…on the TV, that that won't be just something empty that will be really something you'll work for because I think you can hear Joe for hours and hours and hours and hours and there's still much richness coming out, and so I hope you work for it. We're…

…out, and so I hope you work for it. We're hearing from lovely people. Thank you very much, bernadine. You know it. Thank you Joe, There's such depth and experience from this man and I've known it for years and it keeps on growing, and so don't miss…

…for the last couple of hours and we hope that you have enjoyed this. We really have enjoyed having you on the program Joe well it's been a privilege and a delight to me the whole evening. Thank you very much. Good, hopefully you'll be back soon.…

…well it's been a privilege and a delight to me the whole evening. Thank you very much. Good, hopefully you'll be back soon. My pleasure we're going to firm you up on the air with a date for the next time you're in town. All right, Joe, cheers, cheers.

…same person, that's the total thing. I ran into a woman the next day in the museum who'd been there and she said oh Joe, that bird shit. Thing was marvelous. The laughing went on for about 50 minutes because it took people time to get it. You know,…

…put the pictures out I put them on the table and I sat down and started going through them. She came in and she said: Joe Don't you think it's kind of hot? Wouldn't you like a little lemonade? I said okay, so she brings the lemonade in and we talk…

…for an hour and a half or something like that and then she goes out and before I was back in the thing again I said: Joe It's dinner time, so all right. And we went out to dinner and came back and now it's pretty well into the night and she said:…

…time, so all right. And we went out to dinner and came back and now it's pretty well into the night and she said: well Joe It's perfectly all right there's a nice couch over there you can sleep on that and nobody will mind for three days and I just,…

…has been prodigious. When I was a very little boy down here on 98th street and Riverside drive, my uncle came in and said: Joe We're going down it was late in the afternoon we're going down to Riverside drive to see a man fly an aeroplane from Albany…

…and I said: Louisa can I come up and look at the doctor's picture file? There are about three pictures I need. And she says: oh Joe come on up come on up it's just fine. So I go up one blistering hot summer day and walk into this apartment with the…

…and go home. So I start going through the pictures and she comes in and says: I mean after about 15 minutes she says: Joe It's kind of hot, isn't it? Wouldn't you like to have some lemonade or something like that. I said okay so we have lemonade…

…so forth, and finally we finish that and I go back to the pictures I've hardly gone into them. When she comes in she says: Joe I think it's about dinner time isn't it okay? So we have dinner and then come out again. Of course the dinner lasted down…

…and then come out again. Of course the dinner lasted down into the evening and she said: it'll be perfectly all right Joe he said you can sleep on that couch, nobody minds perfectly okay. Three days the superintendent thought we were having an affair…

…of sri Ramakrishna, and he then became a Hindu Monk. And then one day the phone rang and it was my friend and he said: Joe I want to talk to you I've been reading Chesterton and somehow my Hinduism Doesn't sit well with me and I thought he's now…

…across that I would still be riding star horse today. There's a wonderful life force that comes through a wit and charm when Joe speaks that, as wonderful as the books are, don't capture the man. Campbell now lives in Hawaii with his wife jean erdman.…

…historical and social circumstances and needs and particular local ethic system, but it's one mythology. I got a phone from my friend. He said: Joe is that you? So I'm just as interested in a book on mythology. And if you get up on your high horse and…

…Joseph Campbell explored the mythic themes in Tomas Mann's Early stories and in his novel the magic mountain. In this program Joe will look at Mann's Four novel series: Joseph and his brothers. Looking at this modernist retelling of a Biblical Tale brings…

…them into play. Some of these energies have been repressed and are consequently frightening for you. In the preceding program, Joe told the story of Thomas Mann speaking at Sigmund Freud's 80th birthday party Mann said that Freud's great achievement was…

…the millennia. Mythos is what Joseph Campbell called the one great story of humankind. In the hero with a thousand faces, Joe said that myth was the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.…

…happily sold him a stack of books on themes ranging from modern psychology to eastern religion to the romantic philosophers. As Joe would later say, that changed my career. When looking at the myth making power of art, Campbell would frequently point to…

…United States. Yet the powerful art and ideas to which he had been exposed continued to inform and enrich those years. Eventually, Joe returned, teaching first at his old prep school and then at Sarah Lawrence College, where he would remain for nearly 40…

…world where people embraced as their highest ideal the fundamental rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In this talk Joe continues his examination of the modern west's mythic tradition by looking at the ideas of a group of 18th and 19th…

…concrete chunks. So our idea of a thing is in fact only a subset of the thing itself, the ding on sich, as Joe shows us Kant's Successors came to realize that the great teachers of the east had grappled with this problem millennia earlier, a group…

