Joseph Cambell & Our Lack of Myth

Are we becoming grandmothers and grandfathers to a legacy of faceless nobodies who will one day populate this post-modern vacuum of human isolation? Do myths have the power to halt this cycle we’ve been sucked into? Are they a way of rekindling that fascination about life that the future is draining us of? Joseph Campbell would argue in the book The Power of Myth that yes, with a psychological interpretation of myths we can …showed first 75 words of 1216 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1216 total…patterns that exist between myths, between cultures, between global problems, and between people themselves are too obvious to ignore. And the patterns of how our culture has developed show a blatant breakdown in the foundations of our systems: myths. Myths give us rituals and rites of passage, which in turn shape the given society. Until we can accept the basis of our civilization as global truths, we may see more water pulsing from the cracks.