Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief — Season 1, Episode 5: Story and Metastory (Part 1)
142 min • 1 season, 12 episodes
Episode synopsis
In this lecture, I make the case that we each inhabit a story, describing where we are, where we are going, and the actions we must undertake to get from the former to the latter. These inhabited stories are predicated on an underlying value system (as we must want to be where we are going more than we value where we are). In addition, they are frames of reference, allowing us to perceive (things that move us along; things that get in our way), make most of the world irrelevant (things that have no bearing on our current frame), and determine emotional significance (positive: things that move us along; negative: things that get in our way).
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)
- E6Story and Metastory (Part 2)
- E7Images of Story and Metastory
- E8Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
- E9Patterns of Symbolic Representation
- E10Genesis and the Buddha
- E11The Flood and the Tower
- E12Final: The Divinity of the Individual