Such questions make us anxious. In our personal lives, this deeper layer of Reality is often dis-closed by crisis. An earthquake in Portugal,a famine in Ethiopia, a personal experience of loss, shakes us loose from our orindary views and for awhile, everything seems up for grabs. Grief, anxiety, dread, fear and trembling are, as the existentialist philosophers have pointed out, frequent paths towards discovering the deeper Mind. Another path, the via positiva is altering waking consciousness so that the primordial images rise to the surface.
Myth is the pattern that knits together self, society and comos into a meaningful matrix.
Myth is the province not of Facts and Reasonings but of Imagination. Myth says not what is, or isn't but might be or must be. It is towards this layer of Meaning, that Campbell ceaselessly directs our attention. From the perspective of the Whale-Mind, all things and ideas are connected by a network of luminous images. There is a fourth level of Mind and Nature towards which all of the above points.