by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In her book, A short history of Myth, Karen Armstrong tells us that the purpose of mythology is to help us to live more intensely within the world. It is nearly always rooted in the fear of death and extinction. The most power myths are about extremity – they force us...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
Karen Armstrong argues that symbolism came more naturally to people in the pre-modern world that it does today. The Greeks referred to two different ways of knowing: Mythos and Logos. Both were essential and neither were superior to the other. Each had its sphere of...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 13, 2020 | News |
The Greeks, who gave birth to rationalism, were not interested in using rational tools in engaging with spiritual questions. Karen Armstrong suggests that the Greeks intuitively knew that rationalism was the wrong tool for approaching the world of the numinous and the...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 13, 2020 | News |
Richard Tarnas makes the case that in order to understand the modern mind we must travel back in time and look through the different lenses upon which our worldview is built. We need to ‘recover our roots’ in order to more fully understand the values, views and ideas...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
Declan Kiberd writes that the aim of Ulysses was to create a different kind of reader, one who after reading it would experience the world in a very different way. He wanted to free people from all kinds of constriction, including passive readership. Joyce hoped that...
