2007-09-12 20:04:45 · 6 answers · asked by Ms Informed 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Myth does not define reality, but it is a way of approach to one level of reality. It can help to understand reality, but it can also avoid that, by becoming too important in one's self awareness.
I think "The Reality" does not exist as such, as an absolute value to touch or not to touch. Reality consists of a multitude of layers, through which we travel with our consciousness, discovering opposing and complementary interrelations between these layers. Some layers are conditioned by time and/or space, some are timeless and spaceless. Some are connected to the origin of being and some to the disappearance of it.
Myths appear in us or we adapt them, to orient in this universe, and almost everyone uses them. We link myths to our love affairs, to our birth and death, to our spiritual life and to many universal aspects.
But no one should disrespect the myths of some one , because he has left a certain myth behind himself. The degree of being attached to myths is not a sign for a degree of understanding reality. Some myths are based on reality, but sometimes another person would not be able to see that reality through that particular myth. This is bound to culture, to self understanding, education and life experience.
I personally love myths, because i am an artist. All artists lead mythical lives. Because they travel more consciously between these layers of reality, experiment with them, express the interrelations between them, sometimes intervene in these layers.
2007-09-13 05:56:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Myth itself does not define reality,The reality is defined by we who interprete the myth.
2007-09-13 03:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by William 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On someone's level of understanding, I'm certain that it does. Just as children believe fairy tales and Santa Claus, myths are reality for many who believe in them. Until they learn otherwise, everyone's reality is what they believe even if you know it as a common myth.
2007-09-13 06:37:24 · answer #3 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reality would be irrelevant for its being real if there were to be no myth at all anywhere at any time.
2007-09-13 03:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is myth, reality or illusion just a perception.
2007-09-13 03:28:15 · answer #5 · answered by The More I learn The More I'm Uneducated 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Rather it tries to describe and give a purpose to the apparent diversity and underlying unity we experience in our contact with reality.
2007-09-13 03:57:16 · answer #6 · answered by Aken 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