GETTING BACK TO WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED
Take me back sings Van Morrison (1991) in search for when it felt so right, so …
Practical mythology is not studying some exotic event/phenomenon but a rather useful way to re-order your/our daily realities to changed environments. We humans need rituals to transform these realities.
Practical mythology, from an anthropological gaze, is how human systems (families, groups, communities, networks, nations, corporations, religions) remember major collective/contextual events in order to rework and transform in adapting to major, system-in-contexts, changes.
Animal have to cope with the same predicaments but do not need mythology in the way humans do!
Humanity, as a glorious (evolutionary) accident, developed reconciliation rituals to make the transformations (irreversable changes) necessary to let go of unbearable individual and collective pains (traumas). outdated patterns, codes, habits.
We humans need to return frequently (collectively) to animal paradise.
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‘JE ZIET HET PAS ALS JE HET DOOR HEBT’ (Johan Cruijff; voetballer en artiest) Onlangs (mei …
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