MYTH, HISTORY & FAITH
Morton Kelsey
The mysteries of Christian myth and imagination
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"If these primal spiritual forces – these archetypal powers – can work through the collective unconscious to touch and influence [us] through our myth and ritual and imagination, including imaginative prayer, then we can in actual fact alter the course of history."
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"God has ways of communicating, and the human being has all sorts of depths and capacities for responding."
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"Scientific discovery itself is not possible without thinking in images and symbols and myths."
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"Myth is integral to almost every one of man's religions….Myth is essentially the way man talks about his religious encounter with God and the spiritual world."
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"In the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the saving and transforming pattern of reality was CONSCIOUSLY written into the fabric of history."
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"The more unconscious humans are the less control they have over which myth operates through them."
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