"remember that a myth is a metaphor for something unknown at the conscious level.
there is an essential unity in both inanimate and animate nature.
One of the most interesting examples of this recursive meta-pattern at the very small living scale is the evolution of bacteria into mitochondria, the engines in our cells that produce energy.
This is an example of emergence in complex systems."
Richard Ott, Dinergy: the Primordial Meta Pattern in Nature.
" the computer has shown us is that complexity can emerge spontaneously from simple beginnings and simple recurring rules called algorithms.
Stephan Wolfram has a theory called computational equivalence:
the universe has evolved according to simple rules that recur over and over again, as if there were an order in the universe,
building up three-dimensional complexity in the way that a longrunning computer program with the right rule models two-dimensional complexity on computer paper."
"the God of Job and the God of Jesus
represent the pairs of opposites within the psyche.
They are manifestations of logos and eros, as well as the concepts of anima and animus.
Straight or gay or other, we fall in love with the unknown, the mystery that is unconscious within our psyche, and gender has nothing to do with it."
"Falling in love is evidence at a very deep personal level of this recurring pattern of dinergy within us and in all of nature.
Dinergy has evolved with infinite changes in the particulars but not in the general recursive meta-pattern.
Perhaps the universe is evolving towards the conscious reconciliation of logos and eros, anima and animus, through individuation,
as a return to the wholeness of nonduality.
the reconciliation of all opposites is still the best definition of the Self."
@holon42 consider my take on Freud's concepts of Id, Ego, and Super Ego. They end up being representative of the three divisions of the brain, the primitive rear brain, the mid brain, and the frontal cortex. Those three get into arguments like Bones, Kirk, and Spock every day.
so, then, taking it one
step further.
those 3 mythical characters were metaphors projected by our unconscious to illustrate the relationship among those bits of our psyches to us, showing the process of harmonizing.
the collective unconscious speaking to collective consciousness through art.
then,
interpretation 🔄 inividuation.
i do love your association between Freud and Star Trek. the original series was a doorway for me as a teen. the mythological references brought the significance alive.
"One of the most fascinating discoveries about the brain is that our two hemispheres normally function as complementary opposites through the corpus callosum.
However, if the corpus callosum is divided, that third connecting principle is lost and the hemispheres can actually demonstrate competing interests."