A lance with a tip that bleeds. A radiant object called the Grail. Toronto writer Cindy Bisaillon takes us on a quest to explore one of our most powerful and ancient myths. They dive, they hike, they parachute and they climb mountains. They're an lite corps of the Canadian Forces.
People have different styles of thought.
Literate and scientific modes of thought supposedly opposed more primitive modes. But contemporary scholars reject a hierarchical arrangement of thought styles. David Cayley reports from a recent symposium in Toronto, at which anthropologists, historians of ideas, philosophers of science and cognitive psychologists met to discuss modes of thought. The first written account of the Grail myth emerged in France at the end of the 12th century, a time of intense Christian devotion. The symbol of the Grail was pre-Christian, but it became the cup of the Last Supper that caught the blood of Christ on the cross.