Abstract
AbstractThis chapter takes not only into a historic perspective that looks at human consciousness development over many millennia, but emphasizes the importance of mythology as the most deeply ingrained way of humankind to keep learning for transformations. The author argues, contrary to the modern mind’s needs, that the creative aspect of change or transformation is not order, but disorder or chaos. To avoid the final fragmentation or destruction of our world, the intuitive ‘universal power of self-renewal’ (the life instinct) needs to be reintegrated into rational science, to fill our scientific particularization (the death instinct) with meaning, which is adequate to living in a humane way on our planet. This makes the story of the soul (Greek: psyche), which is passed on by peoples and cultures in a nonlinear-out-of-time-way, not only an important resource to understand the entire civilizational process and subsequently the development of regenerative civilizations. By allowing the forthcoming of an innate integral structure in the human mind, which uses both rationality and intuition, creative mythology is a discipline important for transformation literacy. It can contribute to the so much needed acceleration and speed up the process of collective regeneration, because this is a creative act and unleashes what was previously impossible.
Highlights
This chapter takes into a historic perspective that looks at human consciousness development over many millennia, but emphasizes the importance of mythology as the most deeply ingrained way of humankind to keep learning for transformations
Science has so far widely neglected the role of the human mind in manifesting future
What Joseph Campbell (1968) called ‘Creative Mythology’ can be used as a tool to bring into the light of our consciousness a new, but at the same time already, innate psychic reality, which may enable us to find new solutions for world problems, and pathways into a future in which development does not benefit anymore only a privileged minority, but humanity as a whole
Summary
There is an inherent tendency in people who aspire to contribute to a transformation of our world to only take the present as a mental starting point for the creation of a different future, without understanding the historical lineage of mythical structures that underpin the present collective and individual behaviour. This article argues that the immersion with the story of the soul, and its manifestations in mythical
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