Assumption

Today, in Catholic circles, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, is celebrated.  Is this literal or myth?  Well, for many a Catholic it is literal, a faith based upon facts.  If it is a fact, then it is true.  If not a fact, then it is false, and so it goes for many a Catholic.  The Assumption says that Mary, after she died, or "fell asleep in death," did not get buried.  She went up to heaven, all 100 plus pounds of her.  Staying with the "facts" she would be the only one with this kind of a body in heaven, wherever that might be.  Even Jesus had a "Resurrected body." Now God can do anything, so many believers have no problem with this, but others are quite puzzled.  Now what if the Assumption is really truth in myth and symbol?  Then it might be a way that the Ancients used the myth of a special person ascending to the realm of the gods.  In other words, the teaching is for the pagan mentality which believed in myths as a way to express truth.  Cristians were trying to speak in a language appropriate to converting pagans.  Assumption is then speaking about union with the Divine that comes about through how one lives one's life.  Mary lived her life in a singularly spiritual manner, such that she is in union with the divine like no other person.  She did not literally go up into the sky with her 100 plus pound body.  The truth, I suggest, is not in body assumption, but in how she lived.  The significance of Assumption is to ask ourselves how we are living so as to deepen our union with the divine.  See Mary's life as an example.  How about Acceptance!  Surrender!  Your will, not mine be done!  Trust in God when your child is murdered!  Yeh, its a lot easier to just believe the bodily assumption.  It lets the ego live.