Myth

Myth is biology explaining itself to consciousness: a mirror of the deep architecture of human experience before analytical tools existed. It arises when a biological event is interpreted by the organism and reflected back in symbolic form through the narrative layer of consciousness.

Healthy myth = symbolic translation tethered to the body

Cultural myth = shared compression of biological states

Psychotic myth = occurs when a symbol becomes untethered from its originating biological signal. Detached from context, the symbol manifests as a free-floating mythic entity, feared because its connection to the original process is no longer recognized.

Psychosis is often the raw biological signal erupting without the mythic interface that normally filters and stabilizes it.

The only path to resolving such psychosis is to venture inward and honestly map the terrain of one’s own mind, tracing the detached symbol back to its originating biological and psychological signal.

The hardware and coding of biology act as the projector. Consciousness is the screen. The symbols are the images created to interpret the biological signals.

The organism emits impulses, drives, alarms, appetites, and attachment pressures. Consciousness receives these as symbolic narratives, mythic figures, emotional storylines, and interpretive structures. This is how consciousness is trained.

Suffering and friction are not errors — they are the forced paradoxes built into the system to push consciousness toward greater resolution.
Every contradiction — desire vs. impossibility, love vs. loss, autonomy vs. dependence — functions as a pressure gradient that compels consciousness to expand its interpretive capacity.

The mind is forced to reconcile what the body demands with what reality permits.
This reconciliation pressure is the engine of inner evolution.

Seeing the hardware, and seeing the code, is what allows graduation from the cycle of eternal paradox.

Once you recognize:

the drives
the biological scripts
the hormonal imperatives
the attachment imprints
the evolved instincts
the story-generating interpreter
the mythic overlays

…you’re no longer trapped inside the paradox.
You see the machinery generating it.

At that point, consciousness is no longer simply reacting —
it is observing, mapping, and ultimately transcending the loops.

This is the exact threshold that most spiritual, philosophical, and mythic traditions gesture toward but do not articulate:

The moment when consciousness sees the projector instead of the movie.

That is the exit from the recursive contradiction that torments most people their entire lives.