Joseph Campbell 1904 - 1987
This report is from a PBS interview with Bill Moyers broadcast in 1988 (the year after Campbell died).
The interview covered...
- The purpose of myths
- When they started
- Common themes
- Relationships to psychology, religion and the hero's journey
It included asides about...
- Caves and cathedrals
- Sacred trees (Buddha's Bo tree and Christ's cross)
- Dragons of the east and the west
- Hinduism
In the interview Campbell observed that God is beyond good and evil and in some of his/her aspects can be quite horrific.
1 comment:
Very interesting! However, I am moved to make a small correction: In what you call as Hinduism, the underlying eternal energy/pure conciousness is not Brahma but the Parabrahman/Brahman...also called Paramatma or eternal soul. The entity or godhead referred to as Brahma is part of the trinity. Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu is the Sustainer, and Siva is the Destroyer. This holy trinity is what keeps the Universe going...and all three have avataras...only Vishnu, in his capacity as the Sustainer must do more than most so his avataras are well-known.
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