What’s with the ‘eternal’? April 7, 2009
Posted by Ian in Comparative Religion, Merleau-Ponty, Myth, Religion and Faith.trackback
All this talk of eternity is just another way for coming at mythological rationality, mythological ‘reality.’ I really suspect that the mythic is one of the primary means available to express the eternal in temporal circumstances.
Of course, myths are temporal, even if they open a path toward the eternal. Through them the divine nourishes the temporal, but the difference between the two is really important. If you start conflating myths with eternity itself, then you begin to over-inflate the temporal elements of myth.
You know, I am thinking about just using simpler sounding words like the invisible and visible world. I tend to avoid that formulation because it makes it sound like there is this ‘other’ world like our own that we just can’t see . I don’t like that, it feels a little too much like the ‘old man in the sky’ concept of divinity.
However, it does sounds more ‘natural’ to my ears than some of the formulations I have developed in its place. I’ll think about it.
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