@Agent888488 Patrick Harpur: "The world you see is the myth you are in.” And Ilhan Berk: "I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity." The New World Creation Myth, then. x.com/permachristians/status/1902681388249489461
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I began with the name of Dionysus; let me be permitted to end with the name of Christ: for the power I seek is also Christian. Nietzsche indeed said the whole question was Dionysus versus Christ; but only the fool will take these as mutually exclusive opposites. There is a Dionysian Christianity, an apocalyptic Christianity, a Christianity of miracles and revelations. And there have always been some Christians for whom the age of miracle and revelation is not over; Christians who claim the spirit; enthusiasts. The power I look for is the power of enthusiasm: as… Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind; Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis, Norman Brown, University of California Press, 1991