Joseph Campbell | Pantheism.com
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It was, above all, the authentic life he lived that instructs us. When he said that myths are clues to our deepest spiritual potential, able to lead us to delight, illumination, and even rapture, he spoke as one who had been to the places he was inviting others to visit.
Joseph Campbell • The Power of Myth
In 1988, mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked, “Why should we care about myths? How's it going to affect my life?”
In response, he gave the most inspiring answer I could have imagined: "So we feel the rapture of being alive" https://t.co/M18FeAK1m9
Ashwin Sharmax.comIn a rare 1988 interview, mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked "How would you advise somebody to tap into joy?"
In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing and beautiful answer I could have ever imagined: https://t.co/pmJk3qzmVu
Ashwin Sharmax.com
JOSEPH CAMPBELL : Well, the ancient myths were designed to put the minds, the mental system, into accord with this body system, with this inheritance of the body.
BILL MOYERS : A harmony?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL : To harmonize. The mind can ramble off in strange ways, and want things that the body does not want. And the myths and rites were means to put
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