Sentence:  Time and again in counseling and teaching , one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial <WSD>mythologies</WSD> of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person