Dr. John Knight Lundwall | Wisdom & The Oral Tradition: Memory and Storytelling From Mythos to Logos

Dr. John Knight Lundwall joins InnerVerse to discuss his groundbreaking book, Mythos and Cosmos: Mind and Meaning in the Oral Age. Picking up the torch where hundreds of years of academia missed the mark, Dr. Lundwall guides our understanding of mythology as a technical language akin to scientific jargon, exposes the epistemological wall between literacy and orality, explains the analogical aspect of oral myth via the example of human sacrifices, and ponders why oral cultures did not keep histories as we know them.

In the Plus+ Extension we turn our discussion towards the category error of modernity to consider oral rites and stories as religion, question just what religion is through the example of the cult of state mandated "public health," the Renaissance prodigy Camillo and what his memory theater informs us of our own potential to recall complex ideas, the relationship between light pollution and literacy, and what it means to marry the best of both the oral and literary mind.

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