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myths and mythologies celebrate in the presence of a happy renaissance. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Eragon, King Arthur, Atlantis are obvious examples of the unfulfilled longing of man for a re-enchantment of the world by ancient and modern myths and fairy tales.

more astonishing, it seems to mind that are technically demanding books that illuminate the background of mythologies extremely rare. With the work "rise to the myth" of the famous writer and anthroposophical Waldorf teachers Lorenzo Ravagli finally joins the previously painful gap.

with high intellectual rigor in the 200-page- Publication, the mythological pillars on which rests our postmodern culture is shown. It stretches of this vast literary work sheets, which lures the reader into the world of history and stories, and built him one time with exciting stories and confronted the other with sharp-analysis of civilization crises.

By the way is thereby set the striking conclusion that the results of the great myths of researchers such as Jean Gebser and Mircea Eliade and the spiritual research of Rudolf Steiner can come harmoniously on this issue by clever change of perspective to cover.

The focus of the study are at Ravagli in exemplary fashion the fascinating mythology the Navajo Indians of the North American Canyon Country. At the impressive description of her worldview matures in the reader an increasingly frightening certainty: the foundations of our Western culture, our modern notion of space and time of creation and the workings of the divine is as narrow and impoverished view. As a miserable ruinous remains of a formerly grandiose spiritual "world's Cathedral" seems to our current mechanistic understanding of the world.

A renewed and justified respect for the religion and culture of ancient peoples, in particular to develop here the Navajo, but only one side of the merit of the author. The special allowance is rather to have been an accurate description of how the consciousness of people throughout human history in specific steps more and more sophisticated: from the archaic, through the magical, mythical up to the present mental-rational consciousness. The next stage, the integral consciousness, according to the author, but can only be achieved if design is built at the level of myth. At this point Ravagli shows in an explicit manner, what we "of the so-called primitive peoples, which are still occasionally referred to as" primitive cultures "for his own good to learn.

In a time of anthroposophy in gross Racist way of thinking is accused are sensitive, positive and profound depictions of the mythical Lorenzo Ravagli cultures (in this case the Indians) a "mental time" for an anti-racist and tolerant discussion of foreign nations.

But actually it's the author claims to far more. For
Ravagli sees humanity openly in a global abyss arrived. Enormous economic, social and ecological disasters are part of the signature of Western apocalyptic humanity. The reasons the author believes that the modern unspiritual, one might almost say "distant mythology" awareness, primarily by fear and greed is marked.

calls with pithy formulas of the author to the reader in the preface, that the only way out of this global dilemma is the development of a new consciousness of the living earth. In short, the man must be as he says, rising to a mythogenen consciousness, "a vicious circle of mutually reinforcing fear and greed and the ever-futile attempts to conceal the resulting existential torment by presenting to us, our rationality have everything under control and will overcome all problems, we can liberate ourselves only if we choose, that reality restored to our consciousness and life, tells the myth. The new consciousness, spoken of anthroposophy, which is the insight into the relationship of all life on earth, and the shared responsibility of bringing all this life and the practice of life, some of whom have still preserves on earth existing mythogene communities include over thousands of years together. "

Ravaglis new book is written as a rich educational and scientific polemic as a necessary new consciousness. Unfortunate in this work is unique and alone, that it will probably reach especially those readers who make friends with the Ravaglis sophisticated spelling and admirable abstraction.
It deserves a large to find readers, for our time needs more than ever, a re-enchantment through the myths and at the same time, "a guide for the" rise of a myth.

Lorenzo Ravagli: rise to the myth: a way to heal the soul in an apocalyptic time

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A new light in the sky of thought appears in the form Spuras Martin, who with his brilliant debut The victim refused of Prometheus, a groundbreaking contribution to the interpretation of mythical images of thought and intellectual history of the West does.

