There is another source of wisdom that we also need, and that other source of wisdom is myth, mythos. A myth is an essential ingredient to a rich human life and culture. And the word means many different things. It could mean speech, story, fiction or plot, logos. I think we could say, a great meaning that it has, which helps us in our situation, I think is ‘conversation’, to have a conversation. Myth provides a people with a common language of the mind, and also entertainment and instruction and material for imagination. Without a healthy myth, we wither as social beings, we feel lost, we feel locked up in ourselves as individuals and in our fantasies. Loss of myth means the loss of conversation.
( Sources of Wisdom by Laurence Freeman OSB )