…day not only to new generations of thinkers, but to some of the greatest artists of the past century. In the next program Joe will explore how these ideas would influence the myth making work of authors such as t Eliot S, James Joyce and in particular,…

…That boon could be a treasure of any kind, from wealth to a magical weapon to a spiritual revelation. In this program Joe explores the crowning example of a boon quest: the arthurian tales of the journey for the holy grail, which symbolize nothing less…

…quest centered around a number of different knights, many of them featured the noble fool sir Percival. The legend that Joe will be exploring is one of the masterpieces of Medieval Literature: wilfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal Creighton's Grail story. What's…

…and the age of reason, giving us the culture that has shaped so much of our world today. In the next program, Joe will explore the new influence on the west's mythos, the first attempts to integrate the teachings of the great philosophies of Asia…

…on the west's mythos, the first attempts to integrate the teachings of the great philosophies of Asia into the European Tradition. In the next program Joe will explore the new influence on the west's mythos: the teachings of the great philosophies of Asia.

…millennia and around the globe. Why do so many stories and images recur from culture to culture across gaps in time and space? Joe believed that this was because they sprang from a set of constants in the human beings who created them, what Carl Jung…

…in western culture. And where the emphasis in the previous programs has been on the evolution of the human species and cultures, now Joe will focus on the artists, writers and thinkers who have had such a huge impact on the culture of the west. He…

…a d that this concept appeared suddenly not only in Europe but in Islam, in India and in the courts of East Asia. To quote Joe for one brief shining moment. In every castle of the world from the English channel to the Persian Gulf and to the sea of…

…custom, the family arranging the marriage. The aristocracy of Europe regarded this as intolerable and you have the whole theme of love. Joe has shown us how the stories of Arthur, his knights and their ladies began to define the modern western idea of…

…and educate the American people in the fine arts. It seems appropriate, then that this be our backdrop as we explore with Joe the art, literature and philosophy that have made western culture what it is. Until next time, this is Susan Sarandon. ¶¶, ¶¶,…

…be this if there weren't that. The meaning is essentially wordless. Yes, well words are always qualifications and limitations, and yet, Joe all we puny human beings are left with is this miserable language, beautiful though it is that falls short of trying…

…love and heal the hurt by the love that hurt. That's something like that that's the paradox of the job. What did you mean, Joe when you said that the triumph of Tristan's view of love and vision of love this beginning of romantic love in the west, was…

…translation of the world into a mother image. We talk of mother earth and so forth. But what happened along the way, Joe to this reverence that in primitive societies was directed toward the goddess figure the great goddess the mother earth what happened…

…beyond names and forms, beyond namarupam beyond names and forms. No tongue has soiled it, no word has reached it. But Joe can Westerners grasp this kind of mystical transtheological experience? It does transcend theology, it leaves theology behind. I mean if…

…illumination, from our animal instincts to the experience of god. In this, the final program on eastern philosophy and religion, Joe turns his attention to tibet. As you may recall, by translating our experience of life into a spiritual exercise. Kundalini…

…spiritual exercise. It starts at the point of illumination and follows the path of the kundalini downward. Before starting this inward journey, Joe takes us back to the place and time when Buddhism was carried beyond the borders of India. ♪♪ I want to…

…to our modern way of seeing the world but remember, this guide for the dying also has significance for the living and Joe might add, Tibetan or otherwise. Now we're going to descend one step to the realm of the knowledge holding deities. They're having…

…Each of us. And here's the final one: the buddha, immovable, teaching the world. That's it we've come to the end of Joe Campbell's tour of the eastern way. Usually at this point the host would sum it up, make some concluding statement which puts…

…puts it all in a nice neat package. But there is no summing up Joe Campbell and no neat package for these ideas. As Joe would say, they are to be experienced, not explained. I hope these programs have been a rewarding experience for you. Www mooji org.

…practice aimed at achieving ever higher levels of consciousness by meditation. In fact in all these programs on Hinduism and Buddhism Joe has emphasized consciousness ♪♪. The word kundalini is from a word kunda that means coiled up something coiled up and…

…religious life, in the field of the spiritual birth until we have come up to chakra four. What is the difference between what Joe calls popular religion and religion which spiritually engages us? For Joe the answer to this question is not to be found in…

…have come up to chakra four. What is the difference between what Joe calls popular religion and religion which spiritually engages us? For Joe the answer to this question is not to be found in the religion itself but in us, in how we experience religion.…

…church, participate in the rituals, make pilgrimages, do all these things so they become part of your life. Then according to Joe, comes the next step: recognizing these symbols for what they are, a reference to the mystery within us. Religion then becomes…

