Mythopoetics

 Human rituals have their roots in animal behavior, and the animal pattern has its roots in the need for repetition of living organisms, in the cyclical structure of physiological actions. At the human level, ritual behavior involves a delimitation of space and time, as well as a different meaning of both with respect to the spaces and times of everyday experience. From the ritual ceremonies of cold societies, we observe the care and thoroughness of the shaman to determine with precision the spaces, times and elements that intervene in the rite. Sacred space delimits the world, not only as a place of action, but also the scope of meaning of the things contained in that space. It is a space loaded with meaning: there is an order in things. Time itself acquires its meaning in relation to this order of things, and cyclically closes the space in the “tempo” of the rite, a tempo that is a symbol of the tempo of the World. What is not in the rite or is not referable to the rite has no re...

  Los rituales humanos hunden sus raíces en el comportamiento animal, y la pauta animal lo hace en la necesidad de repetición de los organismos vivos, en la estructura cíclica de las acciones fisiológicas. A nivel humano, la conducta ritual conlleva una acotación del espacio y del tiempo, así como una significación distinta de ambos con respecto a la de los espacios y tiempos de la experiencia cotidiana. Ya desde las ceremonias rituales de las sociedades frías, observamos el cuidado y minuciosidad del chamán para determinar con precisión los espacios, los tiempos y los elementos que intervienen en el rito. El espacio sagrado delimita el mundo, no sólo como lugar de la acción, sino el ámbito de significado de las cosas contenidas en ese espacio. Es un espacio cargado de significado: hay un orden en las cosas. El tiempo mismo adquiere su sentido en relación a este orden de las cosas, y cierra cíclicamente el espacio en el “tempo" del rito, un tempo que es símbolo del tempo del Mundo...

 From the point of view of human psychological transpersonality, we ourselves are the generations of the future. Our human lineage is a continuum of soul expressions of the Dance of the Cosmos. Passing the torch of the Sacred Fire is like making marks on the path so that we can see them and remember them, already being others, in times that today we consider future, but that are part of this same Trikala, this sphere of temporality in which our civilization moves, recreating the meanings of the past and the future. The general mythopoetic process of our humanity walked an ascending line of symbolization that has followed the paths of the Anima Mundi, the King-God, the Universal Law and the Human Law. This last mythopoetic stage has never been fully achieved. We have identified the human with a specific way of thinking that has been declared absolute by ourselves: rationality. First as philosophical rationality and then as technical rationality in which to express the forms of contr...

  Desde el punto de vista de la transpersonalidad psicológica humana, nosotros mismos somos las generaciones del futuro. Nuestro linaje humano es un continuo de expresiones anímicas de la Danza del Cosmos. Pasar la antorcha del Fuego Sagrado es como hacer marcas en el camino para que podamos verlas y recordar, ya siendo otros, en tiempos que hoy consideramos futuro, pero que son parte de este mismo Trikala, esta esfera de temporalidad en la que se mueve nuestra civilización, recreadora de los significados del pasado y del futuro. El proceso general mitopoético de nuestra humanidad ha seguido una línea ascendente de simbolización que ha recorrido los caminos del Anima Mundi, el Rey-Dios, la Ley Universal y la Ley Humana. Este último estadio mitopoético no ha sido realizado nunca de manera completa. Hemos identificado el humano con una forma específica de pensar que ha sido declarada absoluta por nosotros mismos: la racionalidad. Primero como racionalidad filosófica y después como ra...

  Existence is Encounter. Meeting at the limen. In the limen, the masks disappear, that is, the basic intuitions of identities, such as the identity that I feel and think in relation to the tree that I see in front of me. The identity of the tree is a projection of mine: the unity of my process of perceiving the tree generates a mask in me, the ghost of a limited unity separated from everything else. The simplest form of intuitive understanding of masks and limen is given to us by numbers. Numbers intuitively express the liminal tension that is Existence. A little etymological note. Rythmos in Greek means flow. Arythmos (number) is what does not flow, what remains solidified. Numbers express the liminoid, and flow, rhythm, expresses the liminal. A rhythm becomes liminoid when we can trace patterns in it, that is, when we can construct masks of identities. Mathematics has spoken of flow using the Latin word “continuum”, the continuous. All modern science, since Leibni...

  The narrative tradition of India contains true gems of fantastic literature that give rise to the most entertaining ethical and metaphysical speculations. In the collection of stories from the 11th century Katha-Sarit-Sagara ( The Ocean that Contains Streams of Stories ), which collects traditional stories from India, the loquacious ghost of a corpse taken down from a gallows tells the king who took him off the macabre swing a very interesting tragicomic tale. Two friends undertook a pilgrimage to a sacred spa of the goddess Kali, and there they saw a beautiful girl. One of them fell ill with passion, stopped eating and sleeping, and was sure that he would die unless he could have that girl as his wife. His friend contacted her father and explained the situation. The father, hurriedly, went to the girl's parents in order to organize the wedding. Shortly after the hasty marriage, the young couple and her friend left for her parents' house. On the way, they ca...

  The narrative grew in the process of being told, as myths always do. The Blog has become more labyrinthine over the years. It contains my Mythopoetics book and a few other things. For those who access these texts without knowing anything about Mythopoetics, I am going to post the introduction of the first part, so you can decide if you want to spend your precious time thinking about the identity narratives that we humans have developed over the years. throughout our eventful existence as a species. "Mythological narratives are the only intellectual activity that has been continuously practiced by human beings, a fact that makes them a unique tool for thinking synthetically our evolution as homo-sapiens. In this sense, they are the first valuation settings that humans have made about themselves and their environment, and as such, they have conditioned the ones that have come afterwards, both in form and content. Their communicative function places them at the basis o...