We all love stories.

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Ancient stories, modern stories, and everything in between.

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Some of these stories are more profound.

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So they turn into myths.

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And myths turn a story into something very special.

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Myths touch upon something very deep and fundamental to our nature.

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They capture the essence of what it means to be human.

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And they raise our awareness and our consciousness of how to live a better life.

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There is something very archetypal about myths.

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Yet they are not to be taken literally.

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Unfortunately, there are many myths in the world that are taken literally.

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And when that happens we hold onto the allegory or the metaphor tightly.

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We believe they are true and real.

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When they are meant to be an indication of something, not the thing itself.

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This is what has happened in religion.

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A powerful myth around how to grow spiritually has ben codified and turned into a history.

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When in fact, the stories were meant to inspire and inform our own spiritual journey.

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They were not mean to limit us or raise us above someone else.

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These stories are archetypal stories of how to transform our own consciousness into something greater.

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Something grander, something more heroic.

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The myth is a map, not the territory.

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It is something to stir up our soul, and call us to be the greater person we dream of being.

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Myths use powerful symbols and characters to inform us and teach us.

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To teach us how to be better people, how to deal with challenges, and how rise above the confusion of life.

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The same way a modern movie can be a myth for modern times, yet they are not something to be taken as reality.

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So too the myths of ancient times are not to be taken as a literal story of actual events.

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They are so much greater than that.

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To take a myth as a literal story does a great disservice to the myth.

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And to ourselves.

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So is there a myth that inspires you in your own life?

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What can you learn from myths old and new?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour