Re: Aliens, dinosaurs and ape men

[Gerd Groenewold <venator@win.bright.net>]

Hello all,


> To me, myths are the most profound reality, the reality itself, but, am I not mythmaking the myths?
> 
> Best wishes
> roberto

If we consider the idea that myth and dream are related, I am reminded
of something Jünger said about us meeting certain people and figures
first in dream, and then being disappointed when we see them in
reality.  This sort of idealism is something I really relate to.  I find
in myths archetypes, not necessarily in the Jungian sense so much as in
the greek sense, the sense of "original type" of which most of what we
meet in "reality" is a reflection.  In myth I find life.  Science, on
the other hand, seems much more cold and dead.  Disection, preservation
in jars of formaldehyde, catalogueing, statistical analysis, etc. All of
this lacks life, it reduces it to dead tissue or to numbers.

GERD