ABSTRACT
The task of myth is not to falsify history but to deepen our experience of it, and place history in the realm of spirit. Time is elevated by linking it with the timeless. It is myth that allows us to experience the spiritual dimension of history. It is not to the psychology of consciousness that myths refer, but to the "depth" psychology of the unconscious. Empirical science does not explore the unconscious and scientific psychology in the universities does not even acknowledge that it exists. Armstrong is concerned that religion has become derailed. It has lost its grounding in mythos and pretends to be a kind of logos. Myths oppose the profane world and seek to move beyond it to forge a link with eternity. In Christian mythology, the nearest we have to this is the prayer: "As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.".
