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.
…tell you how to be a human being it does not give you the rich information that comes through reading the classics. You know Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare Oh what do we want with that? You know what's the relevance, you know the term, and all this came in…
…the metal equivalent of the solar power. The sphere is the sphere of the perfect form. All you have to do is read your Plato and you get that. So this is her own immortal perfection. She's tossing her soul around so to say, and one miraculous day it…
…about them 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…
…we're approaching the theme of the archetypes of Jung. I want to draw a picture of the soul as Jung would describe it, following Plato. The soul is a circle so let's draw a circle now. Every circle has a center, so let's put a center there. However as…
…may pull us away from that, you know and it's through these that one can as it were find one's direct center line again Plato, I think and that is reintroduce him to those constant forms which at birth we lose track of because of the distractions of…
…pull us away from that, you know and it's through these that one can as it were, find one's direct center line. Again, Plato I think it's in the symposium probably, or rather the Timaeus Actually I recall now he says that there's only one thing that…
…about that there's no geologist who stands for it. You know, the atlantis legend which occurs in the Timaeus and Critias of Plato, has now been more or less and I think rather convincingly associated with that wonderful island in the Aegean, Tira or…
…and we don't have to hypothesize an island in the Atlantic. When the atlantis legend was translated then into modern thinking out of Plato, it still was thought this was in the early 19th century that the mayan period was close in time to the Egyptian…
…it's the metal equivalent of the solar power. The sphere is the sphere of the perfect form all you have to do is read your Plato and you get that. So this is her own immortal perfection. She's tossing her soul around so to say. Now it so happened one…
…not only hermaphrodite, the child of Hermes and aphrodite, but eros too, the divinity of love, the first of the gods according to Plato, were insects, both female and male. The bisexual god is the mystery of the theme of initiation we are taken from the…
…canal and his eyes open to the surfaces of things, and he has been through the whole inward mystery and has forgotten it and Plato in the Timaeus says: the only thing one can do for another is reintroduce him to those forms of the spirit the memory of…
…other thing, the picket lines over here and this, that and the other kind, you are in touch with eternal concerns. You're reading Plato and aristotle and so forth and so on. Hermetic pedagogy Hermes is the god who guides people into the realm of death…
…horizon, the horizon is in a circle. When the eagle builds a Nest, the Nest is in a circle. And then you read in Plato Somewhere: the soul is a circle. I suppose the circle represents a totality within the circle is one thing it is encircled, it's…
…canal and his eyes open to the surfaces of things. And he has been through the whole inward mystery and has forgotten it. And Plato in the Timaeus says: the only thing one can do for another is reintroduce. Him to those forms of the spirit the memory…
…these psychological ground archetypes. So to begin with we start with this simple circle here. This is a picture of the soul, the psyche. Plato says the soul is a circle. So here we have it now every circle has a center, and that is indicated by the…