Why Religious Myths Alleviate Existential Despair

In this video, relying on Bernardo Kastrup’s book More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief, we explore why we need myths. For whether we realize it or not, all of us experience life through the lens of a myth. The choice we face, as we will examine, is not between myth or no myth, but between myths that create a meaningful and fulfilling life and those that generate suffering and despair.