9. meditation

As latecomers (twenty-five centuries or more) to the ancient world, our paganism radically repressed, we have to know the skew history puts into our eyeballs — the secularism that has no room for gods, the Christianism that doesn’t like pagan gods, the psychologisms that reduce them to personal complexes and human fantasies. Our insights are slanted by our modern beliefs so that we tend to see what we already know, unable to see what looks us in the face: “the god in the disease” of war.

The modern imagination has been trimmed to fit the TV screen; unable to imagine the real, unable to get out of the box.

-James Hillman, 2004