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Maps of Meaning 5: Grappling with Fear
28:31  - 3 years ago
This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 5th of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Theme: The chaos out of which the world is generated is first encountered during contact with the anomalous, unknown, misunderstood or threatening. Things that are not understood are dangerous and vague. Retreat from such things is one option, but such retreat does not allow for growth or learning. Retreat means that the unknown stays both unknown and frightening. Voluntary approach, by contrast, generates information. From that information the personality is generated.
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