The Need For Mythic Statements

A mythic or symbolic understanding of why we are here is as important as, say, the scientific explanation of how we got here. Each points to a different realm of experience. Scientific cosmology is concerned with external reality, space and matter. A mythic cosmology says yung springs from our psychic wholeness,. The union of the external and thein ternal, the conscious and the unconscious. this is what jung is pointing to when he makes the claim in our opening quote, that we have a need for mythic statements.

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