 Fast T friend says: And much more... read this, it'll make you feel good  i imagine Mr. Campbell would have liked2 meet Sartre`s saying: "the Life that you live can be highly alike the Life you find worth telling." (free translation) I reckon he would have (liked that), as he said: "The hero is the champion of things becoming ,not of things become". "Myth is depoliticised speech", Roland Barthes. (I do not like joseph campbell) About Joseph Campbell. For those interested in learning more from Campbell's perspective, the DVD Sukhavati - Place of Bliss: A Mythic Journey with Joseph Campbell is a very good resource. I'm interested in more about your objection to Campbell, abailart. I think Campbell is a fine populariser, a synthesiser of the study of myth, and seemed like a nice guy - everyone had good words about him. When i say i do not like <"joseph campbell"> i mean i do not like the activity of making him a 'modern hero'. The 'joseph campbell adulation industry' for a man who was admittedly an 'athletics hero' seems to miss the point that being admired and praised does not make one a hero; i think there is enough in campbell's writing to show that while he allows us all to be a hero, this heroism inolves not public adulation but courage, sacrifice, isolation, the very likely probability that such silent heroism will not be made public. Having said that, and return... How about Mircea Eliade? like him better? I have always had a bit of a problem with supporters of the Romanian Iron Guard (!)> To be honest, I have not read the guy but just had a look around and will give him a go. Having said that, my cursory impression is that he looks to be very good on some things that interest me, but i am cautious about his googled association with a small set of people like campbell, jung etc. My problems are that i don't like much of anything, though i like you, and that i have maybe a different slant on myth generally, tend to attend to the nature of narrative, metaphor, metonym paradigm, syntagm, biological syntax, and so on. But thanks for pointing me to him; as i say, i think i will find him very useful and interesting. He is drawing fire in this context and others, but I do think you'll find him interesting, especially The Myth of the Eternal Return (I haven't read all of his work, but this one I enjoyed). Oh, and i like you too How great that you two like one another since you've come together on a topic that neither of you know anything about. There are levels and then more levels when it comes to understand his construct of the consciousness which we all have access to, to the higher, finer, more beautiful, Idealistic, Truth ....this is the Journey about which he speaks. I've been studying him for years and I'd never be so arrogant as to dabble in trying to squeeze him or his thinking into a box. Being able to turn to his writings/tapes/seminars is like receiving Oxygen for my Spirit. I sincerely hope you too, give yourselves that opportunity to enlarge your own consciousnesses. metta Ditto p.s: I'm all for the ascent of consciousness, and somehow find it intriguingly incomprehensive, how love and appreciation for something may give basis for strife. |
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