religion
It is here religious stories, if we read them intelligently and not as the script for yet another rescue plan, can be a help. They show us what it is like to be this thinking, feeling, troubled creature, formed by forces it had no control over, wandering in the haunted wood of existence.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic r
... See moreThe Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
In other words, a religious myth is a story capable of lifting the experience of being from the confines of time, space, randomness and blind automatism.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
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