“For myself,” Campbell writes, “I believe that we owe both the imagery and the poetical insights of myth to the genius of the tender-minded; to the tough-minded only their reduction to religion.”
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Joe’s work has had a huge impact on my thinking, along with Mircea Eliade, especially his magnum opus, his four-volume “Masks of God.” The last volume, “Creative Mythology,” removes myth from the realm of religion and again places it in the world of the Arts - literary, visual, performing and others forms. He ends by charging us moderns with creating our own mythologies that help explain and illustrate our own individual and collective experiences.
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Same here! The Masks of God, and especially volume 4. A central influence in my life.
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