Joseph Campbell
He's still out there. Dead to life but more alive than ever. I'm reading his book The Power of Myth and it might as well be titled How to Understand Everything. I needed to get this particular part down just to keep it straight in my head 'cause I keep trying to recall it throughout the day and it gets jumbled:
He's asked "Why is myth different from a dream?"
"Oh, because a dream is a personal experience of that deep, dark ground that is the support of our conscious lives, and a myth is the society's dream. The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got an adventure in the dark forest ahead of you."
I was somehow suprised I couldn't find a picture of him done by Dave McKean.
He's asked "Why is myth different from a dream?"
"Oh, because a dream is a personal experience of that deep, dark ground that is the support of our conscious lives, and a myth is the society's dream. The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got an adventure in the dark forest ahead of you."
I was somehow suprised I couldn't find a picture of him done by Dave McKean.
posted by Matthew Pazzol at 9:04 AM
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