Today-Jun 19 2009 I listened to the lecture, taking notes, and then went for the second run of the week (in steel toe boots) of about 2 mi. I feel good. Here are my results form the first lecture entitled The heros adventure.The lecture can be found here http://johnphelan.com/lib…_the_heros_adventure.mp3
Joseph died in 1987 and believed that everything begins with a story…
Joseph did not have an ideology; the word means:
1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, as that of fascism, along with the devices for putting it into operation.
3. Philosophy.
a. the study of the nature and origin of ideas.
b. a system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation.
4. theorizing of a visionary or impractical nature.
Joseph also had no theology; the word means:
1. the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God’s attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
2. a particular form, system, branch, or course of this study.
The path to the dark side is one of giving into the intellectual side, and living by a system. The brain must submit to the humanity of the body. When the consciousness of the brain does not submit one turns to the dark side.
Myth and Hero’s (and religion) are a function of the threshold of communication. That is to say, the only way we have to communicate the uncommunicable, ( the great mystery of life) is through myth, hero’s and religion.
The mythical dragon represents the EGO cage we created for our selfs. We must slay this dragon to gain a larger field of relationships.
EGO : is what I want, what I think I love, what I believe, what I can do ( which may be to small ). EGO is that which pins us down. The EGO is is the dragon, the dragon is blocking you in.
The new myth symbol should be that of the earth… Something that includes all people and life.
David Pierce