…our trip up the chakra system we have been operating in the realm of popular religion, the first three chakras. To enter what Joe calls the field of properly religious life, we must move up to level four, the level of transformation. This is chakra four…

…the buddha idea were equivalent mythological symbols. The gods are projections of powers within us, not somewhere out there. One day when Joe was on his way to lunch in Midtown Manhattan, he was stopped on the street by a man handing out religious…

…do you believe in god? Stepping back to consider his questioner, Campbell responded: I don't think you have time for my answer for Joe to reduce the idea of god to a question of belief is to miss the point. The single god of judeo Christian Tradition…

…Tradition or the many gods of Hinduism are personifications of what he calls transcendent energy consciousness. In this program, Joe uses the spiritual discipline of yoga to explain what this transcendent energy consciousness is. He begins with the popular…

…exactly is the revelation? What is the eternal that shiva speaks of? He is speaking of the transcendent energy consciousness that Joe talks about. There are different ways to define it all difficult and all just approximations because, as Joe says, these…

…energy consciousness that Joe talks about. There are different ways to define it all difficult and all just approximations because, as Joe says, these ideas are beyond words. But to begin to understand them we must take our own ideas of consciousness and…

…As he spoke, there seemed to be a blurring of the distinction between these two religions. What is the difference between them? Joe explains it this way: Hinduism is related to Buddhism as Judaism is related to Christianity. One is born a jew while one…

…I believe in god the father almighty. The Buddhist says I take refuge in the buddha the law and the order. Joe identifies Hinduism as an ethnic religion and Buddhism as the first world religion, with Christianity Second. Like Christianity, Buddhism was…

…cutting yourself off from your secular commitments in order to engage in meditation. And here are the souls in heavens and so forth. Joe says that the life of the buddha, the lives of all saviors are not to be taken literally. The important thing is the…

…our spiritual lives when we awaken to the idea that god is a projection of the energy within us, not something out there. As Joe points out, once awakened to our spiritual lives we still must live in this world. Not all of us want to devote our lives…

…buddha's joyful participation in the sorrows of the world is reflected in Christ's Intentional participation in the crucifixion. It's obvious to Joe the difference between Christianity and Buddhism is not so much in the story but in how we see ourselves. In…

…taken birth, the virgin birth of the recognition of the spiritual life which is his true life, and so do gurus. Just when Joe has taken us to the extremes of eastern philosophy and religion, he makes the connection back to our own tradition. The fire of…

…and the mysteries are indeed mysterious. But certain themes emerge and we begin to recognize echoes of our own religious experiences. Joe does not judge these myths right or wrong but rather effective or ineffective. Do they provide us with an experience of…

…and with them the mystical interpretation of Christianity. This interpretation would remain closed to the west until the Renaissance. Joe demonstrates the power of symbols when read mystically by connecting the imagery of the Greek Pagan world to that…

…next set of programs in the mythos series, Joe Campbell turns east to India and the orient. He explores how these Universal Themes take distinct and Joe argues more sophisticated form in the symbolic language of Hinduism and Buddhism. See you next time.

…to be no quicker way to dismiss something as unimportant than to label it history or worse still, ancient history. Yet with Joe, Ancient history isn't simply something that happened to someone else a long time ago. It is something that happened to us as…

…primarily judeo Christian, which seems far removed from osiris in the Egyptian book of the dead but it is to Egypt, in fact that Joe turns to find our judeo Christian roots. It was out of Egypt that moses led the chosen people. In this final portion of…

…judeo Christian roots. It was out of Egypt that moses led the chosen people. In this final portion of the program, Joe discusses the exodus and the. What fundamental principle in the Jewish story accounts for its vitality? How was Christianity's Goal of…

…it is, although plain speaking about the nature of men and women about their differences is almost certain to offend somebody. Joe seemed to relish the contention and not without reason. Joe Campbell was a teacher, not a preacher. He wanted people to…

…the long body. Campbell challenges us to ask ourselves difficult questions: are you the vehicle of consciousness or are you the consciousness? Joe was once asked what does that have to do with anything? By a man who said that his life was perfectly happy…

…of these things ever. After all a dog has a perfectly happy life without thinking about anything. It is, however, a dog's life. Perhaps Joe was a bit tough on this guy but he would say to those interested in a human life that an understanding of his…

…and Jung, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, these are big ideas. Many of us have a surface knowledge of these individuals, yet with Joe we can begin to appreciate the themes common to their work and to the human condition. But these men represent the west.…

…had a mystical experience so I'm not a mystic I'm a scholar and that's all I remember. When Alan Watts one time asked me: Joe what yoga do you practice, I say I underline sentences and that's all I'm doing. I'm no guru or anything of the kind I'm…