#thepowerofmyth

[epicforwards]

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

-- Joseph Campbell

[soulawakeningblog]

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

[tracylewisart]

Adding color and listening to Joseph Campbell. (: 🎨💕 #wip #watercolor #josephcampbell #thepowerofmyth

[thebookhavenblog]

Modern Legends and Their Powerful Messages

Quote:“Legends are lessons carved in the soul of humanity.” Legends endure because they resonate deeply with our shared human experiences. They are more than entertaining stories; they are vessels of wisdom, courage, and caution passed down through generations. This quote reminds us that legends—whether born of myth, history, or fiction—carry lessons that shape our understanding of the world and…

Modern Legends and Their Powerful Messages

[nickreads]

That's the reduction of mythology to theology. Mythology is very fluid. Most of the myths are self-contradictory (…) Mythology is poetry, and the poetic language is very flexible.

Religion turns poetry into prose. God is literally up there, and this is literally what he thinks, and this is the way you've got to behave to get into proper relationship with that god up there.

Joseph Campbell | The Power of Myth

[nickreads]

Who interprets the divinity inherent in nature for us today? Who are our shamans? Who interprets unseen things for us?

CAMPBELL: It is the function of the artist to do this. The artist is the one who communicates myth for today. But he has to be an artist who understands mythology and humanity and isn't simply a sociologist with a program for you.

Joseph Campbell | The Power of Myth

[nickreads]

The spirit is really the bouquet of life. It is not something breathed into life, it comes out of life. This is one of the glorious things about the mother-goddess religions, where the world is the body of the Goddess, divine in itself, and divinity isn't something ruling over and above a fallen nature.

Joseph Campbell | The Power of Myth

[nickreads]

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

Joseph Campbell | The Power of Myth