The Reawakening of Myth

In the common parlance of the modern world myth is often taken to refer to something false a foolish misconception or the superstitions of primitive societies and archaic worldviews that have been discredited and overcome by secular empirical reason. In The Reawakening of Myth Boris Nad contends that nothing could be further from the truth. Sacred Myth Nad sketches is concerned with timeless realities which express fundamental principles and the worlds mythologies are rich repositories of wisdom and experience touching the existential nerves of the human condition. Mythical forces beings and realities can and might very well have withdrawn from our line of sight but they have not disappeared. Myth continues to express itself in history whether we are conscious of it or not and just as myths might seem to withdraw so can they return.The Reawakening of Myth gathers an unprecedented selection of Boris Nads meditations on Myth in different genres - from essays and commentaries to short stories novels and accounts of visionary experiences. Nad not only retells investigates and compares ancient myths across North South East and West but goes further to envision how the conflicts and crises of the present might be deciphered in mythical terms. From the epics of ancient Greece and India to Christian visions of the End Times from the mysterious lands of Hyperborea Atlantis and Agartha to modern geopolitics from visions of prehistoric paradises to Postmodern dystopias Boris Nads The Reawakening of Myth is an immersion into how Myth and the processes of de-mythologization and re-mythologization constantly affect our world our history and ourselves.