A Working Mythos for Modern Times

A working mythos for modern times looks something like -

Yes there is tons of evil in the world, yes it’s more apparent than ever, but this moment in history is an expression of the initiation of humanity through it.

In order for humanity to gain wisdom and truly individuate, we need to fully and consciously traverse the world of duality. In traversing this world that is contained of both the polarities of good and evil, we embrace the necessary wisdom required to truly evolve. In light of this, we do not have to succumb to negativity all the time because we can see the big picture that both polarities are necessary for humanity’s evolution.

This does not mean however, that we pretend to be non-dual and refuse to take a side. It just means we each understand our individual role within the duality, while keeping our eye on the big picture.

With this kind of working integrated mythos one will not fall into nihilism or spiral into subjective existential doom for too long. Nor will we try to pretend to be ‘holier-than-thou’ and above it all as a disguise for deep denial.

We’re in a great collective purging. A global dark night of the soul. Things aren’t getting worse, they’re getting uncovered. Our job is to keep our gaze steady as the horrors make themselves known. Keep ourselves rooted in our eternal nature, trusting that the grand Universal Intelligence is all encompassing. Be aware, but do not give too much power away to these devils and demons. Expand enough to hold both polarities.

Being non-dual has nothing to do with bypassing the existence of duality, but with being expanded enough to hold both polarities and still understand your role within them.

Being non-dual has nothing to do with some homogenized, “we’re all one”, utopia in which our boundaries become all mushy gooshy, but it does have to do with recognizing that it is our own shadow to some degree making itself known in the world, just as much as it is these villains doing the evil in the world. If our shadow had nothing to do with it, we simply would not be witnessing it at all.

The whole world is a great mirror for each and every one of us as we are in a time of deep revealing, shedding light upon a great collective darkness of which each of us has some sort of personal reflection to reckon with. So that we rise up to face this great initiation and embrace our Soul’s evolution.

As far as modern myths go, there seems to be a big intersection between those that believe that earth is a fallen world and those that understand earth as a divine manifestation of the divine feminine.

I think this could be the difference between having an outlook of bleak, black-pilled nihilism, rather than a more encouraging mythos that encompasses both polarities as well as humanity’s role within them.

There is this huge deception going on that was somewhat perpetuated by the misunderstanding of the so called, “fall”, in the Bible. This was an allegory that many have not penetrated into properly to understand its true esoteric insight.

It looks to me like current misconceptions about earth’s divinity or lack thereof, through examples like simulation theory, or the idea that earth is some kind of prison planet, actually at least partly originates from the idea that we are in a mistaken fallen world of some sort, rather than an intentional, essentially spiritualized, divine creation.

Could the misinterpretations of the fall in the the Bible be at least partially responsible for this? I know we can also look to the Gnostics and the myth of Sophia’s big mistake - in creating this world of separation as part of this current misconception.

In both myths the feminine is blamed for what is deemed to be a disconnected, mistaken, fallen world.

Perhaps there is a more integrated interpretation of things that leads to a more encouraging mythos, than one of such fragmented negative resignation.

We could look at humanity’s evolution in this regard as an arc, not a fall. The descension aspect of the arc is necessary for the development of wisdom. We have to travel through separation from “God” to choose unity again. This has to be an act of free will. The materialization into a matter or form that SEEMS separate is just part of this evolutionary arc.

From an eastern philosophical perspective we can see that these cycles or arcs take place over vast epochs or ages - Yugas in which humanity descends and ascends again over and over. From this perspective earth becomes a sort of school, rather than a prison. Although it does become important to get off the wheel of karma at some point, rather than going round and round forever, we can see that there is a coherent collective evolutionary impulse within these cycles.

There is some truth to the idea of simulation theory in the notion that this reality has a somewhat illusory nature, in ancient Hindi tradition they call it the Maya. This does not mean however, that it is completely separate from divinity. Simulation theory takes an ancient teaching that was meant to inform us about our perception of separation in this realm, within the context of our divinity - our interconnectedness to a greater divinity, and turns it into a fragmented cold and lifeless half truth that threatens to disconnect us from our true nature.

We could now already be in the ascension aspect of this evolutionary arc. There is some disagreement on this in the Yogic world, with some very key teachers saying we are already in the Dwapara Yuga, that we have hit the turning point on earth from descension to ascension again. I tend to agree with this perspective, as even though it is a very dark time, it is also a time of revealing, where things previously hidden in the shadows are slowly coming to light. I’ve even seen Yogis refer to Christ’s life on earth as the marking of that turning point. From an eastern perspective this would mean that we are headed away from the darkest age, out of the Kali Yuga, into the Dwapara Yuga, back toward the golden age of the Satya Yuga.

Perhaps the fall is only half the story and earth is more of a cyclical world than a fallen one. Perhaps the serpent from the book of genesis in the story of the fall, is actually a symbolic representation of the development of the human nervous system, as the hardware required for us to fully experience the world of duality, evolve through the cycles of our collective evolutionary arc and develop the resulting wisdom necessary for our evolution.

If we look at our bodies as a basis for philosophy, we can see that the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” could actually represent the human nervous system in this regard.