assigned books or journal articles:Mircea Eliade "Myth and Reality"
"Coincidence of opposites" Eliade explains that many myths, rituals, and mystical experiences involve a coincidentia oppositorum (or mythical pattern). What caught my eye most was the expression of two divine figures, each sprung from the same principle and destined to be reconciled. So the divinity shows itself, yet in a benevolent and terrible, creative and destructive way. So there can be actuality and destruction in the same instance. I found this to be interesting because if you can be both destructive and creative, how do we ever define something as real? Or does everything have a supernatural aspect to it? He goes on relating the coincidential oppositorum to humans by explaining the dissatisfaction of the actual situation to the human condition. When I thought about it, this seems to be true in everyday life. I believe we surround ourselves by the myth and when this isn't the actual case, we are not happy with the reality of things.
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