Visualisation and imagination create the symbols, the game, the mythic images. Ritual gives the images life, enacting the myth so that it might impact upon the individual. Con- centration maintains the images long enough that the desired effect is attained. Finally, the fate of our cultural myths warns us of a danger that lies in wait with the myths we use. However, abuse of the mind in relation to myths can be destructive.
Myths are experiential.
If we analyse and explain away the myths we use in the same way our culture has recently done with its own myths, we run the risk of devaluing them to the extent that they no longer have an impact on us and can no longer be used effectively to touch godhead.