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Joseph Campbell’s Wisdom
Here's a thing, I don't really know how he does it, but every time I read/hear/stumble upon any quotation of Joseph Campbell's work, my day gets better. The feeling I get when going through his work is of relief, that all the seemingly static and infallible truths of the world stem from very simple needs. Somehow knowing that frees me to pursue the quenching of the needs, rather than the physical trappings we have set up around that need. It is very interesting.
The Power of Myth is a sort of revised and embellished version of the video interviews of Campbell conducted by Bill Moyers on Skywalker Ranch (home of George Lucas). The video is six hours long and was slimmed down from 26 hours of conversation on myth and its place in our lives. Joseph Campbell is so delightfully insightful--he sees the humanity of the study, as well as the science, spouting such sincere and life-changing directions as "follow your bliss." I mean, dang.
I would endorse this book to anyone who feels like they need some kind of answer to life's bigger questions. I learned so much from Joseph Campbell. He is truly one of the good guys. This book changed my life. It opened up a whole new world for me, a world much deeper and more significant even than the one I had, until then, imagined to be real. The past 13 years of my life, the direction(s) I have chosen to go, if it can be said that they have any creative significance at all, were able to go as far as they did because of the concepts and ideas introduced to me, almost exclusively --certainly most directly-- by Joseph Campbell in "The Power of Myth".
Having said all this, I am not suggesting that this book presents a 'definitive' worldview, that it has or pretends to have any sort of monopoly of the Truth. Joseph Campbell was a masterful weaver and a wonderful storyteller, yet at the same time, something I have come to appreciate more fully now that I have gotten a little older, he was able to cut right to the bone. He appreciated the external forms (myth and ritual, etc.) but didn't allow himself to get caught up in them; he could see right through them and, much to our benefit, he could get right to the (his) point (no B.S.). He has been the best teacher I never knew. I will forever be grateful that he was here.
Here's a quote from The Power of Myth "I don’t believe in being interested in a subject just because it’s said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow."
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