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#JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology A mythologically grounded culture presents you with symbols that immediately evoke your participation; they are all vital, living connections, and so they link you both to the underlying mystery and to the culture itself. Yet when that culture uses symbols that are no longer alive, that are no longer effective, it cuts . . . → Read More: The Way to Find Your Own Myth #JosephCampbell #quote #Freud Primitive societies insist on the mythological attitude, as the Oriental societies. These cultures encourage the child to interpret the world in terms of the mythological patterns. Those years of adolescence are the critical years, and there the years that in traditional Oriental societies do not produce the little scientific mind, the mind . . . → Read More: Indigenous Cultures Interpret the World in Terms of the Mythological Patterns For it is the rite, the ritual and its imagery, that counts in religion, and where that is missing the words are mere carriers of concepts that may or may not make contemporary sense. A ritual is an organization of mythological symbols; and by participating in the drama of the rite one is brought directly . . . → Read More: Ritual as organization of mythological symbols “I find an illuminating analogy to our present religious situation in that of the North American Indian tribes, when, toward the close of the nineteenth century, in the 1870′s and 1880s, the buffalo were disappering. . . And it was subsequently to these (for them devastating) developments that a new religion of inward visionary experiences . . . → Read More: An illuminating analogy to our present religious situation “The characteristic effect of mythic themes and motifs translated into ritual, consequently, is that they link the individual to transindividual purposes and forces.” (MLB 57) |
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