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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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 …
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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each one of those elements of the mytheme-plex has been either dropped or revised by now. the whole superstructure of the thing in my present iteration-of-self is unrecognizable to what it was 15 years ago. maybe some rough isomorphisms but generally it's a different thing.
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