…sanskrit and just became fascinated, that's all and later then, long years later after I had been teaching and writing, I met Heinrich Zimmer, who was a major indologist, and at the time of his death his widow asked me to edit his American lectures and…

…and then suddenly a lot of arrows come in on him and he's got the shield and then a lot of bolts. When Heinrich Zimmer was interpreting this, he gave it the interpretation that stays in my mind. He says this is a symbol of the feminine temperament…

…his nostril and there's just a little trickle of air coming in and out. So he's alive while the girls rescue him and as Zimmer says, if you can survive the ordeal of the perilous bed, the glory of womanhood comes to you in all kinds of wonderful ways,…

…working through many, many stories and I can tell you that it really works. When I was doing some of the papers left by Heinrich Zimmer when he died, those that I put together in a little book called the King and the corpse in which there is that…

…of the waking moments, pointing out the difference you know, between the great oriental teacher and the great western teacher. Here was Zimmer as a teacher of your own imaginative powers, and don't be afraid to let them roam perhaps you'll come out with…

…by the Tibetan book of the dead. I know also that he was personally a friend and a very close friend, of both Heinrich Zimmer, who was the great indologist, and Richard Wilhelm, who was the great sinologist, and he took a great deal from them his whole…

…floor on wheels and every time the knight approaches with armor and shield and big heavy gear, the bed jumps away and Zimmer, Heinrich Zimmer talking, about this adventure says this bed is like a reluctant bride putting up a terrific fight and he says…

…on wheels and every time the knight approaches with armor and shield and big heavy gear, the bed jumps away and Zimmer, Heinrich Zimmer talking, about this adventure says this bed is like a reluctant bride putting up a terrific fight and he says the…

…individual's own path. Campbell also offers us an intimate look at his relationship with famed psychologist Carl Jung and Heinrich Zimmer who also exerted a tremendous influence on him, and we'll hear his thoughts on humanity's modern relationship with the…

…but he has opened me up to prospects and vistas that are his work. Now there's one other thing in my life came Heinrich Zimmer, who was a great indologist and a genius with respect to the interpretation of symbols and he is in my mind, supplementary to…

…In fact Jung edited Zimmer's German Posthumous as I edited Zimmer's English so when I met Jung we were you know co editors of Zimmer. It was kind of nice, and so those two men are the ones that talk to me. You had personal interaction with Carl Jung.…

…words very often in my interpretation of myths but it gives me the background from which to let the myth talk to myself. But Zimmer I think was my final guru you might say the one that really gave me the courage to interpret myths out of what I…

…might say instead of just gluing your self to what someone else found. You brought up my next subject by mentioning Henrik Zimmer as one of your gurus, that is the emergence of other cultural traditions, other forms into our own culture, namely this one…

…sanskrit and just became fascinated that's all. And later then, long years later after I had been teaching and writing, I met Heinrich Zimmer, who was a major indologist, and at the time of his death his widow asked me to edit his American lectures and…

…he has opened me up to prospects and vistas that are of his work. Now there's one other thing in my life came Heinrich Zimmer, who was a great indologist and a genius with respect to the interpretation of symbols, and he is in my mind, supplementary to…

…life. In fact Jung edited Zimmer's German Posthumous, as I edited Zimmer's English. So when I met Jung we were you know co editors. Zimmer was kind of nice, and so those two men are the ones that talk to me. Yeah, what was he? You had personal…

…words very often in my interpretation of myths but it gives me the background from which to let the myth talk to myself. But Zimmer I think was my final guru you might say the one that really gave me the courage to interpret myths out of what I…

…you might say instead of just gluing yourself to what someone else found. You brought up my next subject by mentioning Henry Zimmer as one of your gurus and that is the emergence of other cultural traditions, other forms into our own culture, namely this…

…too because all that stuff got way inside me and I was working at the same time on editing the posthume of Heinrich Zimmer, so I was pretty deeply into India at that time. It was an interesting, interesting combination, I think of Ramakrishna's Chief…

…vehicle of self discovery. Now he had two very good friends who came along in the course of the years, one Heinrich Zimmer, a great indologist, the other Richard Wilhelm, a great sinologist, two men of great knowledge of the mythic lore of India…

…Great man he speaks of myth as the penultimate truth and my wonderful friend whom I regard now as my ultimate teacher Heinrich Zimmer, great great endologist I spent 12 years editing his posthumous we're inside he used to say that the best things can't…

…nose he asks: it's moving he's alive and they nurse him back to life. I had a very great friend some years ago named Heinrich Zimmer, and he was telling this story one day and he said: now what does an adventure like that really mean? What's the sense…

…they nurse him back and the castle is disenchanted or whatever it happens to be. Lancelot went through this. My great friend Heinrich Zimmer talking about these materials one time asked what's the meaning of a trial of this kind. This is what you must do…

…Asia. It's a big two volume thing one whole volume of pictures. It's based on some of the work of this same man, Heinrich Zimmer, and I had illustrated the whole darn thing, except for about four pictures. Back there in those days in the 40s early 40s…

…of movement and not move. You see what I mean? That's, that's the important thing. Now years ago I had a wonderful friend Heinrich Zimmer, and he was a really gifted interpreter of symbolic forms and he was lecturing here in New York on Buddhism and he…

…say of the metaphor, understanding how to read what most people take to be prose poetically, my late friend long ago, Heinrich Zimmer, a marvelous interpreter of mythic forms it's from him that I learned what I've learned used to say: the best things…

…they nurse him back and the castle is disenchanted, or whatever it happens to be. Lancelot went through this. My great friend Heinrich Zimmer talking about these materials one time, asked what's the meaning of a trial of this kind. This is what you must…

…reference is to something that transcends all thinking. The ultimate mystery of being is beyond all categories of thought. My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say: the best things can't be told because they transcend thought. The second best are…

…dualistic terms again, the transcendent is transcendent. It transcends all thinking, and so we can't think about it, and my friend Heinrich Zimmer used to say: the best things can't be said. This is why the second best are misunderstood. That's because the…

…field of movement and not move. You see what I mean. That's the important thing. Now years ago I had a wonderful friend Heinrich Zimmer, and he was a really gifted interpreter of symbolic forms and he was lecturing here in New York on Buddhism and he…