Use Religious Symbols to Turn Inward


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#JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology

In the last third of the 19th century, the buffalo were slaughtered en masse. . . [For the North American Indians] The whole social mythology lost its central image. The rights in the songs and dances–they had no reality anymore. It was all referring back to a time that wasn’t there.

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Re-Finding Your Religion

#JosephCampbell #quotes #Mythology

Now, in my courses in mythology at Sarah Lawrence, I taught people of practically every religious faith you could think of. Some have a harder time mythologizing than others, but all have been brought up in a myth of some kind. What I found is that any mythic tradition can be translated . . . → Read More: Re-Finding Your Religion