Playing My Magic Flute
*** Sitting here at the kitchen table, cast propped on a chair and tea at my elbow, pondering the interconnectedness …
Category Archives: Joseph Campbell
Blockages
“The period—we must note—was that of the fanatic cutting down of the Old Germanic sacred shrines and groves by the …
Yet He Is Seen By Subtle Seers
“Though he is hidden in all things, That self does not shine forth. Yet he is seen by subtle seers …
A Knight’s Tale…Revisited
I don’t get many hits. When I first launched this humble site I mistakenly thought hits mattered. They don’t. At …
Heralds Of A Future Day
“Who ever anywhere will read these written words? Signs on a white field.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses “Where is …
The Divine Is Everything!
“It is not that the divine is everywhere: it is that the divine is everything.“—Joseph Campbell, Oriental Mythology “As long …
The Language Barrier
“But beyond that [the normal daylight working of the intellect] there is a thinking in primordial images—in symbols that are …
A Foolish Obsession (cont. (again))
“The Roman Catholic Church was an alien institution lying heavily across the soil and the soul of Western European men …
A Foolish Obsession
“As he was browsing the Carmel library one day, his hand moved, as if by itself, he said, to a …
On The Pedestalizing Of Books
“Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of a man to all that is hidden to others.”—Words of the …
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