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Interlude LXXVII: Myth | Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Narrative Architecture, Sacred Time, Consciousness, Identity, and the Stories Beneath Belief
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores myth as one of the deepest structures shaping human consciousness, identity, culture, memory, and meaning.
Before a person knows what they believe, they are already living inside stories.
Not only the stories they were told, but the stories they absorbed: stories about danger, virtue, suffering, destiny, exile, sacrifice, love, betrayal, punishment, redemption, family, history, and what a human life is supposed to become.
This episode examines myth not as falsehood, fantasy, or primitive explanation, but as meaning…
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