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Q: Joseph Campbell Sukhavati: Place of Bliss
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Myth works when you know what it is about, when it says something to you because it says something about you. We must become mythic as a species if we are to survive. The great individuation of cultures each based on their myths must lead, through an emphasis on their similarities, to a planetization of mankind. For all things are one; the hero has a thousand faces, a unity in diversity. Myth is like a force field; it unfolds and calls forth our own special genius and is the basis of our understanding of our world, ourselves and our own transformation through life’s inevitable trials and tribulations.-Robert Siegel discussing Joseph Campbell on "The Spirit of Things", ABC Radio National, 17 January 1999, 6:05-7:00 pm.
You popularized an attitude, an understanding,
of myth with a remarkable consistency
with that universal myth
that has captured my heart and mind
in this post-war world1.
I have been redesigning, retooling this protean self
and losing myself, giving myself, expanding myself
around this mythic base, this essence, this core,
where a yearning, pathos, has produced a sweetness,
dulce, settling in, an abundance scooped up, an updraft,
scooped up, with a bliss quotient that is inestimable,
indefinable. But there is always the work, the giving,
always more, a doubling of effort, a fatigue, a mystery,
a sadness, a tension, a working out of the myth in my
own life, in its individuality and its collective identity.
Ron Price
17 January 1999
1 Joseph Campbell is the great popularizer of myth in the post-war period, beginning with his first book The Hero With a Thousand Faces(1949). There are many similarities between Campbell and the Baha’i concept of myth, certainly a great deal that has been useful to me.
Myth works when you know what it is about, when it says something to you because it says something about you. We must become mythic as a species if we are to survive. The great individuation of cultures each based on their myths must lead, through an emphasis on their similarities, to a planetization of mankind. For all things are one; the hero has a thousand faces, a unity in diversity. Myth is like a force field; it unfolds and calls forth our own special genius and is the basis of our understanding of our world, ourselves and our own transformation through life’s inevitable trials and tribulations.-Robert Siegel discussing Joseph Campbell on "The Spirit of Things", ABC Radio National, 17 January 1999, 6:05-7:00 pm.
You popularized an attitude, an understanding,
of myth with a remarkable consistency
with that universal myth
that has captured my heart and mind
in this post-war world1.
I have been redesigning, retooling this protean self
and losing myself, giving myself, expanding myself
around this mythic base, this essence, this core,
where a yearning, pathos, has produced a sweetness,
dulce, settling in, an abundance scooped up, an updraft,
scooped up, with a bliss quotient that is inestimable,
indefinable. But there is always the work, the giving,
always more, a doubling of effort, a fatigue, a mystery,
a sadness, a tension, a working out of the myth in my
own life, in its individuality and its collective identity.
Ron Price
17 January 1999
1 Joseph Campbell is the great popularizer of myth in the post-war period, beginning with his first book The Hero With a Thousand Faces(1949). There are many similarities between Campbell and the Baha’i concept of myth, certainly a great deal that has been useful to me.
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