Spura is making in his book nothing less than a reconstruction of the crossroads and breaks in the development of consciousness of the West, which opens in a clear, formulated philosophical perspective, like the present humanity can get out of the impasses in which it has fallen by this development. Central to his investigation, which borrowed as much to the conceptual language of Heidegger as the thought forms of anthroposophy, a philosophical meditation is about the nature of sacrifice and myth. Spura developed a completely new shape - like new in comparison with the approaches of other mythographers 20th Century - the myth to think, which is neither symbolic nor naturalistic, but simply spiritual. The myth is an image of the real story. This story is primarily spiritual and consciousness story. The images of myth, whose meaning he entbirgt describe this very spirit and history of consciousness and embrace a period of millennia. They reach far back in time without writing and have the same degree imminent future of humanity. They relate as much our present. They contain not only information about the history of humanity as a collective, but also descriptions of mental processes that took place in each individual and still play.

is not only the myth thus receives a whole new meaning - which in truth only his forgotten is old, eternal - but also the revealed religions, especially Christianity, which can be thought of as a necessary consequence of the developments described by the myth. The truth of Christianity can be thought , as well as the truth of the myth. They are not mutually opposed. They are also not opposed to philosophy. Rather, the philosophy is to turn its back end to the myth, in order to have it a revival. What the geniuses of the German Frühidealismus have formulated a program will be redeemed by Spura possible in a broad sense, that philosophy must be re-mythology, while retaining the clarity of the concept and the rational form.

All of Spura studied myths describe the relations of men to the gods and the changes of these relations. The emergence of the rational mind, philosophy and science two and a half millennia is the result of actions of the gods, who initiated those enormous change in the consciousness of Western man, by which they were drowned himself: by which they vanished gradually from the consciousness of humanity, to live on in the unconscious depths of human souls. Not only in the Greek myth goes Spura the certificates of these upheavals, but also in Germanic. The story of Prometheus, the fate of Tantalus, the Demeter and Persephone, of Apollo and Dionysus, the Edda, the Nibelungen, Beowulf and Parzival make each of different points of the same operations or specific aspects of these processes dar. Prometheus brought the humanity that the light of consciousness and Sciences and entbarg in this way beings, he covered both the gods - the being - from the people. In the figures of Dionysus and Apollo, in the fortunes of Demeter and Persephone, of Orestes and Iphigenia was preparing to overcome before the awareness of these historical episodes Prometheustat. The captive in the Caucasus and the hope of the Pandora experience a new and profound light. The fate of Baldur and tell the tales of the twilight of the gods, albeit from a different perspective, from the advent of the rational, conceptual view of the world and the possibilities of overcoming them.

testified in a very different kind of Job, the relationship of man to God. His assurance of salvation and his confidence that his redeemer lives, represent a major step in the development of knowledge of the people of God and of himself dar. appears in it from the history of Judaism, a burgeoning relationship of humanity to the wisdom, to Sophia, which can only develop in the coming year with the involvement of thousands of real historical consequences of the Incarnation.

The alchemy of the Middle Ages and the "Aurora Consurgens of Thomas' Aquinas Spura obtained by a unique depth of interpretation, which is proving its relevance to the present, finally, the Rosicrucian mystery and the Isis-Osiris-Horus myth, which is reflected in the immediate present.

The impending transformation of Western consciousness is to win but not without a confrontation with evil. In many forms of the myth speaks of the evil that prevails in the deep layers of being and the human soul, and in modern times, especially in the presence of a new phenomenon takes shape. With impressive precision and clarity Spura characterizes the configurations of this man- created evil in the end are united international scientific rationality and the sham real structures of a second nature, which becomes detached from their producers in the technomorphic layers of existence. What in the realms of technical artifacts in the cyber world and the global information systems is taking shape is a specifically modern manifestation of evil that threatens the people in their being. While the man in the image of the divine archetype, the potential inside her, by returning to the divine wisdom and love, the gap between itself and its origin to overcome, tears in the "images of images of a new ontological shift" going on by humans, which threatens to drag him with her into an abyss of illusion and death, from which there is no escape. Spura offers in his analysis, a myth fed by the philosophy of technology, which relates to Heidegger, but far extends beyond it. This is also the place where he dealt with the temptations and aberrations Sloterdijk and his praise of self-modeling technomorphic of man.

