I ll be talking a great deal more about Hillman s essay in a later class. The components of personality are covered in Jean Shinoda Bolen s two books, Goddesses in Everywoman and Gods in Everyman . Immediately the memory crystallizes into story. Such constructs are an attempt not only to portray but also to find meaning. On a philosophical level, meaning, or the search for it, has always been at the basis of story.
Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness.
Meaning makes a great many things endurable perhaps everything. No science will ever replace myth, and a myth cannot be made out of any science. For it is not that God is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. Bill Moyers has said, The story of our lives is crucial to understanding who we are and to which we have to ascribe some meaning. That s where we find meaning.