LOGOS=WORD of God AS God's Intelligence
God defined himself in the begining. AKA (first archetype/symbol)
John.1
[1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Andromeda, there are many archetypes, take the alphabet for example, it has 26 letters, each one a symbol on its own. The idea that we are only made of 22 master archetypes is in error.
Psychology, myth, anthropology
Campbell's thinking on universal symbols and stories was deeply influenced by
James Frazer (
The Golden Bough),
Adolf Bastian, and
Otto Rank (
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero), among others.
Anthropologist
Leo Frobenius was important to Campbell’s view of cultural history.Campbell's ideas regarding myth and its relation to the human psyche are dependent in part on the pioneering work of
Sigmund Freud, but in particular on the work of
Carl Jung, whose studies of human psychology, as previously mentioned, greatly influenced Campbell. Campbell's conception of myth is closely related to the Jungian method of dream interpretation, which is heavily reliant on symbolic interpretation.Jung's insights into
archetypes were in turn heavily influenced by the
Bardo Thodol (also known as
The Tibetan Book of the Dead). In his book
The Mythic Image, Campbell quotes Jung's statement about the
Bardo Thodol, that it "belongs to that class of writings which not only are of interest to specialists in
Mahayana Buddhism, but also, because of their deep humanity and still deeper insight into the secrets of the human psyche, make an especial appeal to the layman seeking to broaden his knowledge of life... For years, ever since it was first published, the
Bardo Thodol has been my constant companion, and to it I owe not only many stimulating ideas and discoveries, but also many fundamental insights."
[18]Comparative religionCampbell relied often upon the writings of
Carl Jung as an explanation of psychological phenomena, as experienced through
archetypes.
But Campbell did not necessarily agree with Jung upon every issue, and had very definite ideas of his own.A fundamental belief of Campbell's was that all
spirituality is a search for the same basic, unknown force from which everything came, within which everything currently exists, and into which everything will return. This elemental force is ultimately “unknowable” because it exists before words and knowledge.
Although this basic driving force cannot be expressed in words, spiritual rituals and stories refer to the force through the use of "metaphors"—these metaphors being the various stories, deities, and objects of spirituality we see in the world. For example, the Genesis myth in the Bible ought not be taken as a literal description of actual events, but rather its poetic, metaphorical meaning should be examined for clues concerning the fundamental truths of the world and our existence.
[19]Accordingly, Campbell believed the
religions of the world to be the various, culturally influenced “masks” of the same fundamental,
transcendent truths. All religions, including
Christianity and
Buddhism, can bring one to an elevated awareness above and beyond a dualistic conception of reality, or idea of “pairs of opposites,” such as being and non-being, or right and wrong. Indeed, he quotes in the preface of
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: "
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names."—which is a translation of the Rig Vedic saying, "Ekam Sat Vipra Bahuda Vadanthi."BTW Freud was a Jew and Joseph Campbell an American, if culture reference is somehow important to you.Heroes and the monomythThe role of the
hero figured largely in Campbell's comparative studies. In 1949
The Hero with a Thousand Faces introduced Campbell's idea of the
monomyth (as stated above, a word borrowed from
Joyce), outlining some of the archetypal patterns that Campbell recognized. Heroes were important to Campbell because, to him, they conveyed universal truths about one's personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in
society, and the relation between the two.Campbell explores the theory that important myths from around the world which have survived for thousands of years all share a fundamental structure, which Campbell called the
monomyth. In a well-known quote from the introduction to
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell summarized the monomyth:
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[2]
The Masks of GodCampbell's four-volume work
The Masks of God covers mythology from around the world, from ancient to modern. Where
The Hero with a Thousand Faces focused on the commonality of mythology (the “elementary ideas”), the
Masks of God books focus upon historical and cultural variations the monomyth takes on (the “folk ideas”). In other words, where
The Hero with a Thousand Faces draws perhaps more from psychology, the
Masks of God books draw more from anthropology and history. The four volumes of
Masks of God are as follows:
Primitive Mythology,
Oriental Mythology,
Occidental Mythology, and
Creative Mythology.
Brook wrote:So Carl Jung understood that the theory of Archetype and Collective unconscious could "control".....This to me would be of great importance to a man who wanted to take over the world with a superior race of superior beings.....Hitler and his psychic job did a number on the world...and now the Thubans have taken the works of Carl Jung, and moved it to another level indeed.
Thubans = Carl Jung = psychic job
Indeed Brook a race of superior beings is about to take over the world, its called the Divine within us aka Christ consciousness.
Thubans = Carl Jung = psychic job. YES brook, good observation here, you SEE how humanity has deluded itself just like you are doing now. Lookout its a BIG RED TRUCK omg RUN!!!
Brook, if your going to compare Thuban to Hitler, let me make one distinction very clear, we don't actually burn bodies, just minds with WORDS.
WORDS=SWORD=Excalibur of Merlin=I AM THAT I AM=95
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