an operating mythology is a set of symbols and Metaphors used as structural components of thought. it's a good maintenance practice to change your operating mythology regularly, like rotating your tires. when was the last time you swapped out your operating mythology?
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Deliberately changing out 'operating mythology' sounds clunky, costly. Although, I've noticed shifts in the symbols which seem to work for me at different times. It took me a long time to work through prohibitive skepticism towards ritual stuff, so maybe I'm just a slow learner.
Took me a while to understand the 'language of symbol' & get any sense of how rituals work. Some of that had to do with letting go of the illusion of non-ritual practice; I suspect even the most 'non-ritual' practices are mostly just sneaky ritualhttps://twitter.com/misen__/status/1081478297249374209?s=20 …
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Question: can you give an example from your life of what you mean by changing mythology?
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sure. when I was a teenager (and into my early 20s) I was operating with the mytheme-plex of staunch atheistic materialism, American exceptionalism (a lefty/liberal variant though), logical positivism, and a number of attachments to particular works of popular culture.
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