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Tag Archives: Joseph Campbell

Why Joseph Campbell?

February 3, 2022

  Ok, on numerous occasions I’ve insisted that Joseph Campbell’s four volume series, The Masks Of God, is the most …

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The Decline Of Culture/Character….

February 1, 2022

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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Celebrating Giants Of The Human Spirit!

December 17, 2021

  How long ago now was it that I first cracked the spine of Joseph Campbell’s Creative Mythology? Thirty years? …

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An Attempt At A Poetic Reply….

October 31, 2021

  Response to an email with a link to an article in The Atlantic magazine on a book titled The …

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Rebalancing….

October 13, 2021

“Turning our eyes briefly, now, to the West, where a theology derived largely from the Levant [Christianity] has been grafted …

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‘Don’t Explain… Celebrate!’

September 8, 2021

The silly smile… I fall silent for weeks and then months at a time.    You could say I retreat …

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A Blessedly Quiet Place….

January 10, 2021

  From the very beginning the Omphalos Cafe was conceived as a quiet place, a place away from the tumult …

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“It Is Time For You To Leave, GraceHoper…”

August 28, 2020

  From an email written earlier today:     I seem to regularly wake up in the deep stillness of the …

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To The Mountains….

August 23, 2020

  Joseph Campbell, one of the true Giants of the Human Spirit—and make no mistake, there are no more than …

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A Simple Notion, With Monumental Implications!

April 24, 2020

  From a response to a video:   It’s such a simple notion really.   I think of the North …

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