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  1. Aug 2023
  2. Jan 2022
    1. B6: MYTH IS HALF WAY BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION

      • 3 distinct terms for the concept of a narrative
      1. to tell a story
      2. to tell a lie
      3. to mythologize
      • stories are exaggerated or lose some truth to them as they get passed along
      • myth is the collective dream world or collective subconscious
      • the stories that we are told and accept as truth
      • the halfway point of science and religion, most elaborate of all fictions
    2. B6: ARE WE HEALING?

      • people rediscovering gender

        "lives of communities into their own hands, into their own healing hands"

      • science, religion has not been able to explain "the life force of human origins"

      • Mythology: language that had to be invented to explain " the dream world( where we exists)
    3. B6: ABORIGINAL MYTHOLOGY

      • process of procreation dependent on feminine force of energy
      • the Trickster: half human and half god
      • the difference: concepts or divination does not translate to English
      1. no concept of gender, all are she/he
      • god is male and female simultaneously, we are all he/she
      1. god is not perfect
      • the concept of god in all and god in everything
      • pantheism: all things have divinity because it has god
      1. not time
      • existence in the universe i merely one endless circle of birth and life and death and a cycle
      1. paradise?
    4. B6: MYTHOLOGY DEFINES, MAPS OUT THE COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS, THE DREAM WORLD OF OUR PEOPLE, THE SPIRIT, SPRITUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

      • life would have no meaning
      • myth is the "driving force that decides whether nature or our bodies..."
      • kind of relate to "ku"
      • its can be good or bad and it is everything
    5. B6: WHAT IS MYTHOLOGY?

      • tells the story fo the spiritual movements across the landscape
      • outlines and delineates the spiritual nervous system - wondrous, mystical magical complexity
      • myth = narrative
      • logos = word or discourse
      • the art of story telling, narrative of humans, animals, and god(s)
      • antithesis of theology
    6. What is mythology?

      • roots, consciousness of people
      • tool to articulate life, where origins lie
      • electrical impulse that sparks life into people
      • we would be dead( empty, corpses), no point
    7. "lost so many children to death and residential schoo in The Pas" ( 92).

      • reminds me of the unmarked graves found in Canada. An indigenous nation in Canada says it has found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan. It comes weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at a similar residential school in British Columbia.
      • What are residential schools?
      • Between 1863 and 1998, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools throughout Canada.
      • The children were often not allowed to speak their language or to practice their culture, and many were mistreated and abused.

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