If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie.
If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it’s true. Myth is the penultimate truth.
-- Joseph Campbell
“Cultures Linked By Man’s Ideas,” Houston Chronicle, 11-10-86
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[…] What Joseph Campell has alluded to regarding marriage is definitely in connection with the spirit. And wouldn’t one think, for a myth to have a deeply satisfying character, it must address the human spiritual need? Where science fails today, as we can see, is in taking a purely materialist position. In so doing, as many others including Richard Dawkins and Deepak Chopra have debated, modern science is overlooking (if not missing) the element of consciousness. What is consciousness, where has it come from, and what is its nature? These questions are answered spiritually, and their poetic answers arrive from myth. […]