“Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.”
–Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology, page 4
“Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.”
–Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology, page 4
“But for those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into a supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality. The cosmos in its entirety can become a hierophany.”
— Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, page 12
“Myths, or mythic moves, open spaces. Rational accounts limit them. This is necessary. Both are necessary.”
– Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel, p 9
“Reason and understanding must unite with unreason and magic.”
– Claire Dunne, “Carl Jung’s Red Book,” Parabola, 35:2
“Image-making is a via regia, a royal road to soul-making. The making of soul-stuff calls for dreaming, fantasying, imagining. To live psychologically means to imagine things…”
– James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology, p 23