Narrative

Tropic Discourse

I suppose I have been interested in metaphor and other tropes since I went to a conference on “Metaphor and Thought” back when I was in g...

How We Fool Ourselves

Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we co...

How We Know Ourselves: c. In the World

We know our bodies intimately. It is through our bodies and our nervous systems that we are aware of and come to know anything at all. Bu...

Why Not Just Tell the Stories?

An occasionally wise erstwhile friend once told me he thought there were three important things in life to think about. While his express...

The Power of Literary Reading

This is a "guest blog" from my old friend Martha, my one-time Dean of Faculty who got me involved in a writing group, part of the inspira...

Call Me Ishmael No More

A personal example, using myth to understand and make sense out of the course of one’s life, is from my early academic journey. It uses M...

A Deal with the Devil

Consistent with the overall theme of Neuromythology, I am including an interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The myth can b...

You Make Me Sick

We’ve all expressed strong feelings about something or someone with expressions like “you smell,” “you make me sick,” or “you make me wan...

Forbidden Knowledge

Parental Advisory: Explicit Content One of the truths about our neurophysiology is habituation, feeling less and less with repetition of ...

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