It is delusional to suppose that we aren’t still churning out new mythologies just as the ancients did.
It is delusional to suppose that we aren’t still constantly chewing on the mysteries of our existence just as the ancients did, and that we aren’t still crafting stories to make sense of that which we find ourselves in — “reality.”
No, we simply stopped personifying the characters. We have developed a preference for numbers rather than letters; we have developed a preference for quantities rather than qualities.
But make no mistake: Campbell’s assertion that all mythologies and religions explain the same elementary principles with different characters and cultural contexts holds true. It’s still the very same beings clothed differently. It is all the same, and still do only the names change.
What is the string theory of modern physicists but Indra’s Net of the Hindus?
What does the Big Bang Theory do but agree with all religious peoples and all spiritualists that we all originate from One common Source?
God isn’t dead, no. He’s hiding in plain sight.
Mythology is more active than ever — it is merely less accessible to laypeople due to the wall of technical, scientific jargon that one must leap over to reach it. The saying still holds true: “at the top of the glass of natural sciences is atheism, but waiting at the bottom of the glass is God.”
One sip of liquor merely assaults the senses and scorches the tastebuds; a full glass, however, leads one to be under the influence of the spirit which they drank, intoxicating and altering the perception. Such is the wine of our natural sciences —
One sip sobers and shocks.
The full glass leads to spiritual inebriation.
THE CLOSET MYSTIC 