tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5483827090651375569..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Forward into myth? Myth "dissolving into" history - or history into myth? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-55382640224321201482022-01-07T23:21:04.553+00:002022-01-07T23:21:04.553+00:00John C. Wright writes about the Catholics canonizi...John C. Wright writes about the Catholics canonizing some of the muses. I don't know if he's being facetious or serious but I like the idea. The Julenisse ought to be in some good place. My wife felt that some of the Arthurian characters were real people and break Christians maybe Saints.Brick Hardslabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07820448429677539704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-38909512168006440892022-01-05T13:34:37.988+00:002022-01-05T13:34:37.988+00:00@Karl and John. Thanks. This was one of the 'c...@Karl and John. Thanks. This was one of the 'channeled' posts which sometimes occur - I do not know what I am about to say, but the words come to me as I write them. Such posts always elicit comments or e-mails telling me that that they were timely and hit-home for at least one of my blog readers - so they seem to be something I have 'tuned-into' in some way. I don't have a theory about this, but the experience is quite distinctive and recurrent. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-7939970197236606642022-01-05T13:23:59.451+00:002022-01-05T13:23:59.451+00:00I have been "chewing" on this post since...I have been "chewing" on this post since you wrote it yesterday. It touches on matters that are vital to me, and I am deeply grateful for it.<br /><br />My guiding motto has been that Life is a Quest. My attraction to this formulation is precisely based in its mythic character. This simple reminder that life has an epic backdrop, and may be "put into songs or tales", to quote Sam, has been vital to me in maintaining a proper motivation and an attentiveness to the supernatural.<br /><br />"Thus we discover our-selves by myth - by the nature of the myths that move and fascinate us, and which link us with some but not others. Myths come welling-up from our true country, and our spiritual brotherhood that spans generations, is not bounded by space - and crosses between the mortal-living and resurrected worlds."<br /><br />Yes! My heart leaps at this description. <br /><br />"Discovery of one's True Self" as the object of the quest has had, on reflection, limited resonance for me. Framed in this "mere" way, it can feel a bit abstract and almost solipsistic. A vital sense of identity is co-created and social. Mere contemplation, divorced from communication, is ultimately emptying. <br /><br />Linking the rediscovery of one's True Self with the discovery of one's true spiritual country ("some, but not others") frames it more completely. Thanks for this shift in perspective.John Goeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206464455510064541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-42254633656846901182022-01-04T15:59:28.211+00:002022-01-04T15:59:28.211+00:00I just wanted to say that this is a really beautif...I just wanted to say that this is a really beautiful and meaningful post and I thank you for it.<br /><br />I've been thinking over the past few days about certain places in my life that have connected with what seems my deeper, "more real" self. Some are in my home town, quite ordinary places in many ways on the surface but which have always been very spiritually charged for me.<br /><br />There are a couple of places I've encountered abroad where I've felt a strange mythical connection that I won't sully by trying to articulate.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm rambling a bit, but I do think we can encounter places in our lives where those connections with a deeper reality can bring myth closer to our lived experience.Karlnoreply@blogger.com