Baksheesh and Brahman Quotes

“Jung’s image of the stage of becoming a tree is well illustrated here. The little man is stuck. In the West he would be taken away, perhaps, to an institution and cured back (shock treatment, etc.) to society. Here, he is permitted to sit it out and perhaps go through to Buddhahood—perhaps, on the other hand, simply to remain stuck, as a living symbol of spiritual effort. There are no hospitals, there are no asylums. The lepers sit out on the streets and so do the madmen. But some of the madmen can break through, and these breakthroughs are giving India something that the West really lacks.”
― Joseph Campbell, Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals-India

“I have a strong feeling that the U.S.A. has lost the world, will be used by everybody as a ‘fall guy’, and is the Dragon to be tricked and plundered: old Fafnir with his gold-horde and grandfatherly willingness to be of help to his own destroyer. My sympathy, this time, is with the Dragon.”
― Joseph Campbell, Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals-India