MOYERS: You say that mythology is the study of mankind’s one great story. What is that one great story? CAMPBELL: That we have come forth from the one ground of being as manifestations in the field of time. The field of time is a kind of shadow play over a timeless ground. And you play the game in the shadow field, you enact your side of the polarity with all your might. But you know that your enemy, for example, is simply the other side of what you would see as yourself if you could see from the position of the middle. MOYERS: So the one great story is our search to find our place in the
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