Michael Chase Walker's lectures on the origins of mythology, mass storytelling and the building blocks of human consciousness

37. The Stars were our first Scriptures…

38. Religions are great art, and they work precisely
because they aren't true, real, or provable.
They take their ethereal power from the imagination and
intuition, and only become dangerous in the dull wits
and blunt nervous systems who possess neither.
It'll never disappear and even if 'you wiped it away
tomorrow', as Jung suggests, 'the volkskulture’ would
rise up to replace it'.
Religion in the deepest sense of the word is the
organization of myth,†dreams, poetry and the imaginal
realms. It has not only led to man's greatest horrors, but
his greatest achievements as well. As any†artist or
physicist will tell you about a theory or a painting-- it
was born of their imagination and intuition: the places
religions are born.
Oddly enough it's not religions we have to work against,
but what they become in the hands of the dim-witted
brutes who lack intuition,†imagination, and an
education.
"Civilization is a race between education and
catastrophe." H.G. Wells