When some years ago, I expressed in "Mythopoetics" my rejection of the concept of "Das Heilige" (The Sacred) as a useful concept to express the specific context that defines mythology in relation to religion and metaphysics, it was not so much a rejection to the "Mysterium stupendum et tremendum" that gives fundamental content to "Das Heilige" as a rejection to the rational use that metaphysics has made of the concept in all philosophical traditions. My rejection was of the role of rationality entering the field of the Ineffable, believing that it was really saying something with meaning in relation to Being, not about the vital realm where “Das Heilige” occurs, a spontaneous realm of Life-Intelligence. One thing is the philosophical thesis of the "Mysterium Tremendum" of existence, and another is the experience of that Mystery. According to the philosophical thesis, the Mystery has a rational and an irrational dimension. This does not...
On the symbolic constructions of human identity.