we haven’t stopped churning out mythologies. we’ve simply stopped viewing them as myth. we’ve simply reduced the instances in which our myths are labeled as religious. they hide in plain sight.
the thing is that fiction is true. fiction tells us of latent potentials within the psyche. all fiction is a blueprint and guidebook. our stories tell us what can become of us. our stories grant us options. will you be a hero or a villain? which is which?
ah, to be frank, I think the only true villains of any story are the extras. the villain is not the antagonist, because the villain is their own personal hero, don’t you see? all villains are heroes to someone. all heroes, even, are villains to another.
but the extras, the complacent ones, these are heroes to none. these are the lawful evils. a life of true villainy is a life of comfort, a life dedicated to no cause.
the backs of the deadweight masses make up the steps of the mountain that villains summit.
…
we have not stopped churning out mythologies. not one bit. every single person has their own personal myth. mythology is the epic tale of each and every one of our hearts.
do you not think that there are elements of mythology found in the far reaches of the intolerant right? do you not think that Trump, to them — a man they’ve never met — has reached mythic status within their own psyches? do you not think he is their own personal solar hero? do you not think that the “0.001%” or “deep state” is, to them, his beast to be slain? conversely, do you not think the far left sees the far right as the beast to be slain?
see this: mythology is everywhere, merely dressed in laymen’s clothing. mythology is in The Princess Bride. Westley, that solar hero representing the ultimate light of goodness and potency, holding powers threefold within himself — conquering Inigo, Fezzik, and Fizzini — who dies, resurrects, slays the tyrant king, and reunites with his consort, Buttercup, true love conquering all.
Why can they not be considered a modern Osiris and Isis? It’s all the same, only the names will change. In a postmodern society, where science has shattered superstitious shackles — perhaps presenting its own form of confinement in and of itself, too — the myths, too, experience a form of resurrection.
they live on, resurrecting even past their apparent death.
myth is alive everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
I think this: to me, spiritual awakening is about recognizing that life is a storybook, life is a dream. gradually, we might identify with the hand holding the pen, rather than merely being written in by that unconscious force. integrating the unconscious is learning why the hand writes the way it does, then entering conversation with it. gradually, we co-create and help shape destiny through that marvelous creative force known as free will.
yes, if life is a dream, then spiritual awakening is about becoming a lucid dreamer. spiritual awakening is about recognizing that the impulses of the unconscious shape the formation of our manifest world. we look inside at the root, rather than outside at the branches.
this is why myth is so awfully important. this is why fiction is so awfully important. what are they but us studying our lines? what is reading a tale of heroism and bravery but rehearsal for the great play of life? we must give our spirits the choreography if we expect to be able to dance in step and time.
find your personal mythology and live it darlings
THE CLOSET MYSTIC 