Science, Technology, Religion, Symbols & Dreams and Power of Myth
Science and Technology has permeated every aspects of our lives. We can not escape from it. However, vast majority of people do not believe in the supremacy of scientific method or scientific thinking. They tenaciously hang on to their belief systems showing that myth is more powerful than scientific facts when it comes to people's belief system. Symbols, myths and stories that reinforce the mythical aspects of life have a very strong emotional appeal to people.
Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize winner for literature for year 2007 said the following in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech
We own a legacy of languages, poems, histories, and it is not one that will ever be exhausted. It is there, always.
We have a bequest of stories, tales from the old storytellers, some of whose names we know, but some not. The storytellers go back and back, to a clearing in the forest where a great fire burns, and the old shamans dance and sing, for our heritage of stories began in fire, magic, the spirit world. And that is where it is held, today.
Ask any modern storyteller and they will say there is always a moment when they are touched with fire, with what we like to call inspiration, and this goes back and back to the beginning of our race, to the great winds that shaped us and our world.
The storyteller is deep inside every one of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is ravaged by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise. But the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us -for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
The video list below includes stories about the Science, Technology, Religion, Symbols & Dreams and Power of Myth.
Science Jacob Bronowski BBC series Ascent of Man
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Science James Burke Connections
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Technology Buckminster Fuller
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Religion Huston Smith
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Symbols & Dreams Carl Jung
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Carl Jung speaks about Death · Psychology
4 min 29 sec - Jun 18, 2007
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Face to face with Carl Jung - Part 1 of 4 · Psychology
10 min - Dec 3, 2007
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We are the evil interview with Carl Jung · Psychology
1 min 1 sec - Mar 29, 2008
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What you resist persist - Carl Yung · Spirituality
3 min 6 sec - Mar 21, 2007
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Carl Jung - Matters of Heart - Part 1
9 min - Dec 11, 2008
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CGJung Alchemy and how to predict the future · Psychology
1 min 22 sec - Jun 30, 2007
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Carl Gustav Jung Documentary Pt. 1 of 2 · Psychology
9 min - Dec 24, 2008
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Power of Myth Joseph Campbell
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