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Tracking the Gods
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Course Introduction (3:00)
Part One: The Nature and Importance of Myth
01. The Definition of Gods and Myth (7:27)
02. Four Cultural Functions of Myth (4:07)
03. Mythic Dissonance (7:54)
04. What is the Modern and Post-Modern Dilemma? (9:05)
05. The Role of Mythological Connections. Illustration from the Kiowa Nation (9:29)
06. The Cosmic Drama (18:58)
07. Where Did the Gods Go? (21:56)
Part Two: Modernism and the Erosion of Certainty
08. The Loss of "the Ladder." (Yeats) (4:42)
09. Four Stages Evolved in the Western Civilization (4:29)
10. Dante’s The Divine Comedy, 1320 (5:50)
11. Other Psycho-mythic Signal Dates: Giordano Bruno, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei (5:53)
12. Hamlet by Shakespeare – "I’m my own problem" (2:34)
13. Big Shifts of the 18th and 19th Centuries and "Invention" of Psychology (3:50)
14. Definition and Manifestations of Modernism (4:00)
15. Consumerism and a Profound Need for Connection to the Numinous (10:19)
16. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a Portrait of the Modern Paradox (9:26)
17. The Democratization of Evil (5:19)
18. Transition to the Modern: Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Meliorism (10:01)
19. A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter (11:34)
Part Three: The Archetypal Patterns: Eternal Cycle and Quest
20. Archetypes as Verbs. Their Purpose and Functions (10:07)
21. A Projection and Its Stages (6:37)
22. Cultural patterns. Genesis, the Story of Creation. Mythopoetic "Truths." (9:03)
23. Two Large Organizing Patterns: The Great Cycle and the Quest (12:47)
24. Applying the Cycle of Eternal Return and the Quest to Our Lives (24:49)
Part Four: Tracking the Gods: Twin Tasks--Living One's Journey and Serving the Mystery
25. How Do we Track the Gods? (10:14)
26. Where is the Hero Task in Our Lives? (6:06)
27. The Triune Task of the Journey (9:57)
28. Questions and Answers (1) (9:24)
29. Tracking the Gods: Living One's Journey (16:14)
30. Questions and Answers (2) (13:03)
31. Tracking the Gods: Serving the Mystery (20:23)
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08. The Loss of "the Ladder." (Yeats)
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