Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of BeliefRoutledge, 11 sep. 2002 - 564 sidor Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps ofMeaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind. |
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... aspect of such atrocity did not lie in its impossibility or remoteness , as I had naively assumed , but in its ease . I was not much different from the violent prison- ers not qualitatively different . I could do what they could do ...
... aspect of life might actually be a necessary precondition for the existence of life — and that it is possible to regard that precondition , in consequence , as comprehensible and acceptable . I hope that I can bring those who read this ...
... aspect of the sun's substance is attributed negative , demonic characteristics . It was the great feat of science to strip affect from perception , so to speak , and to allow for the description of experiences purely in terms of their ...
... aspect of the actual individual behavior and basic values of the typical Westerner even if he is atheistic and well - educated , even if his abstract notions and utterances appear iconoclastic . He neither kills nor steals ( or if he ...
... aspect of the object . The painstaking empirical process of identification , communication and comparison has proved to be a strikingly effective means for specifying the nature of the relatively invariant features of the collectively ...
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The Birth of the World Parents | 145 |
The Constituent Elements of the World in Dynamic Relationship | 146 |
Novelty the Great Mother as Daughter of the Uroboros | 155 |
The Spontaneous Personification of Unexplored Territory | 158 |
Unexplored Territory as Destructive Mother | 162 |
Unexplored Territory as Creative Mother | 168 |
The Heavenly Genealogy of the Destructive and Creative Mothers | 170 |
The Exploratory Hero as Son of the Heavenly Mother | 182 |
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The Motor Homunculus | 63 |
The Twin Cerebral Hemispheres and Their Functions | 68 |
The Multiple Structure of Memory | 74 |
Abstraction of Wisdom and the Relationship of Such Abstraction to Memory | 80 |
Conceptual Transformation of the MeansEnds Relationship from | 83 |
Static to Dynamic | 84 |
Bounded Revolution | 86 |
Nested Stories Processes of Generation and Multiple Memory Systems | 89 |
The Constituent Elements of Experience | 106 |
The Positive Constituent Elements of Experience Personified | 107 |
The Birth of the World of Gods | 112 |
The Death of Apsu and the ReEmergence of Tiamat as Threat | 116 |
Hierarchical Organization | 120 |
The Enuma elish in Schematic Representation | 124 |
The Battle Between Osiris and Seth in the Domain of Order | 129 |
The Involuntary Descent and Disintegration of Osiris | 130 |
The Birth and Return of Horus Divine Son of Order and Chaos | 131 |
Voluntary Encounter with the Underworld | 132 |
Ascent and Reintegration of the Father | 133 |
The Constituent Elements of Experience as Personality Territory and Process | 136 |
The UroborosPrecosmogonic Dragon of Chaos | 141 |
The Metamythology of the Way Revisited | 183 |
St George and the Dragon | 184 |
The Process of Exploration and Update as the MetaGoal of Existence | 186 |
Order the Great Father as Son of the Uroboros | 208 |
Explored Territory as Orderly Protective Father | 209 |
Explored Territory as Tyrannical Father | 212 |
The Heavenly Genealogy of the Tyrannical and Protective Fathers | 213 |
The Exploratory Hero as Son of the Great Father | 214 |
Adoption of a Shared | 216 |
The Death and Rebirth of the Adolescent Initiate | 224 |
Challenge to the Shared | 233 |
The Paradigmatic Structure of the Known | 242 |
Nested Groups and Individuals | 243 |
The Fragmentary Representation of Procedure and Custom in Image and Word | 252 |
The Dual Death of the Revolutionary Hero | 273 |
The Crucified Redeemer as Dragon of Chaos and Transformation | 280 |
The Socially Destructive and Redemptive Journey of the Revolutionary Hero | 281 |
The Rise of SelfReference and the Permanent Contamination of Anomaly with Death | 283 |
Archetypes of Response to the Unknown | 307 |
Notes | 471 |
References | 503 |
Permissions | 513 |