Campbell, Joseph - Richard A. Underwood (essay date 1990)
Richard A. Underwood (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Underwood, Richard A. “Living by Myth: Joseph Campbell, C. G. Jung, and the Religious Life-Journey.” In Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion, edited by Daniel C. Noel, pp. 13-28. New York: Crossroad, 1990.
[In the following essay, Underwood finds parallels between the approaches of Campbell and C. G. Jung to the de-mystification of religion and the “natural history of religious myth, symbol, and sentiment.”]
CAMPBELL:
… Myths grab you somewhere down inside. As a boy, you go at it one way, as I did reading my Indian stories. Later on, myths tell you more, and more, and still more. I think that anyone who has ever dealt seriously with religious or mythic ideas will tell you that we learn them as a child on one level, but then many different levels are revealed. Myths are infinite in their revelation.
MOYERS:
How do I...
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