"Every once in a while a seed slips through and an entirely different fire of another color surges." J.H.
A Bit of personal Philosophy:
People are complex beings and reality is comprised of multidimensional realities. If something comes from the imagination it does not make it less real than our ability to string together facts perceived as truth; Also, the feelings of love I have is no less real than the place in-which I feel this love, the heart or how I understand love, the brain.
For me the myth or myth speak is the attempt to relate on an almost simultaneous level all at once the senses, natural cycles, the archetypal mind and spiritual knowingness or (gnosis) all in a moment of inspiration as a cohesion of collective expression. Not an easy task but a very relational and gratifying one when one can relax enough to allow the inner personal myth to speak. And, with the same tools that the myth is created, so should the myth be read, in a non-linear understanding facilitated by imagination. Very much like viewing a dance you have never seen before or a symbolic or abstract painting might be taken in, through an understanding that super-cedes rational thought. Myths require patients in understanding them, we often times do not begin to understand them until the subconcious has had it's time with them....