out the future path of the West through the redemption of evil. Only the integration of the shadow figures that have emerged out of a man whose transformation through love, will also deliver the forged in the Caucasus Western intellect. The ratio must be life-destroying love to be redeemed, the powers of the heart must be included in the intellect, the thinking has to verchristlichen when the threat of Apocalypse is to be averted. Finally, throw

Spuras analysis, a completely new light on the greatest crimes of the 20th Century, the Holocaust, the Nazis and communism. Impressively, he argues that the deeper will of Nazism and communism, the totalitarian will, which alienated the people being and propels him into the sacrifice of others, is by no means overcome. The dehumanizing political religions of the 20th Century, which brought hecatombs victim to self to get in power, from the oblivion of being and the denial emerged of self-sacrifice, they continue to dominate in metamorphosed form the companies that allegedly emerged from overcoming them. Economism, consumerism and technocracy, which have taken the place of the totalitarian systems are based, and also to the oblivion of being and the denial of self-sacrifice as that. The danger that threatens us is, however, much harder to detect because it is obscured by illusions. In the re-emergence of eugenics and medical practice of selection is becoming apparent that the repressed and seemingly vanquished returns.

Humanity stands at a crossroads. Either way it sets the continued refusal of the victim, or it is able to align themselves with the models, a different kind of myth. He tells of the search for the divine Sophia, the love that redeems the evil. He tells of the voluntary adoption and transformation of the shadow of the death and resurrection, which can result from the abandonment of the already fleeting. He tells of how the fire of the heart saved the intellect of the people and the gods themselves alienated. The myth will be considered. He is not a vanquished stage of development, but the continued flowing source of being, from which we draw our life. He is concerned, it can us not fall back into a world of the irrational, but just keep us from such a relapse, which is that we succumb to the unexposed myths of rationalism. This promises us the Promethean light of knowledge, without the redeeming and reconciling love of Persephone. He wants us to believe in this light alone lies our salvation. That is not true, this already shows the fate of Tantalus.

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"A return to the myth may well be appropriate"

Paul Feyerabend's "natural philosophy"

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Paul Feyerabend, a leading philosopher of science of the 20th Century, deals in his posthumous fragment of a natural philosophy with the relationship between myth and logos. This relationship is "one of the great themes of the philosophy of the twentieth century and the present. It is by no means been settled that the transition from the 'mythical \u0026lt;to> logical \u0026lt;written level of consciousness, as reflected in the Greece of the 7th to 5 century BC, occurred actually happened. "(Timo Kölling Leopold Ziegler, a key figure within the thinking of Ernst Juenger and Friedrich Georg Jünger ).

Similar Steiner in 1895 in his book, Goethe's belief , Feyerabend sees in the philosophy of Parmenides the beginning of a centuries-long odyssey of Western thought. "A true odyssey must pass through the mind, a long chain of errors, before it again approaches the real world and recognize the traits in her, have described the creation and development of myths, once so lively. The odyssey begins with Parmenides ... Parmenides is the man of steady and purely descriptive rather than conceptually formulated laws Sequences of events and uses the so-reality and world experience, thought and perception, knowledge, and act decisively separated from each other ... Him the science of faith owes an eternal laws and the axiomatic representation, which is now regarded as the general basis of understanding "Not much different from Steiner wrote in 1895:". In a fateful moment in a Greek thinker from a motion seized in the human sense organs. He began to believe that these institutions to the people the truth about supply, but that they deceive him ... It will be hard to tell in which his head firmly sat down this mistrust first. We met him in the Eleatic school of philosophy ... As the most important figure of this school appears Parmenides. For he has learned with a focus like no one before him that there are two sources of human knowledge. He explained that the impressions of the senses are lying and deception, and that man come to understand the true only by pure thought, referring to the experience no consideration could. By the way this view appears on the thinking and sensory experience in Parmenides, had many subsequent philosophies instilled a developing illness from which the Postdoctoral education today. Suffers "

