Two Cultural Cycles: Logos And Mythos with Joe McHugh

MP3 Download Using the Greek myth of Perseus and Medusa, Joe McHugh describes how we are turned to stone by the very technologies we’ve invented. Throughout time human culture has been dominated by these technologies and sometimes they play into our mythos knowing and at other times they play into our logos knowing. When he refers to mythos knowing, he is talking about sensory knowing. He says, “[Mythos] is larger than just our five senses…Emotion as well as intuition, ESP, premonitions, and dreams [are all] sensation based. They are part of your mythos brain …Mythos brain has no sense of history. It's in the present moment." Mythos knowing dominated medieval times: the days of the rise of large cathedrals with huge stain glass windows and organ music reverberating throughout. This time is followed by the invention of the clock and Gutenberg’s printing press which led us into the reformation and the age of logos as well as the start of the industrial revolution. He refers to logos brai