As I noted in my last post, my greatest struggle over my life has been in trying to understand what has been happening to me.
Why?
Because if you can’t find the words to articulate your life experiences, how can you possible express them to others?
In rereading the book Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life by D. Stephenson Bond though, a lot of things have coalesced together and started making sense, so much so that the quotes within the book have left me dumbstruck at how closely they mirror my own life and how closely they mirror aspects of vertical development as well.
In terms of my personal myth, this is the story of my life that reveals how I made meaning out of my life as I progressed through it.
A key element of this process, that I’ve mentioned before, is keywords that kept emerging from quotes that I was reading and they revealed synchronicities between articles and books I was reading. At first I thought I was going crazy because I didn’t know what to do with these quotes and keywords. However, over time, I realized that these keywords held a deeper meaning behind them.
What I’ve now confirmed with three different AI chatbots is that these keywords were effectively the symbols of my emerging personal myth. Normally these symbols might be dreams or images that keep popping up in a pattern but in my case they were words that kept popping up in a pattern, over and over again.
What I’ve also realized now as well is that my personal myth is revealing my personal cosmology.
Note I didn’t say it “has revealed” it fully because it is still a work in progress as it is my life’s work after all (which I’ve always said).
More later on this, as I’m still trying to process this all and make sense of the process within the book which to me both embodies liminality and creativity at the same time.