What enables you to understand your reality?

'Every culture is based upon mythological substrate that provides a particular basis for understanding and interpreting reality. The ancient greeks gave us zeus, athena, hermes, and a pantheon of quarrelsome Olympians who interject themselves into the human as a kind of aristocratic blood sport. The Hindus embody their cosmic principles in colorful multi-armed divinities such as Brahma, Vishnu, Shakti, Kali, and Shiva-creators, protectors, destroyers, and serene contemplators. The Mesoamerican cultures personified their metaphysic in a dizzying array of figures who enfold and interpenetrate one another: Omeototl, Quetzalcoatl, Itzpapalotli, Mixcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, to name but a few. Christians worship the Trinity of father, son and Holy Ghost, embodying the feminine principle in Mary as well as long-neglected sophia, goddess of wisdom known to the Gnostics. Is it far-fetched to suggest that the deities of our secular age include the superstrings, selfish genes, Black Holes, and big bangs described by our scientists, that define the limits of the materialist worldview?' Graham Hancock