This interdisciplinary collection probes how philosophy, myth, art, and media intertwine to shape creative understanding and practice. Originating in a symposium (Ohio University, Athens) and published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, the volume gathers essays that illuminate "structures of awareness" and the conditions under which images, language, and symbols make meaning.

Algis Mickūnas opens by...

This interdisciplinary collection probes how philosophy, myth, art, and media intertwine to shape creative understanding and practice. Originating in a symposium (Ohio University, Athens) and published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, the volume gathers essays that illuminate "structures of awareness" and the conditions under which images, language, and symbols make meaning.

Algis Mickūnas opens by distinguishing lived experience from theory and by tracing transcendental "arche" and eidetic reflection beyond mere visuality and representation. Eric Mark Kramer develops a comparative cultural and media lens (after Gebser) to show how multiple consciousness structures cooperate—and sometimes regress—in modernity. Naglis Kardelis explores the entanglement of philosophy and myth through Losev, Mickūnas, and Šliogeris; Olga LyandaGeller and Vladimir Marchenkov offer parallel readings of Losev and Gebser on language, history, and cultural trajectories. Ryan Senator places Jung and Gebser in dialogue on symbols as mediators of psychic wholeness; David S. Worth analyzes the platformmediated, visiocentric self; Rekha Menon examines how Jim Crowera imagery and visual culture perpetuate racial hierarchy; and Žilvinas Svigaris advocates empathycentered, artsrich education as a corrective to mechanistic rationality. Together, these essays model "creative fertilization" across disciplines and traditions, inviting readers to rethink identity, otherness, and responsibility in the contemporary lifeworld.