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.
…they just come rippling running out and I'll be speaking of him a little later perhaps in some of his other romances the Lancelot and the yvain is far more successful than in the Percival. It was Wolfram Von Eschenbach who picked up the theme and…
…suggested, that the grail was brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea you all know the story of the begetting of galahad by Lancelot on the grail keeper's daughter, and so he is brought up really under the shadow of the grail, and this is a wonderful…
…he stops and asks: how did you come to this? Francesca very politely answers, tells him how they were reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere and at a certain moment in the story looked at each other and read no more in the book that day…
…and carried off to. It's the whole history of Arthur. You see there the germ of what comes up later in the Lancelot story with Mordred. Only Lancelot is an honorable man and simply caught in this invincible passion, which Arthur recognizes as something…
…the whole history of Arthur. You see there the germ of what comes up later in the Lancelot story with Mordred. Only Lancelot is an honorable man and simply caught in this invincible passion, which Arthur recognizes as something even more well I'm going…
…is the result coming to heal him at the end. So that's a little review of that story. This is the first kiss of Lancelot and Guinevere and the night who introduced them to each other, the night of the cart. Lancelot riding in the cart, he's going…
…This is the first kiss of Lancelot and Guinevere and the night who introduced them to each other, the night of the cart. Lancelot riding in the cart, he's going across the sword bridge. He's going across the sword bridge now he comes to have her…
…the 12th century. Well what gets abandoned are the women? Are Arthur's Whole court destroyed by Courtney Brown, by Guinevere and by Lancelot? In what of the romances? Well I don't know if the romances those aren't the ones I've been talking about I'll…
…tell you what happened with Tennyson. Tennyson got the point of view that you're rendering, you see, and the love of Lancelot and Guinevere destroyed the court. You don't find these things I'm talking about the 12th century romances, okay so the question…
…moral story I don't know, and anyhow it wasn't a very popular story. But next comes the great one and it's kraitian's best: Lancelot and Guinevere. Now the ladies were a bit unhappy about the Tristan story because all the love was out there in the…
…a martini in the living room so that love should inspire the society you know. So kraitian finds another story, that of Lancelot and Guinevere. Now Lancelot is the nephew, or rather close friend of Arthur, and Guinevere is his lady his beloved. There's a…
…living room so that love should inspire the society you know. So kraitian finds another story, that of Lancelot and Guinevere. Now Lancelot is the nephew, or rather close friend of Arthur, and Guinevere is his lady his beloved. There's a very nice quality…
…a habit of being abducted, and on this particular occasion a King who really has an epic modification of lord death, abducts her. Lancelot is so eager to rescue her that he rides two horses to death. Well when you've ridden two horses to death there's…
…pictures and they're in the book. But it's wonderful what mythology can do to help you through life's trials. The other trial that Lancelot had to Face was that of the sword bridge. Now I don't know whether you know that novel by somerset Maugham, the…
…What they became interested in were the stories of Arthur's Nights. Each night represented a certain might be called spiritual inflection: Lancelot the self giving perfect lover Tristan the overtaken lover. The Eric, the warrior who fell in love and lost his…
…of the knights because of their secular character and there are only two that come through are sir bors and sir galahad. Poor Lancelot came very close to experience at the grail, came to the castle came to a room and there was a priest celebrating the…
…priest he almost fell down because the host then became the body of the young Christ was more than he could hold and Lancelot, Compassionately was moved to go into the room and rescue him and he was struck down because he was unworthy to be present.…
…very far in the middle ages. Nobody picked that one up. Then comes the great story of Gratian, and this is the Lancelot. Here you have the Mordred story translated to Lancelot. Lancelot was Arthur's Greatest knight and he falls in love with Guinevere and…
…one up. Then comes the great story of Gratian, and this is the Lancelot. Here you have the Mordred story translated to Lancelot. Lancelot was Arthur's Greatest knight and he falls in love with Guinevere and he goes through the whole ordeal. He becomes Le…
…up. Then comes the great story of Gratian, and this is the Lancelot. Here you have the Mordred story translated to Lancelot. Lancelot was Arthur's Greatest knight and he falls in love with Guinevere and he goes through the whole ordeal. He becomes Le Fou,…
