Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief — Season 1, Episode 10: Genesis and the Buddha

Episode synopsis

In this lecture, I discuss the creation stories in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, and describe the parallels with the stories of the development of the Buddha from childhood to early adulthood, using the archetypal schema developed previous in the course.

About Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

This lecture series lays bare the grammar of mythology, and describes the relevance of that grammar for interpretation of narrative and religion, comprehension of ideological identification and understanding of individual choice.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Context and Background
• E2Marionettes and Individuals (Part 1)
• E3Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)
• E4Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)
• E5Story and Metastory (Part 1)
• E6Story and Metastory (Part 2)
• E7Images of Story and Metastory
• E8Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
• E9Patterns of Symbolic Representation
• E11The Flood and the Tower
• E12Final: The Divinity of the Individual