after all. They create our reality as much as they describe it: as the novelist Terry Pratchett once put it, ‘People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.’10 And if the myths we reach for in conditions of stress and crisis are ones about overshoot and collapse, and we all start to
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Myths contain "timeless truths" about the human condition, said Jung.
Example: The hero's journey is an archetypal pattern found in many cultures. https://t.co/6plJ4YBc1F
This is no kindergarten fairy tale, but an extremely powerful myth that continues to shape the lives of billions of humans and animals