Legends Never Die

The "legends" of our ancestors really never die. They can become mind viruses, transmitted through symbols / words that are passed down via books and vocal chords, through our schools and stories.

But I dont judge viruses negatively anymore. I know better. Biological viruses are surely one in part of the super species we humans have become. We can manifest these legends as guardian "angels" or tulpas ...illusions.  Just as our DNA and the viruses that fused with it synergistically leveled up, so can we use illusions to change ourselves for the better.

Carl Jung focused on the aspect of dreams where mythological beings and ancestors can appear in your dream, making for a more powerful experience than the normal dream. But this is more than dreams of our sleep. Its about the dreams of our waking reality.

If we put enough mental energy into this manifestation during our wakeful state, we can do more...

These legends are and would be limited to what we know about them, of course, but with good (divine) intention they grow for the same reason we grow. All is in a state of flux. The energy spent on thinking and imagining forever changes the future of the minds laddicework.

Thinking and imagining alters the labyrinth, shifting it's passageways and making the unknown Known. 

After manifestation of an illusion, here's where it gets interesting. We are free to hinge ourselves upwards towards these greater illusions until they manifest as something more. As tools, guides for how we navigate the wily world and the minds mazes. We may not be them but we can deploy their being in our waking reality. We can interact with the world and people, and strategize in ways more optimal than you currently imagine yourself. 

Actually, the way you imagine yourself can never be accurate

Legend: a story coming down from the past, especially one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legend

In a sense, we are all Legends. We’ve all already created unverifiable stories about ourselves and our past, that exists solely in the realm of imagination. The difference? Youve learned about the other legends via external sources. You've learned about yourself only through your own explorations of your mind and reality, the latter bends depending on your frame of reference and experiences.

"Stand on the shoulders of giants" is a vaguely superficially related techo-atheistic sentiment. But a giant can not withstand being stood on by another giant. And what about the next, 3rd generation? These legends are illusions and dont exist outside your mind. The knowledge is only momentarily real when it is manifested by the mind of conscious beings. That is, if we see value in their integration, we can begin to convert thoughts into destiny (a wide chasm lays between them):

Your thoughts become your words,

Myths tend to cover spheres of spirituality and the intangible, unsummarizable by words

Non fictional ancestors cover spheres of philosophy, politics & technology

A mix of 1 & 2 is the overlaying of mythic elements on real ancestors

One of the issues that I see with modern society is the lack of understanding of the myths, and a resolute focus on the latter. Some of you reading this may look down upon people who mistake myth as the Real. But, interestingly, they have a much more clear path to manifesting destiny since they need not deal with inanimate nihilism; a spiritual affliction that induces the loss of the absolute greatness of illusions.  “Absolute” because our ancestors (or something greater…) imbued them with with greatness for their descendants: Us.

So the particular followers of some mythology may be deceived, yet they are following the principles above.  One of the most impressive examples is Jesus Christ. A complex mix of myth and ancestor. Christians use him as a guide, a guardian angel or whatever the label of the times may be. I’ve met more than a couple of people who have claimed to speak to their Christian God (in highly ritualistic settings usally.) There appears to be similar potential in myths in all religions and spirituality.

In fact, their reality is generated by a resolute belief in them. The rules of mental sensation are far from understood, but the fact I can "hear" myself talking without moving my vocal chords is one hint that our being can somehow skip the physical realm entirely, interpreting electro-chemico-aetherical formations to a limit or no limit at all.

So who inspires you?  What myth can inspire you, if framed with the appropriate intentions?

What are your limits as a being in this world? Who are you? And who do you want to become?