Stephen F. Stine

“These myths weren’t thought through deliberately, but sensed. Their intricacies weren’t composed through steps of reasoning, but arose spontaneously from attempts to describe the underlying structure of reality, which their originators could intuitively apprehend. This explains how cultures with limited intellectual development could produce such astoundingly refined cosmologies. It also explains how these various cosmologies ended up being so mutually consistent: after all, we all share the same reality that the myths attempt to describe. In a nutshell, despite the radically different geographical, historical and cultural contexts of different traditional peoples, they were intuitively ‘looking at,’ and trying to describe, the same phenomenon. In arguing this, I am largely echoing Jung’s views, which were extensively substantiated in his own work and those of others after him.58 The conclusion here is inescapable: to restore meaning to our lives, we must develop a close relationship with the transcendent truths symbolically unveiled by the obfuscated mind in the form of religious myths.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief