Sublime

Goddess (here in reduced form as the serpent’s messenger, Eve) testified to the right of Man to come to the knowledge of the now forbidden Light.

As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, “‘What will they think of me?’ must be put aside for bliss.” We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain.

Here is nearly every story you see or hear in a nutshell: A CHARACTER who wants something encounters a PROBLEM before they can get it. At the peak of their despair, a GUIDE steps into their lives, gives them a PLAN, and CALLS THEM TO ACTION. That action helps them avoid FAILURE and ends in a SUCCESS.

now and be happy. I hear Joseph Campbell: “People are not looking for the meaning of life, they are looking for the feeling of being alive.”

That we have come forth from the one ground of being as manifestations in the field of time. The field of time is a kind of shadow play over a timeless ground. And you play the game in the shadow field, you enact your side of the polarity with all your might. But you know that your enemy, for example, is simply the other side of what you would see

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 t

Joseph Campbell refers to this part of his monomythic Hero’s Journey as ‘the Road of Trials’, which he defines as a series of discrete tests, tasks or ordeals that the Hero must undergo (and in which he sometimes might fail) in order to achieve transformation.