Status: child revisit

Tags: spirituality beliefs mystory

Reading list to flesh out my own essay from the Condo

So what was your thesis? Storytelling + Myth as Psychology Penetrates as deeper learning for wisdom typically not earned in your life without guidance. Captures psychological outliers as well as principles.

It’s all within the grammar of symbolism. Divine symbols

Questions I still need to find answers to:

1. Literature on “The reason for spreading religion + creating it?” Is there something beyond the real belief? Why were people so encaptured by the beliefs? Was it Best Explanation at the time or deeper.
2. A linguists look into the spread of religion, how the language has changed over time out of necessity, did they run into any problems that required them to use storytelling and deep symbolism? How did we overcome translation errors and language evolution?

If one is studying psychological theory, it’s best to include mythological stories or religious teachings as background for spotting how we “knew”

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• Sapiens Collective fantasies play a huge role in social trust and teamwork, not just authoritative top-down governing

• Hero with a thousand faces Hero’s Journey Structure of mythological storytelling and symbolic grammar. (Totally different language nearly indecipherable as of now need immersion, can’t glance)

“and thus Man created God”

• The Lessons of History Historical stories are great to cite when talking about human psychology at mass. I suspect this is a great pick *Naval rec

Reference

Journal entry from summer 2023. I got into a mad dash of writing as I drew connections from the human experience, religion, and storytelling with a linguistic and “reason for religion” foundation

Learning: Bias, Belief, and the lense of Temperament On Rituals and Their Spiritual Lessons

Religion’s goal (It’s not just governance;atheist argument) The point of religion and loose draw of conclusions

Mythology, Storytelling Psychology: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Cambell