If your bliss is just your fun and your excitement, you’re on the wrong track. I think the best thing I can say is to follow your bliss. What's made up in the head is the fiction. The conflict is between the science of 2000 B.C. Religion has to accept the science of the day and penetrate it to the mystery. I don't see any conflict between religion and science. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. When I hear how much my work has meant to them––well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. And the dynamic of life is now this form eats that form. The main theme is to yield your position to the dynamic. And the hero is the one who knows when to surrender and what to surrender to. For instance, I am moving toward death, as we all are. One part of the hero's journey is acquiescence. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. So we've lost the whole sense of accord with nature. One of the problems in our tradition is that the land –- the Holy Land - is somewhere else. The world in which the primitive people are living become s mythologized. One of the biggest problems in mythology is this one of putting the individual in accord with nature. An individual has to find what electrifies and enlivens his own heart, and wakes him. Find what electrifies and enlivens your heart. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. A mythology is an organization of symbolic narratives and images that are metaphorical of the possibilities of human experience and fulfillment in a given society at a given time. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you’ve never even thought of. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The ego is you as you think of yourself. And it renders them in new ways, that’s all. Whenever the human imagination gets going, it has to work in the fields that myths have already covered. And so I thought, Well, we’re getting back to the old days in a very funny way. In Tibetan Buddhism these are called docheles-fire women from outer space! And in their spiritual powers they can excite you a little bit. In one of those cock-eyed theaters that are in New York, on 42nd and Broadway, I saw advertised Fire Women from Outer Space.
An artist is not in the field to achieve, to realize, but to become fulfilled. No longer do you have different cultures within their bounded horizons, ignorant of each other and indifferent to each other. That is to say, it’s now once more a globe. And I do think we’re at the beginning of a global age. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.I do think we are at the end of a civilization. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. Una obra maestra de quien ha sido considerado el mitógrafo más importante de los tiempos modernos.
Con su característico ingenio e intuición, Campbell ilustra la relación existente entre los antiguos símbolos y el arte moderno, o entre la esquizofrenia y el viaje del héroe (en el sentido junguiano), poniendo de relieve el modo en que el mito nos ayuda a identificar nuestro propio viaje. En este sentido, los mitos se tornan en genuinos caminos a la felicidad. En este libro, Campbell hace gala de su extraordinaria pericia como contador de historias para sumergirnos en las mitologías del mundo y destapar su poderosa capacidad de incidir en nuestra transformación y desarrollo personal. En su opinión, una de las funciones básicas del mito (en especial de su dimensión psicológica) consiste en ayudar al individuo a llevar a cabo su viaje vital, proporcionándole una guía para alcanzar la plenitud, un mapa para descubrir la «felicidad». Joseph Campbell ha sido uno de los grandes divulgadores de la sabiduría profunda que atesoran los mitos.
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