HELP! HELP! Trying to source a campbell quote in context!
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HELP! HELP! Trying to source a campbell quote in context!
I need some help tracking down a reference in context. I recall and have heard others (Dennis Slattery among them) refer to Campbell as having once posited that "Myth is the mediator between the literal and the mystical." I've been through my library and can't seem to find it. Any help here would be grand. It would be very useful for a work I'm helping a friend with.
Thanks in advance for your time,
Yeil
Thanks in advance for your time,
Yeil
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
I'm sorry, Yeil, I just noticed your post.
I'm going to move your request to The Wisdom Pool forum where you're more likely to garner attention.
Also, is "Myth is the mediator between the literal and the mystical" the actual quote that you're looking for? Thanks!
I'm going to move your request to The Wisdom Pool forum where you're more likely to garner attention.
Also, is "Myth is the mediator between the literal and the mystical" the actual quote that you're looking for? Thanks!
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. --Jung
Thank you very much, any help is greatly appreciated!
I'm really not sure if that's the exact quote, I've only heard it referenced by others. And it sounds familiar, but I don't know if that's just because I've it heard it so often or because I've read it in Campbell's works. That and it certainly seems like something he'd say. lol
Thanks again!
I'm really not sure if that's the exact quote, I've only heard it referenced by others. And it sounds familiar, but I don't know if that's just because I've it heard it so often or because I've read it in Campbell's works. That and it certainly seems like something he'd say. lol
Thanks again!
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Well, this much I do know, Yeil--that sentence is not the actual quote. So saith the all-knowing Google Search gods. Same for The Power of Myth, the only book I scanned, so no need to look there.
As you said, initially I wondered, too, if you might be paraphrasing notions that are common knowledge for us folks who read Campbell. I'll check with Clemsy to see if he's aware of a source that may present this information in a similar way.
And if we're really lucky, Myrtle will stop by. She can locate darn-near anything, it seems, if it exists.
As you said, initially I wondered, too, if you might be paraphrasing notions that are common knowledge for us folks who read Campbell. I'll check with Clemsy to see if he's aware of a source that may present this information in a similar way.
And if we're really lucky, Myrtle will stop by. She can locate darn-near anything, it seems, if it exists.
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. --Jung
Huzzah! I really appreciate this! Even if I can cite some material that expresses that notion directly, if not literally, it will help a great deal!
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Hey, Yeil.
Clemsy mistakenly posted this reply in another thread, so I've copied it for you here.
Clemsy mistakenly posted this reply in another thread, so I've copied it for you here.
Clemsy wrote:Hi. . . I just heard back from Stephen Gerringer, the Director of JCF Community, and here's what he saus:
I would tend to agree. If it had been in print, it would have found its way to being a known quote, especially to those intimately familiar with that body of work. The audio lectures, however, are mostly untranscribed at this time, so who knows?If Campbell said this, it's probably in one of the audio lectures, or possibly Mythos––which, for the moment, remain unsearchable ... but I'm pretty sure it's not in any of the published volumes. At best, it's likely a paraphrase.
Cheers,
Clemsy
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. --Jung
Many thanks for the help folks! I suspected that it might be found in the audio collection/lectures. I agree that it's almost certainly not a literal quotation, I just need to find where it was paraphrased from. I have a goodly portion of the audio collection and own mythos. This looks like a good excuse to revisit them!
If you could all keep this in back of your mind, in case you come across something useful in this regard, I'd appreciate it!
And thanks again for the support! I love this awesome community!
If you could all keep this in back of your mind, in case you come across something useful in this regard, I'd appreciate it!
And thanks again for the support! I love this awesome community!
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
And I have yet to go re-rooting through the juggernauts (Masks of God/Historical Atlas of World Mythology) to see if it's in there.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Will do, Yeil, and I'd be interested in hearing back from you, too, if you do run across the quote or something similar.If you could all keep this in back of your mind, in case you come across something useful in this regard, I'd appreciate it!
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. --Jung
Hi Yeil,
I couldn't find the exact quote. But here are a few that are somewhat similar:
Book
Creative Mythology/The Masks of God Page 4
The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell: Joseph Campbell with Michael Toms
CD 4/Track 6
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms Page 117
Myrtle
I couldn't find the exact quote. But here are a few that are somewhat similar:
Book
Creative Mythology/The Masks of God Page 4
Audio ProgramThe first function of a mythology is to reconcile waking consciousness to the mysterium tremendum et fascinans of this universe as it is...
The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell: Joseph Campbell with Michael Toms
CD 4/Track 6
BookAnd since mythologies all have to do with linking these eternal forms, which are those of the psyche and of the mysteries of the universe, to the contemporary life situation, the new myth has to move into a one-world system.
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms Page 117
Hope this helps....So myth has got to deal with the human system in relation to the mystery of the universe.
Myrtle