The Myth of the Divine Double

The divine double is a mythic way of trying to capture this dynamic process which we've discussed at length in this series. It represents this process in kind of a linear narrative and therefore it simplifies it into a simple kind of teleology. But there's a sense in which I think that teleology is overly simplistic. It's not capturing the participatory nature. So what we're doing is you have this symbolic self that internalizes other people's perspectives, others who live a way, they make viable to you. As you internalize them and that self is transformed, the world is anagogically transformed out. They come to live within them until they live more Christ-like so