Friday, December 21, 2012
Inner and Outer Myth
It seems to me that Carl Jung was
frightened, or at least put off after WWII, in applying myth to outer
politics, and he used myth mainly as a way to understand inner
psychology. This was probably due, understandably, to the Nazis, but
it was an overreaction. This seems to have happened to Mircea Eliade
as well. But politics needs myth, politics needs sacred goals, politics
needs religion.
That being said, the romantic and religious
vision of evolving to Godhood needs more classically cautious
politics and a basic revitalized conservative perspective, even if
the evolutionary goal is not explained traditionally. Over the long term, ordered evolution works better than revolution.
The inner activated religious goal of eventually
evolving to Godhood in the cosmos involves politics as well as
individual psychology. It is primarily a
religious movement which involves bio-cultural evolution, politics,
and social values.
Although I use the term religion rather
than myth, and science is also needed in attaining the material-supermaterial goal, the Inward Path in the Twofold Path affirms the inner myth of the Father Within
and the Outward Path affirms the outer myth of the evolution to Godhood.
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