Hey Rasheed,
Campbell has been one my favorites for years, his name comes up in these
discussions every so often.... if you liked "Power of Myth" I would highly
recommend "The Hero of 1000 Faces" which is generally considered to be
Campbell's "masterpiece"... also "Myths to Live By" has a slightly
humanistic twist to it.... You can't go wrong with Joe Campbell....
rick
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Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:25 AM
Subject: MD Joseph Campbell
> Anyone into that cat? i just finished one of his books that my teacher
gave
> me as a graduation gift: 'The Power of Myth.' his thought is often
> reminiscent of Pirsig's- at one point he discusses the difference between
> being and becoming, sQ and DQ no doubt. The only difference there is that
he
> believes being is higher than becoming:
>
> 'Let's say you are going to become fully human. In the first few years
you
> are a child, and that is only a fraction of the human being. In a few
more
> years you are in adolescence, and that is certainly a fraction of the
human
> being. In maturity, you are still fractional- you are not a child, but
you
> are not old yet. There is an image in the Upanishads of the original,
> concentrated energy which was the big bang of creation that set forth the
> world, consigning all things to the fragmentation of time. but to see
> through the fragments of time to the full power of original being- that is
a
> function of art.'
>
> Being, i think, he connotes with the monk meditating, who is done
becoming,
> done changing, fully content with where and who he is. the only thing is
> that not anyone can simply stop becoming, they would stagnate and waste
away.
> i think that once one has progressed thru life long enough to gain a true
> understanding of it, then it's time for them to simply be. But 99.9% of
all
> people never acheive that. I could ramble much longer about my equivocal
> understanding of the book, but id rather wait till i can hear what other
> people think.
>
> rasheed
> unscrew the locks from the doors! unscrew the doors themselves from their
> jambs!
> ---- Allen
> Ginsberg
>
>
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