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Recombinant Mythology by Gregory Scott Baisden, Ph.D.

Research paper thumbnail of Yudhisthira: The Dharma of Awareness in Participation

Research paper thumbnail of Mythology, Religion, Philosophy: Provisional Thoughts on “The Anti-Life Equation”

Research paper thumbnail of The Philadelphia Story | An Olympian Comedy of Manners

Margaret Lord and Macaulay Connor, The Philadelphia Story (MGM, 1940) The way the duo exudes contempt for each other in that silent first scene, actually a

Research paper thumbnail of Epic Literature As A Mythopoesis of Recognition and Reclamation

“under a couple of low trees...growing close together out of one root, a wild garden olive and a timely inspired by Athena. After kissing mother earth, the hero crept into a shaggy coppice, blackthorn” (Homer 72). Heaping leaves over his naked self, he huddled grateful for even so gift and equipage, Odysseus washed ashore, retaining — spared by — naught but his quick wit,

Research paper thumbnail of Theos Sumpiptein | God Lost? God Found?

Research paper thumbnail of The Great Reversal and The Anti-Life Equation | Ruminations on Joseph Campbell's Creative Mythology

Darkseid, the Overlord of Apokolips, seeks The Anti-Life Equation as his holy grail — a boon not for regener- ating life but for establishing universal mind control, the total subjugation of all free will and choice to his absolute command. Writer-Artist Jack Kirby’s epic vision (inaugurated in DC Comics’ The New Gods #1, February/March 1971) served as a primary inspiration for George Lucas’ Star Wars, in which the filmmaker turned Kirby’s monstrous Darkseid, enemy of the life-generative “Source,” into Darth Vader, servant of “the dark side” of an all-pervasive “Force.” Copyright © DC Comics, Inc.

Research paper thumbnail of Recombinant Mythology as answer to The Anti-Life Equation

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Research paper thumbnail of “What A Myth Is” | Freudian and Jungian Perspectives on the Myth of Orpheus

in tandem provide us as comprehensive a description of "what a myth is" as we are likely to parse... more in tandem provide us as comprehensive a description of "what a myth is" as we are likely to parse, fashion, or paraphrase. The latter crafts an expositional definition in Mythography (11) while the former delineates a functional under-standing in The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (519-522). Doty explains the particular cultural stories that, aggregated, form a mythology as defining stories or foundational accounts comprising metaphoric and symbolic diction and imagery that foster emotional conviction and participation while charting a particular culture's values and beliefs -its engagement with the world as experienced and understood -and its sense of humanity's

Papers by Gregory Scott Baisden, Ph.D.

Research paper thumbnail of Recombinant Mythology as answer to the Anti-Life Equation

Recombinant Mythology as answer to the Anti-Life Equation

Research paper thumbnail of Yudhisthira: The Dharma of Awareness in Participation

Research paper thumbnail of Mythology, Religion, Philosophy: Provisional Thoughts on “The Anti-Life Equation”

Research paper thumbnail of The Philadelphia Story | An Olympian Comedy of Manners

Margaret Lord and Macaulay Connor, The Philadelphia Story (MGM, 1940) The way the duo exudes contempt for each other in that silent first scene, actually a

Research paper thumbnail of Epic Literature As A Mythopoesis of Recognition and Reclamation

“under a couple of low trees...growing close together out of one root, a wild garden olive and a timely inspired by Athena. After kissing mother earth, the hero crept into a shaggy coppice, blackthorn” (Homer 72). Heaping leaves over his naked self, he huddled grateful for even so gift and equipage, Odysseus washed ashore, retaining — spared by — naught but his quick wit,

Research paper thumbnail of Theos Sumpiptein | God Lost? God Found?

Research paper thumbnail of The Great Reversal and The Anti-Life Equation | Ruminations on Joseph Campbell's Creative Mythology

Darkseid, the Overlord of Apokolips, seeks The Anti-Life Equation as his holy grail — a boon not for regener- ating life but for establishing universal mind control, the total subjugation of all free will and choice to his absolute command. Writer-Artist Jack Kirby’s epic vision (inaugurated in DC Comics’ The New Gods #1, February/March 1971) served as a primary inspiration for George Lucas’ Star Wars, in which the filmmaker turned Kirby’s monstrous Darkseid, enemy of the life-generative “Source,” into Darth Vader, servant of “the dark side” of an all-pervasive “Force.” Copyright © DC Comics, Inc.

Research paper thumbnail of Recombinant Mythology as answer to The Anti-Life Equation

| Recombinant Mythology • 2

Research paper thumbnail of “What A Myth Is” | Freudian and Jungian Perspectives on the Myth of Orpheus

in tandem provide us as comprehensive a description of "what a myth is" as we are likely to parse... more in tandem provide us as comprehensive a description of "what a myth is" as we are likely to parse, fashion, or paraphrase. The latter crafts an expositional definition in Mythography (11) while the former delineates a functional under-standing in The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (519-522). Doty explains the particular cultural stories that, aggregated, form a mythology as defining stories or foundational accounts comprising metaphoric and symbolic diction and imagery that foster emotional conviction and participation while charting a particular culture's values and beliefs -its engagement with the world as experienced and understood -and its sense of humanity's

Research paper thumbnail of Recombinant Mythology as answer to the Anti-Life Equation

Recombinant Mythology as answer to the Anti-Life Equation

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