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The Arch of Metahistory
The five master themes of metahistory may be imagined to form an arch. Although these themes recur in all times, history is a chronological ordering of experience. From left to right, the arch stretches from a remote past in prehistory to our present global civilization. All five master themes are always operating in human experience, but their dynamics change over time.
Summary of Core Themes
The opposition between the natural world and technological society involves tremendous tension and determines many of the crucial moral dilemmas and survival-issues of our time. The three overarching themes — Eternal Conflict, Origins, and Moral Design — resonate with the structural tension of the baseline of the arch, and so these themes recur constantly in every situation of contemporary life.
Each component of the arch represents a comprehensive and repeating phase of experience enacted through a range of specific mythemes through which human beings identify their personal and collective belief-systems.
For instance, Eden, Paradise, and the Golden Age are subsumed in Sacred Nature. The Fall, the Flood, and War in Heaven are subsumed under Eternal Conflict. The mytheme of sacrifice, considered in two earlier cases in the Guidelines, appears in the category of Origins, because the sacrifice of the sacred king (messiah, the anointed one) is a ritualized belief upon which all civilizations were known to be originally based.
But sacrifice is not exclusively restricted to that category. The meaning of sacrifice also figures within Moral Design and even Technology. The belief that we must sacrifice the natural resources of the earth to have an adequate standard of living for global society is also an example of this mytheme.
In short, mythemes are fluid, capable of assuming different profiles relative to the five components of the arch. In the language of comparative mythology and depth psychology, the operative mythemes are said to “constellate” human activities both externally and in the personal psyche.
This means that a mytheme such as sacrifice gathers around itself a specific pattern of enactments (constellation), rather like a magnet gathers iron filings into a rosette or figure eight. The overarching themes of metahistory are tools for detecting and deciphering these patterns.
The five components — Sacred Nature, Eternal Conflict, Origins, Moral Design, and Technology — are discussed at greater length in individual pages dedicated to them, elsewhere in this metahistory site.
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