Parmenides turned away, according to Feyerabend, the mythical world view that even in Hesiod Cosmogony be seen. In this world view are not only the animal and plant kingdom, but also the people and the cosmos terms of evolution, which nothing escapes. Space, time and material change with the laws which they determine creative transformations are commonplace. Each part of the world has a story that explains its own structure, developmental series combine the living and inanimate, scattered and overall lead of cosmic disasters stages of sleep, in which hold enormous forces disrupting the balance to other disasters, caused by a fault the equilibrium state. "Train to train," so Feyerabend, "repeated the modern Cosmogony and cosmology ... the general principles of the ancient mythical theories, and even the modern theory of catastrophes and in between finds balance lying in the story of the titanic struggle and the taming ... the Titans by a mighty God ... a mythological analogy. "Even the animation of the world, the existence of creative power in the non-living matter, the subject always in continuous flow of new forms in this world, a basic understanding of the myth," is now recognized finally as a right. "

This idea of implicit knowledge of myth, to which the scientific development leads to long detours first finds, are also at Steiner. In 1906, he remarked in a lecture: "The real myths come from the insiders as the creation ... And they turn to the myths, they have their terms by, today's science. In science they confront the same truths - the truths of evolution contained in the myths. Therefore, the remarkable consistency of the development concept is understood more deeply with the most ancient teachings of mankind. (GA 96, p. 137, 1906)

The parallels could still pursue, such as when comparing the views of Aristotle by both authors, who would preserve the Western philosophy, according to Steiner before Parmenides Errors can and took from the perspective of Feyerabend's the "grand experiment" to build a cosmology, "which all hold very close to the view that the arguments of Parmenides is just, and yet rich enough to the many new facts" research record in itself. Similar is the interpretation of Bacon by the two thinkers.

Only in the course of the 20th Century, so Feyerabend, one has again seen, "has the idea of an immutable law or of an absolutely stable element only approximate validity, that the basic form of matter is the movement that this movement encompasses all areas of life, Revitalized connects with inanimate, and that the universe as a whole with all its laws it is subject. All these ideas are expressed in Hesiod will not be surpassed clarity "This view of the abysmal dynamic structure of reality, Steiner brought in connection with Goethe in 1890 expressed". The sensible world is the sum of the metamorphosierender perceptual content without an underlying matter ". (Read about it in his introductions to Goethe's scientific writings ).

a clear plea contains incommensurate Feyerabend's study to the recognition of the mathematical and rational interpretation of the world, but none the less original Form of reality experience of the mythical consciousness, "swarming of the world, intervention of the gods, 'openness' of mental life are not the prejudices or errors or results of a superficial approach, they are clearly identifiable parts of the world experience and their elimination is the removal of important knowledge. "The world, Feyerabend," appears to these early thinkers really as a 'you' and not as an 'It', the sky is \u0026lt; a 'picture book and not' a 'arithmetic book, every phenomenon described is> \u0026lt;present > is perceived, "and treated accordingly."

The fragment ends with a visionary outlook. In the presence of a new natural philosophy and science in the making. In it, the means of scientific research to facilitate a process used to "man and nature to a higher, but not totlitären unit merges. In this process, man loses his freedom or even that level of knowledge he needs to address its problems in an ever changing social and natural environment. Yet even he wins this knowledge to the exclusion of broad areas of his humanity and rape of nature that surrounds him. Sympathy with this natural, intuitive understanding of the manifold Life they contain, full development of self are essential parts of the new philosophical and mythological science, that we now only dimly on the horizon. "

What envision the philosophers of science here is nothing other than that the form of a spiritualized science Anthroposophy seeks: a synthesis of logos and myth merge in subjectivity and objectivity, image and concept, life and reflection to a new higher unity.

Literature:
Paul Feyerabend, natural philosophy
Timo Kölling, Leopold Ziegler: A key figure within the thinking of Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger
Lorenzo Ravagli, rise to the myth: a way to heal the soul in an apocalyptic time

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