Friday, June 20, 2014

Joe Campbell and Goddesses

Some of you might appreciate this book, or at least the review of this book, on one of Campbell's recently published works.  I believe it's an edited book put together posthumously. 

http://sleepinghedgehog.com/books/joseph-campbell-goddesses-mysteries-of-the-feminine-divine/

“Many of the difficulties that women face today follow from the fact that they are moving into a field of action in the world that was formerly reserved for the male and for which there are no female mythological models.”
As the Introduction goes on, Campbell makes it crystal clear that he supports that shift:
“The challenge of the moment…is to flower as individuals, neither as biological archetypes nor as personalities imitative of the male….We are in this thing together and have to work it out together, not with passion (which is always archetypical) but with compassion, in patient fostering of each other’s growth.”

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