{"id":14529,"date":"2021-07-06T23:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=14529"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:11:25","slug":"participation-in-the-world-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=14529","title":{"rendered":"Participation in the World Process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Saving the Appearances<\/em>, Owen Barfield<\/strong> demonstrates how the world is represented in consciousness and, moreover, how those representations alter over time. If the collective consciousness of the first men can be described as an innocence — which was destroyed through our dualist thinking — then the ultimate goal is to achieve a second innocence, or what Paul Ricoeur called a second na\u00efvet\u00e9. Barfield uses the terms \u201coriginal participation\u201d and \u201cfinal participation\u201d. Mircea, calling it \u201carchaic consciousness\u201d, describes it this way:<\/p>\n

In imitating<\/em>\u00a0the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythical hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. ~\u00a0Myths, Dreams and Mysteries<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the modern man, unable to take such myths at face value, does so in a different manor from the primitive man. Paul Ricoeur<\/strong> calls this re-enactment the second na\u00efvet\u00e9. In any case, knowledge of sensory space-time events can never be more than a matter of opinion (doxa<\/em>). Hence, sacred time refers to events in consciousness.\u00a0Hans Leisegang<\/strong>\u00a0makes this clear:<\/p>\n

Every myth expresses, in a form narrated for a particular case, an eternal idea, which will be intuitively recognised by him who re-experiences the content of the myth. ~ Die Gnosis<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Valentin Tomberg\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0Meditations on the Tarot<\/em>\u00a0points out the relationship between myths and archetypes:<\/p>\n

myths reveal the archetypes which manifest themselves endlessly in history and in each individual biography — they are mythological symbols pertaining to the domain of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Starting Point<\/h2>\n

Barfield, too, wants to breathe life into those ancient myths, which have mostly become \u201cdead letters\u201d or mere verbal formulations to consent to. Barfield starts by calling attention to two misconceptions about our consciousness of the world: First an omission and then an assumption.<\/p>\n