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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