{"id":5713,"date":"2019-09-13T04:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2019-09-19T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:48:10","slug":"the-message-of-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/13\/the-message-of-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Message of Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The message of myth is this: <br>You as you know yourself are not the final term of your own being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The great way has no gate. <br>There are a thousand pathways to it.<br>He who crosses the threshold<br>walks the universe alone.&nbsp;<\/p><cite>Wu Wei<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Art frees the spirit, but imprisons the psyche. Philosophy frees the psyche, but imprisons the spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What you want seems to come from a complete acceptance of what you don\u2019t want. The story of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/christian-bond\/episodes\/Sir-Gawain-and-Dame-Ragnell-e2ova6\">Gawain and Dame Ragnell<\/a>\u201d seems to exemplify that point to the utter bone. Gawain goes further than anyone would and then even a step further with no expectation and then it\u2019s that utter, utter, utter acceptance, which I don\u2019t how any human being can evoke in himself at will, that completely unlocks the door of bliss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The message of myth is this: You as you know yourself are not the final term of your own being.&nbsp; The great way has no gate. There are a thousand pathways to it.He who crosses the thresholdwalks the universe alone.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/13\/the-message-of-myth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}