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Do I have to follow my bliss?
Reading Joseph Campbell's books is an invitation to new and more expansive thought. His research is invaluable since he lived it as well as putting words to paper. If you just want to read the words on the surface you will learn a lot but if you step back so that you can see the whole picture the chance to see things from a broader perspective will help you learn so much more.
He didn't become Professor Emeritus of St. Mary's just from his "research"... Show some respect.
I personally discovered this book decades after I had experienced traveling randomly through Europe and North Africa, also the Camino de Compostela...I had kept journals in those journeys and I was amazed by the connection of the incidents that happened to me with respect to the "pattern spotting" as stated above ( and if understand well)...the sequence on the hero's journey, the meeting with mentors, enemies, friends, tokens given to the traveler to continue the road, joy and sorrows, inside the belly in the whale...all those points were clearly outlined in my diaries..which came to teach me that this Book by campbell is a guide line of the sort..some cosmic guideline...
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Reading Joseph Campbell's books is an invitation to new and more expansive thought. His research is invaluable since he lived it as well as putting words to paper. If you just want to read the words on the surface you will learn a lot but if you step back so that you can see the whole picture the chance to see things from a broader perspective will help you learn so much more.
He didn't become Professor Emeritus of St. Mary's just from his "research"... Show some respect.
I personally discovered this book decades after I had experienced traveling randomly through Europe and North Africa, also the Camino de Compostela...I had kept journals in those journeys and I was amazed by the connection of the incidents that happened to me with respect to the "pattern spotting" as stated above ( and if understand well)...the sequence on the hero's journey, the meeting with mentors, enemies, friends, tokens given to the traveler to continue the road, joy and sorrows, inside the belly in the whale...all those points were clearly outlined in my diaries..which came to teach me that this Book by campbell is a guide line of the sort..some cosmic guideline...
