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“Cynicism and fundamentalism are the two sides of one coin. Both practice voluntary blindness toward transcendent truth: one by refusing to acknowledge that shadows convey valid insights about it, and the other by taking a shadow to be the sole and complete truth.”

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Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

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“All explanations are myths whose truth-value we assign subjectively. They are true only insofar as we say that they are true. They are stories we conjure up and tell ourselves in order to make sense of the disconnected, context-free phantasmagoria of present perception.”

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“Past and future are myths: stories in the mind.”

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Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

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“The present is an intangible moment squeezed in between a growing past and an approaching future. Therefore, perceptual truths are, at best, an inconceivably fleeting part of the experience of life. The bulk of life consists of internal myths.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

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“Out of the quasi-nothingness of the now somehow comes everything.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

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“[The present moment] is a singularity that births all existence into form. It seeds our mind with fleeting consensus images that we then blow up into the voluminous bulk of projected past and future. These projections are like a cognitive ‘big bang’ unfolding in our mind. They stretch out the intangibility of the singularity into the substantiality of events in time. But unlike the theoretical Big Bang of current physics, the cognitive ‘big bang’ isn’t an isolated occurrence in a far distant past. It happens now; now; now. It only ever happens now.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Existence only appears substantial because of our intellectual inferences, assumptions, confabulations and expectations. What is actually in front of our eyes now is incredibly elusive. The volume of our experiences - the bulk of life itself - is generated by our own internal myth-making. We conjure up substance and continuity out of sheer intangibility. We transmute quasi-emptiness into the solidity of existence through a trick of cognitive deception where we play both magician and audience. In reality, nothing ever really happens, for the scope of the present isn’t broad enough for any event to unfold objectively. That we think of life as a series of substantial happenings hanging from a historical timeline is a fantastic cognitive hallucination.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.”

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“The very foundations of truth are inherently subjective.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Through the fantastic trick of self-reference, our thoughts make the intangible phantasmagoria of present experience feel like a substantial external world unfolding across space and time.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Instead of contemplating our experiences in an open and self-reflective manner, trying to sense their symbolic meaning in a way analogous to how a therapist analyzes dreams, we continuously search for external references in a futile quest to determine their ‘validity.’ In doing so, we close ourselves up to reality and proceed to tirelessly chase our own tails. You see, there is nothing more to the world than experience itself. What meaning can there be in trying to determine the ‘validity’ of an experience?”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief