Thank you. I feel we have become content with a very low bar for our collective becoming. A bar still rooted in egomyths, whilst our ecological selves hunger for ecomyths yet imagined. Unshackled from what we have come to believe. Yet perhaps like Wilbur says we transcend and include as we grow and so maybe the sacred ground of Joseph Campbell’s myth making continues to nurture the new as vital creative compost 🌻
Beautifully put, Astrid. I wonder though, have we become content, or conditioned, to accept this "low bar of our collective becoming?" I do agree that we don't need to through out Campbell's work. There's a lot of baby still left in that bath water. Thanks for being here!
Yes, brother. Thank you. I'm also sure the 'ands' I'm left with will all be addressed in your following essays, such as gender, as you alluded to, as well as what happens after the Return - middle-age and the proactive move toward Elderhood. The work of Hollis and Chinen come to mind. In that sense, I tend to work with a structure that sounds more like 'Beyond the Hero'.
Thank you. I feel we have become content with a very low bar for our collective becoming. A bar still rooted in egomyths, whilst our ecological selves hunger for ecomyths yet imagined. Unshackled from what we have come to believe. Yet perhaps like Wilbur says we transcend and include as we grow and so maybe the sacred ground of Joseph Campbell’s myth making continues to nurture the new as vital creative compost 🌻
Beautifully put, Astrid. I wonder though, have we become content, or conditioned, to accept this "low bar of our collective becoming?" I do agree that we don't need to through out Campbell's work. There's a lot of baby still left in that bath water. Thanks for being here!
Yes, brother. Thank you. I'm also sure the 'ands' I'm left with will all be addressed in your following essays, such as gender, as you alluded to, as well as what happens after the Return - middle-age and the proactive move toward Elderhood. The work of Hollis and Chinen come to mind. In that sense, I tend to work with a structure that sounds more like 'Beyond the Hero'.
I can’t wait to read the next installation.