Myth Ritual & Reality: The Liberal Art

    Myth, Ritual,  and Reality
 
There are 2 origin myths in GENESIS.
(genetics, genealogy, genial, genital,
generalize  --all in the generation  family)
 
One is the Fall from Paradise,
disobedience (not listening, not hearing):
Adam, (“earth”) and Eve (“life”) and how
do they like them apples?
 
             
 
    The problem of “knowledge.”
 
And then the Tower of Babel said to
represent the problem of communication
and the genesis of so many languages.
 
Good-intentioned humanity builds  a tower
aimed at collapsing the gap, chasm, chaos
distinction between  “heaven” and “earth.”

And the whirl will be ONE, sings John
Lennon and who in his  right mind would
find that  a disaster?
 
Not on my watch, says God, knowing better.
and confounds our ability thank god  to
understand each other
 
   
 
      The problem of communication
 
You  know that the word MYTH stands for a
representation of  TRUTH as best we know it.;
 And RITUAL stands for the actions we observe
to try and do justice to our myths.
 
How-come-it-is that both those words carry  a
kind of primitive negative stigma—something
being only a myth (a falsehood)  and someone’s
rite and ritual  being maybe mere obsession
and compulsion?
 
Get REAL, damnit.
 
(And then, if you can,
Keep it Real, for
crying out loud.)
 
It’s not easy getting real,  let alone keeping it
real.  True?
 
Need we argue?
              Y
     
  
          X                                            Z  
 
Point (indicate, index, finger) where you think
 “the Real” is represented.
   
        (X & Z: taking care of business.
            Y = relationship)
 
   
 
        Point to the HARDNESS.
No, seriously.  Get REAL. Say where
 “the hardness” is located. Is it in the
rock? The hard place? The in-betweener?
Can you finger it? Hardness? Index?
Indicate? Scapegoat? .  . 

 Seriously.