MOYERS: Scientists are beginning to talk quite openly about the Gaia principle. CAMPBELL: There you are, the whole planet as an organism. MOYERS: Mother Earth. Will new myths come from this image? CAMPBELL: Well, something might. You can’t predict what a myth is going to be any more than you can predict what you’re going to dream tonight. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that have then to find expression in symbolic form. And the only myth that is going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one that is talking about the planet,
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