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Jim's avatar

A medieval peasant child could detect symbolic language in a fairy tale communicating eternal meta patterns in life that today most adults can't comprehend.

Rapunzel - The Double Symbology of Hair - Pageau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdLAuZGmUSI

When modern man hears "myth" he thinks untrue, when myth is more than true, it's giving you a glimpse into the future if you recognize the patterns.

From a Christian perspective, I'm reading "Through New Eyes" by James B Jordan, and "A House for My Name" by Leithart, these get into what Jonathan Pageau's "Symbolic World" does for the Biblical symbolic worldview most modern Christians in the West have forgotten since the "Enlightenment," and for that reason often miss out on the enchanted worldview where the ancients were looking to the stars and realizing they were seeing a microcosm pattern of heaven, man being the microcosmic fulcrum where God united the heavens (intellectual) and the earth (body).

C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, and Tolkien were all trying to bring back this higher medieval understanding:

Lewis and Tolkien: G.K. Chesterton, Myth, and the Imagination - Ryan Reeves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McnaNqj_vA4

This on Dante's Paradiso brings to light the medieval enchanted cosmology:

Dante's Paradiso & The 9 Levels of Heaven Explained - Windigoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b__PdJegZTA

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When I read a book from the 18th century and then suddenly switch to any modern social media, it's like entering a mental asylum.

And it's even funnier when that asylum is trying to convince me that we are now at the peak of intelligence and knowledge because we know how to scroll TikTok videos on our smartphones.

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