Myth Became Fact – C.S.Lewis

C.S. Lewis discusses in his essay, Myth Became Fact, that “what flows into you from the myth is not truth but reality.” He continues in saying that truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is. As I read Til We Have Faces and The Chronicle Series, I experienced exactly what Lewis was hitting on in this excerpt. While I wasn’t enlightened by any particular truths, I did feel like I was delving into the fringes of something real, of something bigger than me, and bigger than this adulterated culture when I am stuck in the middle of. Each of those books were page-turners to me, and I think the reason why is because these myths allowed me to escape from my own little world; they allowed me to rid myself of the box which I place God in, and my philosophies of life in general.