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. BRAVO!! How much more alive are myths and dreams - which is why the poets today are better off sleeping! Thomas Friese Association Eumeswil Vancouver http://www.eumeswil.org/
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