Modern day Mysticism

This is one of my quickie posts, just because I'm excited about something.

I just discovered an author who expounds on Jung's metaphysics. That's exciting enough, but then I realized he's a philosopher and has a strong mystical bent (like myself, Jung, Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pageau etc)—meaning he believes not in the prevailing Materialist philosophy that places science and rationalism at the forefront of everything, but rather (as Jung and I do) that Story—in particular Myth and Religion—are the most important things, from which all meaning arises. * (see first comment below)

That's not to say I believe the material world isn't real—of course it absolutely is—but rather that Psyche is the primary thing for us, that we invest matter with meaning, that gods and mythical creatures are very real (in the inner world of psyche) and not merely silly superstitious mumbo-jumbo. They're real (and primordially important) in the sense that they represent archetypes, inner patterns of thought and emotion that guide us and show themselves in our dreams and fantasies and imagination. This means ancient religions and myths aren't pointless or ridiculous, they're in their own way as important as science—more so in some ways, since science has nothning to do with morality or how to live life as a human being surrounded by temptations. That's what the religions and myths are about. They function through metaphor, the language of the right hemisphere (the dreaming mind), something many of us are in danger of losing touch with in this over-rational science-dominated world.

Enough of my jibber-jabber! Here are two books I just bought for the Kindle, and I'll doubtless be getting more by this brilliant mind:


Decoding Jung's Metaphysics by Bernardo Kastrup


More Than Allegory by Bernardo Kastrup

Check the Look Inside to see of what he speaks with such eloquence.