文档介绍：ratitor’s corner
september 22, 2001
september equinox, 4:27pm, pdt
The New Myth For Our Species:
The Creation of Consciousness
Today, the Sun, appearing to travel along the ecliptic, reaches the point where it crosses the equator into the
southern celestial hemisphere. Today day and night are of equal length.
Today rat haus pletes its sixth revolution around SOL and begins its 7th cycle.
This is the first ratitor’s corner in the last twelve months. I resigned last March, after 15
years, of working at Silicon Graphics, and have spent most of the time since doing the
"limbo walk", seeing what arises inwardly in this state of free-fall. This ratitorial is dedicated
to Elizabeth Thompson for all she has helped me see and experience in an utterly
contemporary way of my wholeness, of being linked back to expressing a more conscious,
living love of self, and of all I find I am embedded within throughout uni verse.
History and anthropology teach us that a human society cannot long survive unless its
members are psychologically contained within a central living myth. Such a myth
provides the individual with a reason for being.
--Edward Edinger, The Creation of Consciousness,
Jung’s Myth for Modern Man, 1984,
I find it so tragic and ironical that the age in which we live should regard the word
"myth" and "illusion" as synonymous, in view of the fact that the myth is the real history,
is the real event of the spirit. It is this immense world of meaning with which the image
links us. The myth is the tremendous activity that goes on in humanity all the time,
without which no society has hope or direction, and no personal life has a meaning. We
all live a myth whether we know it or not. We live it by fair means or we live it by foul.
Or we live it by a process or bination of both. We have a myth that we live badly.
The Christian myth is a myth in the real sense of the word.
--Laurens van der Post, "Race Prejudice as Self