Great excerpt! I was fascinated by The Power of Myth when it came out. Of all of his books, that one in my bookcase is marked up with yellow highlighter, for the parts that made me think a bit and have an "aha" moment.

I took to heart the "follow your bliss" advice and also enjoying what you feel is heaven here on earth. With so many myths that came before the current ones, it made it acceptable for me to not believe in the bible except as a mythos.

It was also Joseph Campbell's writings that got me to write some things of my own. Someday I hope to share them to help others make some sense of the world.

The excerpt you posted is great for illustrating how each universe is perhaps created from the collapse of a previous one, and that our life is built upon what others have done before us, and what we do here on earth is what those who come after us will build their life upon.

His books were famous and transformative long before Moyers caught on.

Just listened to it all ,Beautiful Myth ,loved the way he explained it,first i have heard this or about him

As an atheist, I love Joseph's Campbell's groundbreaking book, "The Power of Myth."

It's a treasured book I bought in 1988 when it was first published.

He is one of my motivations to become a non-believer.

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