c/joseph-campbell
Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…opposite, but with all opposites. Now let's move just a little bit further west and we come to Plato's Symposium and Aristophanes Wonderful myth of the beginnings of things. Now of course in that wonderful Greek world, the whole sexual relationship was one…
…any rate, there was respect for the homosexual relationship. And so we have three kinds of human beings in the beginning, in Aristophanes little legend, three kinds of human beings, all twice as big as human beings are today. There were those that lived…
…and decided to cut them in half and reduce their powers by half. And so they performed these surgical operations and Plato or Aristophanes Describes them rather amusingly when the two had been cut of course there was a big gash there so they pulled it…
…I say the virtue is attributed to god and whenever man does something against him, we come in on god's side. But just read Aristophanes thing you make a clown of the gods they're on man's side and the gods are afraid of man and perhaps they are now…
…psychoanalysis: save the money and go to Japan. Now we come to the third story. This is from the symposium by Aristophanes and that wonderful drunken party, greatest the world has ever seen. They're talking about love, and Aristophanes has this little myth…
…from the symposium by Aristophanes and that wonderful drunken party, greatest the world has ever seen. They're talking about love, and Aristophanes has this little myth of love. The original human beings were as big as two human beings, only the greeks…
…of the time is instead of the dictation of your own eternity, you have capitulated to the devil and you're in hell. Aristophanes is the man who can furnish you the means to do anything you want. He's the machine manufacturer. He can manufacture the…