Angie,
Another page I have created for Campbell's 'Transformations of Myth Through Time' is an excerpt from the book title 'The Perennial Philosophy of the East'. This chapter delves in the 'universal ideas' or folk/ethnic' ideas that are related ro Jung's Archetypes. Here is a piece of that page that illustrates the richness of knowledge Campbell offers from this work.

Myth comes in the same zone as dream, and this is the zone of what I call the Wisdom Body. When you go to sleep, it's the body that's talking. What the body is moved by are energies that it does not control. These are energies that control the body. They come in from the great biological ground. They are there. They are energies and they are manners of consciousness. But we also have in this body this affair of the head, and it has a system of thinking on its own. There's a whole manner of consciousness that stems from the head-set, and it is different in its knowledge from that of the body. When a baby is born, it knows just what to do with its mother's body. It is ready for the environment into which it is put. It doesn't have to be instructed, these things happen. This is the work of the Wisdom Body. That same wisdom brought the little thing onto form in its mother's body. It was shaped by these energies that live in us, and of which we are the carnal manifestation. This wisdom of the dream, wisdom of the vision, is the wisdom then of the perennial philosophy. When you dream, your waking conscious aspect does not understand the dream, and so you have to go to a psychoanalyst, who doesn't understand it either. The interpretation is gradual and it comes from the exploration, by the head, of your won wisdom. And so we find that there is a kind of radical distinction between the perennial philosophy in its mode and axioms, quite different from the axioms and mode of the rational system.

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Fascinating stuff. This book illuminated my psyche perhaps more than any other. Let me say also the book and related audio book and video {hosted by Susan Sarandon} has been remade and renamed. It is now called Mythos. The link i provided offers short videos.

Jerry

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