Modern man finds himself without a vital mythology
rooted in depth life experience and therefore is not able to realize
his full humanness. The practical strategy of Recreated Secular/Religious
Mythology aimed toward this present critical situation. The New
Reconstruction of society will be realized through the six master
strategies, and will be founded on a Great Resurgence of the human
spirit. That resurgence depends upon the successful implementation
of a Recreated Secular/Religious Mythology which intends to give
a new self-story grounded in depth life experience and history,
and to creatively engage him in building a global society. The
intent is to provide adequate life stories that tell man his life
is significant and that reflect life as it actually confronts
him.
The Recreated Secular/Religious Mythology will give
man transcendent imagery and thus free him from the immediacy
caused by unrestrained scientism. In this way, he will be released
to see his oneness with all of life and thus discover the sacred
in the secular. Such an alteration of consciousness allows man
to experience his life as utterly significant and meaningful.
Furthermore, Recreated Secular/Religious Mythology intends to
create a new vocational perspective in which a person will decide
upon his vocation not out of self-interest but in light of the
fact that he shows up caring about global need. A new passion
for society will be released. Man would be freed to play any role
and engage in any situation. A life style where human expenditure
acts on behalf of all is to be created. Then responsible participation
of churchmen in society will redirect all of men into comprehensive
care structures for anew global society.
The practical strategy of Recreated Secular/Religious
Mythology functions by recovering the existential meaning of myths,
clarifying their experiential nature and by poetically articulating
the deepest meaning of life. Secondly, the strategy functions
by making man aware that he operates either consciously or unconsciously
out of a mythology, and that this mythology strongly influences
his behavior and decisions. For example, the person who finds
himself without a job is operating out of the accepted societal
myth that every man must work in order to be respectable. Thirdly,
it functions by confront man with the inadequacies of his present
operating principles such as scientism, individualism and religiosity
so that he will be struck by the need for a new myth and self-story.
And lastly, the strategy functions by funneling man's valid but
limited concerns into the comprehensive engagement of a responsible
global citizen.