The Power of Myth

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Before I was married, I used to eat out in the restaurants of town for my luiieh and dinners. Thursdav night was the maids night offin Bronxville. so that nianv of the families were out in restaurants. One fine evening I was in my favorité restaurant there. and at the next table there was a father, a mother and a serawnv boy about twelve years old. The father said to the boy, "Drink your toniato juice." And the boy said. "I don't want to." Then the father. with a louder voiee, said. "Drink your tomato juice." And the mother said, "Don't make him do what he doesn't want to do." The father looked at her and said. "He eant go through life doÉig what he wants to do...IVe never done a thing I wanted to in all my life..." Thats the man who never followed his bliss...I alwavs teli my students. go where your body and soul want to go. When vou have the feeling. then stav with it, and don't let anvone throw vou off. ...I have bougjht this wonderful maehine-a computer ...Its a miraele. what happens 011 that sereen. Have vou ever looked inside one of those things?...Vou can't believe it. Its a whole hicrarehv of aiigels-all 011 slats. And those littlc tubes-those are miraeles. 1 have had a revelation from my computer about niythology. Vou buv a ccrtain software, and there is a whole set of signals that leíid to the aehievement ofvour aim. If vou begin fooJing arouiid with signals that belong to another system of software, they just won't work... Vou must understand that each religion is a kind of software that has its own set of signals and will work. Mvths formulatc things for vou. They sav. for example, that vou have to become an aduit at a particular age. The age might be a good averagc age for that to happen-but actually. in the individual life. it differs greatly. Somé people are late bloomers. and come to particular stages at a relativcly late age. Vou have to have a feeling for where vou are. Vau Ve got only one life to live. and vou don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it. Vissza