In this lecture, I discuss the relationship between the basic categories of imagistic/symbolic representation and brain function, noting that the very hemispheres of the brain are adapted, right/left to the environmental or experiential permanence of chaos/order or unexplored/explored territory, with consciousness serving the Logos role of communicative explorer (a function related in one of its deepest manifestations to the function of the hypothalamically grounded dopaminergic systems).

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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.