The Priests And The Shaman…
“And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …
Category Archives: Joseph Campbell
Why The Omphalos Cafe?
Honestly I do not even like using the word ‘shaman.’ The word, like many today, has suffered degradation. The …
Time To Open The Cafe Doors Again…
Western Civilization? “As I sit here, I can feel in this man beside me a strong desire to know the …
Mentoring The ‘Deviants,’ The Artists….
“And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …
Life Is On BOTH Ends Of A Gun….
“All these characters, moving around and against one another, share but facets of some prodigious unity and are at …
The Untaught Key to Us All….
“Their holy places are the woods and groves, and they call by the name of God that hidden presence which …
A Failure Of Nerve….
“Professor Gilbert Murray has termed the centuries between the flowering of classical Athens [circa 450 BC] and the growth of …
The Lost Shamanic Way….
Yesterday I was sitting in a coffee shop and the conversation turned as it frequently does these days to …
Why Joseph Campbell?
Ok, on numerous occasions I’ve insisted that Joseph Campbell’s four volume series, The Masks Of God, is the most …
The Decline Of Culture/Character….
Thanks for an excellent question, Jon. Why today’s paucity of genuine ‘literature?’ And it’s one I’ve attempted to tackle in …
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