Like many another wide-eyed couch potato, I had eagerly awaited each weekly episode of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. Bill Moyers' series of interviews on PBS with the late Professor Campbell, one of the world's reigning experts on mythology, was fascinating stuff, if you're really into fertility cults, purification rites and the like. But the show wasn't all Upanishads and Choctaw legends. Once in a while, with Moyers smirking approval in the background, Campbell would offer some solid, down-to-earth advice. Live mythologically, he would say. It's a means of keeping one's inner spirit attuned to the archetypes and myths...
Essay: The Gods Are Crazy
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