Jeremy Bent

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  • The Myths Just Keep On Coming

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    More great stuff from The Power of Myth: Campbell: There are some teachers who decide they won’t teach at all because of what society will do with what they’ve found. Moyers: What if the hero returns from his ordeal, and the world doesn’t want what he brings back? Campbell: That, of course, is a normal…

  • Power of Myth

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    I’m reading Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, and it is blowing my mind. So much basic, simple stuff that feels so relevant. All these primitive cultures sharing the same stories despite being geographically isolated from each other because they’re trying to describe the same realities in their day to day existence.…