Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
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Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.
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"Maps of Meaning : ..." is a tremendous book. It links myths, stories, abstract ideas, and more concrete, empirical observations and conclusions together to explain the Process by which Reality in the minds of societies becomes to be; it explains the Process by which current "Reality" can be changed and regenerated. It explores the source(s) of Intelligence. It finds common elements in all life that might help explain an overall Theme in Creation, common nature; Perhaps the Nature of "Belief" itself.
"Maps of Meaning" is very detailed, thorough, "linguistic" (lot of big words !).
But if one takes the time to study it, as well as read it, one finds out it explores the deepest levels of the human consciousness & unconsciousness. (Not to belittle the Mediator that bridges those two things!)
The line of attack in tracking down the source of human intelligence is alone worthwhile. [Biology, Soul, Experience, Environment, God, The Unknown are all possible Sources of Intelligence-I think each contributes!]
