Toys For Children or Supernormal Sign Stimuli: A Philosophy of Mythology

David Drumm, Attorney, B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, University of Texas, 1977, Licensed Unity Teacher.

Our Greek intellectual heritage provides us with the two contrasting concepts of Logos - the world of logical, discursive, rational analysis - and Mythos - the world of creative, poetic, playful imagery. What, properly understood, is the relationship between the two? To many, the relationship is explained simply as the inexorable process of the more mature, highly evolved Logos gradually replacing and superseding the more primitive and childish Mythos. An alternative viewpoint is presented by a group of twentieth century thinkers led by Joseph Campbell, and including Leo Frobenius, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, and supported by surprising advances in the study of archaeology, anthropology, and animal behavior. The roots of this line of development can be further traced back to the philosophies of Friedrich Schelling and others of the romantic post-Kantian German tradition. This talk will present he essential elements and developmental history of that alternative theory.

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