…And this time she's abducted by the lord of a castle which is equated with the underworld Arthur. Doesn't go to get her back. Lancelot goes and he goes with such speed that he rides two horses to death. Well after you've lost two horses and you don't…
…like that he's breathing, he's alive. So 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…
…each for his lady, wearing her little sleeve and his helmet and so forth. There's a wonderful period where a story of Guinevere with Lancelot as her lover. She wants to show her power and she tells him: go into this jousting as a fool, lose, don't win…
…into this jousting as a fool, lose, don't win get knocked off your horse until I give a certain sign and then let go. So Lancelot the knight always does what this lady wants he goes in and he gets knocked around all right and then I don't know what…
…very far in the middle ages. Nobody picked that one up. Then comes the great story of cretan, and this is the Lancelot. Here you have the Mordred story translated to Lancelot. Lancelot was Arthur's Greatest knight and he falls in love with Guinevere and…
…one up. Then comes the great story of cretan, and this is the Lancelot. Here you have the Mordred story translated to Lancelot. Lancelot was Arthur's Greatest knight and he falls in love with Guinevere and he goes through the whole ordeal. He becomes Le…
…up. Then comes the great story of cretan, and this is the Lancelot. Here you have the Mordred story translated to Lancelot. Lancelot was Arthur's Greatest knight and he falls in love with Guinevere and he goes through the whole ordeal. He becomes Le Fou,…
…and this time she's abducted by the lord of a castle which is equated with the underworld. Arthur Doesn't go to get her back. Lancelot goes and he goes with such speed that he rides two horses to death. Well after you've lost two horses and you don't…
…that he's breathing, he's alive. So 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…
…the sharp edge of a razor? Now that's the motif of the sword bridge one finds it in eskimo mythology. One finds it here. Lancelot is going to go across the sword bridge. Let's ask what it is. It's the path you follow when you follow your own bliss,…
…ask what it is. It's the path you follow when you follow your own bliss, not the rules of society. That's it. Lancelot was following the dynamic of his own personal relationship to Guinevere which was outside the ropes. There are two kinds of mythology.…
…a stream that is a roaring torrent. The danger is being overtaken by passion and swept away. It's a control situation. So Lancelot goes across the sword bridge and that rescues Guinevere. But when he comes into the room where she is and expects her…
…sword bridge and that rescues Guinevere. But when he comes into the room where she is and expects her to say, aha mon Lancelot, She's cool as a cucumber she won't have anything to do with him. Why? Because he hesitated for three steps before getting on…
…cucumber she won't have anything to do with him. Why? Because he hesitated for three steps before getting on the cart. That's the Lancelot. These gals are tough. The next story is a magnificent one: yvain. I'm not going to tell it more than to give the…
…spiritual condition that's different from that of the others. There's a Tristan kind of passion. There's the sophisticated elegance of the Lancelot Situation. Yvain is the warrior. There's no love problem here to begin with, just the warrior. And he of hears…
…of life. So I got the pictures they're in the book and there's a big history behind it. Well the next trial of our friend Lancelot was what is known as the sword bridge. This is a bridge across a roaring town that is of a sword and he has to…
…over and fall into a torrent of passion that sweeps you away. This is a real lesson. So having survived the perilous bed Lancelot survives the sword bridge. And then he has disenchanted the castle in which Guinevere is a captive. He comes in to receive…
…Women know these things and this is that story and it's the great one this is cretan's best. It's a beautiful story the Lancelot. His next story is one that appears also in a Welsh Version known as the lady of the fountain. This is called yvain…
…That's the whole problem of life. It's right there in that story do you get me? That's the problem. Tristan, Erech cleges, Lancelot, Yvain, and then Gratian writes the Percival, which is the grail, Gratian's Grail story. So before I come to the Percival,…
…try to solve it just endure it and then all the boons of beautiful womanhood will be yours. Well the next trial of our friend Lancelot was what is known as the sword bridge. This is a bridge across a roaring torrent that is of a sword, and he has to…
…over and fall into a torrent of passion that sweeps you away. This is a real lesson. So having survived the perilous bed, Lancelot survives the sword bridge and then he has disenchanted the castle in which Guinevere is a captive. He comes in to receive…
…women know these things. And this is that story and it's the great one this is cretan's best. It's a beautiful story, the Lancelot. His next story is one that appears also in a Welsh Version known as the lady of the fountain. This is called yvain…