Book description
In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and female forms of power.
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I read this book almost 40 years ago, and it made me want to write about angels as a form of consciousness. When I think of all the creation mythology of world religions, I realize that every religion tells us we began in God's mind as God's consciousness and that God told his angels, “Look, we have made man. We have made him one of us.”
Thompson raises so many questions, and rather than answering them, he continues to raise more questions. This book is a classic among those like me who study symbology, creativity, the power of the mind,…
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