In this lecture, I continue my discussion of the archaic stories at the beginning of Genesis, including Cain and Abel, and the flood story of Noah (the return of chaos), and the story of the Tower of Babel (which I am reading as a very old warning about the danger of erecting something akin to a totalitarian/utopian secular state -- so that is pathological order).

1. Context and Background
2. Marionettes & Individuals (Part 1).
3. Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)
4. Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)
5. Story and Metastory (Part 1)
6. Story and MetaStory (Part 2)
7. Images of Story & MetaStory
8. Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
9. Patterns of Symbolic Representation
10. Genesis and the Buddha
11. The Flood and the Tower
12. Final: The Divinity of the Individual

This course is based on the book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Maps of Meaning lays bare the grammar of mythology, and describes the relevance of that grammar for interpretation of narrative and religion, comprehension of ideological identification, and understanding of the role that individual choice plays in the maintenance, transformation and destiny of social systems.