Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: InnerVerse
Episode: Dr. John Knight Lundwall | Wisdom & The Oral Tradition: Memory and Storytelling From Mythos to Logos
Description: Dr. John Knight Lundwall joins InnerVerse to discuss his groundbreaking book, Mythos and Cosmos: Mind and Meaning in the Oral Age. Picking up the torch where hundreds of years of academia missed the mark, Dr. Lundwall guides our understanding of mythology as a technical language akin to scientific jargon, exposes the epistemological wall between literacy and orality, explains the analogical aspect of oral myth via the example of human sacrifices, and ponders why oral cultures did not keep histories as we know them. In the Plus+ Extension we turn our discussion towards the category error o...