The Inversion of Our True Myths with Betty Kovacs

Betty J. Kovacs, PhD, taught symbolic/mythic language for twenty-five years. She has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont, California, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. Dr. Kovacs is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of The Scientific and Medical Network 2019 Book Prize and a Nautilus Silver Award. She has also written The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life. Her website is www.kamlak.com.

Here she maintains that, throughout the world, original myths describe our connection with an invisible world in which we partake of immortality. This is expressed in ancient cave cultures and shamanistic traditions. It can be found is esoteric culture worldwide. In particular she focuses on myths concerning the Tree of Life. She suggests that this myth was inverted by the Deuteronomists around 620 BCE and that this inversion has shaped Western culture, and caused much suffering.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on May 11, 2020)

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Betty Kovacs, The Miracle of Death: There is Nothing But Life – https://amzn.to/3cwv7NM

Margaret Barker, The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God – https://amzn.to/3cqL5Jc

Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams, The Shamans of Prehistory – https://amzn.to/2Lncdgq

Bradford Keeney, The Bushman Way of Tracking God – https://amzn.to/2zxj1FF

Goethe’s Faust – https://amzn.to/2YZSjQw

Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic – https://amzn.to/3dHw71F

Karl Kerényi, En El Laberinto – https://amzn.to/3dG6L4j

Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment – https://amzn.to/3bq3V1H

Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition – https://amzn.to/2T20EQ0

Francis Bacon, On the Advancement of Learning – https://amzn.to/2WPjsTA

Anne Baring & Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image – https://amzn.to/3fMC5jL

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