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Themis Doesn’t Belong to You, Officer

By EM Posted on June 6, 2020 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with debunking, mythology
Themis Doesn’t Belong to You, Officer

Recently D.C. police conducted an anti-protest crackdown dubbed “Operation Themis.” Read my op-ed in Cunning Folk Magazine about how classical mythology can be weaponized in service to white supremacy, and how this particular goddess flies defiantly in the face of that.

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Wordless Word

By EM Posted on April 10, 2020 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with direct experience, God, loneliness, Tao
Wordless Word

I find I would rather apprehend the knowable unknowable than attempt to put Logos into words.

Some things are better lived than said.

“Some things are more important than words,” Marigold said to Guy. “Some things only shrink into little shells when you try to describe them.”

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Myth, Science and Unicorn Mind

By EM Posted on May 25, 2016 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with direct mind, epistemology, mythology, science, scientism
Myth, Science and Unicorn Mind

In the first chapter of Before Philosophy, Henri and Henriette Frankfort pointed out that the language of myth, which they called “speculative thought,” isn’t so common these days, because science. In our own time speculative thought finds its scope more severely limited than it …

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Science Can Be Personal

By EM Posted on May 16, 2015 Posted in Be Tagged with personhood, relationship, science
Science Can Be Personal

In an earlier post, I started compiling the passages I like best from the first chapter of Before Philosophy, because there’s something in there that strikes a chord and I want to tease out what it is. I left off with …

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Well That Explains a Lot

By EM Posted on May 8, 2015 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with direct mind, epistemology, mythology, personhood
Well That Explains a Lot

I mentioned I’ve been reading Before Philosophy by Henri and Henriette Frankfort, et al. And I mentioned it’s one of my favorite treatises on mythology. What I didn’t mention is the lights-on moment I got the first time I picked up this book, which …

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More than Metaphor

By EM Posted on April 26, 2015 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with consubstantiation, mythology
More than Metaphor

In my last post about mythology, I said that myth isn’t metaphor. Metaphor is a popular way to look at myth these days, which is why it deserves some pushback. I maintain that myths are not allegories of the human psyche. Of course, any lens can be …

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Chill Out, Jo-Cam

By EM Posted on April 17, 2015 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with critique, debunking, mythology, psychology
Chill Out, Jo-Cam

The other day a friend of mine asked me what I have against the mythologist Joseph Campbell. Every time the guy’s name comes up, I swear; also, I love mythology. So what’s your problem, my friend asked. That’s a fair question. I …

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Jesus Year: What Does It Mean for Christ to Live in Your Heart?

By EM Posted on December 1, 2014 Posted in God and the Tao, Mythognosis Tagged with consubstantiation
Jesus Year: What Does It Mean for Christ to Live in Your Heart?

Asking Jesus into your heart is a dead horse of a phrase that’s been beaten by, I don’t know how many clichés. It’s one of the dearest and perhaps most important ideas to have cemented itself into the vocabulary of evangelical Christianese. …

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Jesus Year: Resurrection

By EM Posted on April 20, 2014 Posted in God and the Tao, Mythognosis Tagged with consubstantiation, ontology, transformation
Jesus Year: Resurrection

One of the ideas I’ve always liked best about the story of Jesus’s resurrection is that he didn’t just die and then rise again after three arbitrary days. Rather, it’s that on an ontological level, Jesus had life itself within him. He …

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Jesus Year: Crucifixion

By EM Posted on April 19, 2014 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with pain
Jesus Year: Crucifixion

The other day we went for a drive toward Mount Hood. I was feeling sick, so I stayed in the car when the family got out to explore the woods in the snow. But they were gone a long time, so …

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If my children were fairy tale characters, they'd be King Sturdy and Shortshanks. I'd be the Master Maid. As for the mister, he'd be Boots of course.

 

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