At first one would think that skepticism and mythology
are strange bedfellows, but when they are viewed in roles of complementation--
skepticism being the yang to mythology's yin-- then it can be seen
that together they are quite a force in revealing spiritual and psychological
truth. How the world is interpreted, including the ideas and doctrines
of mankind, is very important, needless to say. The key to interpretation
is quality of information. Modern scientific method seeks
quantity
of information, which reveals quality in the end. This certainly
is a long route to take, but it is the best path that mankind has found
thus far and is in close relation with the universal absolute of mathematics.
Skepticism's role comes into play when all data are collected on an object
or phenomenon and the quantity is weeded out for quality. Once the
quality is revealed it must be mythologically compared to other qualities
thus discovered in order for a common thread to be separated out.
At this point is truth.
Skepticism is the doctrine that all knowledge is
uncertain. Things are not to believed for what they seem until proven
with exhaustive evidence, and even then things must be constantly reevaluated
(re-valued or re-qualitated). All beliefs are not to be taken as
absolute. This is not a cynicism, pessimism or the like, but rather
it is a way to stay afloat in the ever-changing, chaotic, perpetual sea
of existence. It is a power to choose, or as Nietzsche put it, a
"will to power" that has been recognized by the human species only recently,
and it has been recognized in many different ways.
Mythological comparativism is able to bring these
many different ways, or manifestations, of truth recognition together.
These "archetypes," as Jung named them, are commonly shared by all thoughts
of mankind in the created symbols (art, language, music) that mankind uses
to express them to eachother. They can be grouped into categories
and patterns, and these metapatterns are then able to reveal truths with
more quality in return. A cycle of pattern isolation and recognition
is then to be seen and related back to the universe from whence it came.
Once this dynamic process or "monomyth," as
Campbell called it, is known and participated in, then mankind will be
able to use it to consciously and responsibly create the future.
This can be called simply the control of the present.
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