MOYERS: Don’t you sometimes think, as you consider these stories, that you are drowning in other people’s dreams? CAMPBELL: I don’t listen to other people’s dreams. MOYERS: But all of these myths are other people’s dreams. CAMPBELL: Oh, no, they’re not. They are the world’s dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. I know when I come to one of these thresholds now. The myth tells me about it, how to respond to certain crises of disappointment or delight or failure or success. The myths tell me where I am.
