From: litewave99@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 6:42:48 PM UTC+2, a_rod_777 wrote:   
      
   > Refer to Joseph Campbell on the function of mythology and symbolism in the   
   human psyche.   
   >    
   > "“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has   
   been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because   
   the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images,   
   beyond that bounding rim    
   of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim,   
   to what can be known but not told.”   
   > ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth "   
      
   I wouldn't say that the ultimate truth cannot be put into words. You can make   
   up a word for anything, that's not a problem. The problem is that if it is   
   something that is radically different from what people normally know or   
   experience and you want to    
   communicate it to them you must use words that are familiar to them and that   
   simultaneously denote things that are similar in a relevant way to the thing   
   you are trying to communicate. So you use analogies, metaphors - the stuff of   
   poetry and myths.   
      
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