How long, indeed?

While there can be no accurate measurements, how long does it take for a mistaken impression of some event or experience to literally turn into a myth, that is carried on the wind (the voice, generally) and sometimes enters into the commonality of human experience? Think about it NOT from the point of view of past history of people on this planet creating fairy stories and other similar myths - like turning a girl with a red cloak running from a hungry wolf in the forest, into the story of "Little Red and her Grandmama"; or turning a smart young Jew who with his friends got into some trouble with the Powers-that-were, into the story of "Christ Jesus being crucified and then ascending to Heaven after three days" - but you and your own life.

Consider this little tidbit: How long did it take YOU to become the myth you now are? Yes, that's what you've become to yourself whether or not you realize it. This book of stories you have been telling yourself for decades, "my early years", "my coming of age", "my first love", and all the rest of those make-believe anecdotes and memories all wrapped in language that you take as reality, as "ME", that 1) you didn't actually write (but were written in you by unknown-to-you processes), and 2) you can't alter after-the-fact anyway due to not knowing the "Secret Thought-of-Creation, and Uncreation".

This "myth" that one has become is, of course, composed of many, many side-stories, but they all play their small part in the Great Storyline - the Myth - "What a sweet and wonderful guy am I", or "What a pathetic loser am I", or "What a common and ordinary person am I", or "Etc., etc." but none of this matters. The myth is already firmly in place and presents to the world what THEY see of you, no matter how hard one tries to conceal it. To the, even, relatively awake observer the Truth about other people is readily seen, though very few will tell the other one about it. It's just not "politically correct" you know. Too bad, too, because if people told, at least, their friends what they were seeing about their thoughts and actions, more people might come to the necessary realization that they are simply NOT what they thought they were... but something else entirely... and then might have begun to observe more, think more, feel more, sense more, and consider more about being alive, in a human body, in this generation.

Just as chemicals interacting with neurons - hormones interacting with neuropeptides - create the Myth that is everyone you know, and every one of your own "i's" - some of which taking on a larger or smaller role in the Myth that is one's personality - one must, eventually, learn how to synthesize a new mysticism using these same common homegrown hormones and neuropeptides, to become a New Mythical Being, which of course - if realized - supplants the accidental creation (abomination?) with an Intentional One (spiritualization?)