Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbellwas an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 March 1904
CountryUnited States of America
depth consciousness myth
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.
biography difficult distant facts images living myth mythology poetry remote science time whenever
Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.
country divisions earth mythology people symbol
When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.
love dream myth
Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.
inspirational people myth
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
definitions mythology one-sentence
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
narrative metaphor myth
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
religion mystery mythology
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
understanding mind mythology
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
misunderstood mythology
Religon is misunderstood mythology
dream myth personalized
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.
mythology misinterpreted defined
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
dream world myth
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.
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Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a