The Myths That Make Us Horizon Series Part 3: Thrice Born
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Feb 12, 2024 Exploring modern myths in the digital age, the concept of self-creation and radical transformation, embracing mythic transformation in the chaotic wasteland, and an invitation to join a Dharma Artist Curriculum and Masterclass for mental resilience.
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Hero's Journey Is Only The Intro
- The classic Hero's Journey is an introduction that produces a twice-born hero who returns reborn to the ordinary world.
- Erick Godsey argues this model is now incomplete for our era of competing digital gods and multiple worldviews.
Digital Gods Create Multiple Worlds
- Modern psyches navigate multiple worlds because powerful tech 'gods' (Google, Meta, Apple, etc.) create many competing realities.
- Godsey says this plurality breaks the old single-world developmental myths and demands new capacities.
Experience Is A Nervous-System Construction
- Your experience of reality is entirely constructed by your nervous system and can be destroyed and rebuilt through radical change.
- Godsey frames 'dying while living' as destroying that constructed world and building a new one.