Not many people understands how important is the work of Joseph Campbell

Yggdrasil ! Reading through Masks of God now, best work on myths and symbols I've ever read. Makes you understand what all the esoteric knowledge is actually about, but they won't spill those secrets as easily and intelligent as Campbell does, such a legend.

Campbell has a wonderfully joyous and compelling way of explaining the commonalities of spiritual experiences across cultures.

I first saw this program in my 20's. I'm now in my 60's. I was so awed by the interaction between Moyers and Campbell that I enrolled in college, then graduate school and became an Anthropologist myself--just like Campbell. I am retired now after 20+ years as an Archaeologist, which I chose as my specialty in Anthropology because I wanted to be able to study the material culture of those who came before us, along with their mythologies that gave their lives meaning. Today, I stand in awe of all of our ancestors, who tamed our wild planet and made human existence worth the telling...

Joseph Campbell was a wonderful teacher of Mythology. He knew when he was a boy of 14 what he wanted to do in life..... and he did it . His whole life was immersed in Mythology throughout the world and his wonderful PBS series with Bill Moyer here called " The Power of Myth " is indelibly imprinted on my brain.Thank you , Joseph Campbell .

What a great speaker he was. Loved him then and now. The common thread that links us all together is our humanity.

I love Joseph Campbell 🧘

I am so pleased these clips are available to listen to, to remind you of important things, to teach you, to guide you and for the opportunity to learn. Thank you for making them available.

This dude was Amazing!.. Many people can learn & understand life through his teachings!

Campbell talks of 'this moment being one of eternity' with the interviewer looking in complete bafflement / bewilderment at what is being said to him. Coincidentally Campbell is correct, we are watching this discussion years into the future, and this moment has been captured as a forever-digital ephemeral and archival record.

I really like how he described time.

I didn’t know Black Elk spoke of hoops. I talk about hoops interwoven in my new book about reading the symbols and organization of the universe like the book it is, like the structure of meaning meant to be read by the creator. ❤ He spoke well. I too feared my own self, felt the fear of others in the things I could say or do. I know that feeling. Thanks for posting this. ❤ It’s not insanity to be misunderstood. ❤ To be something surprising or unexpected. Your disbelief and failures should not be projected as another’s insanity. When people cannot understand they fear. They do not understand their own future. What they do not understand and fear they push away, they destroy. Their own weaknesses destroy their own future in their ignorance. What I would like to tell the world is that fear borne of ignorance is a message of your own destruction to your self by that very ignorance and here we have a personal hoop. The feed-back from the external running from internal feelings or issues. All evil comes from the misinterpretation of internal signals. Chaos seeping in and twisting things. The obstacles are never out there, they are within. You are the obstacle to the future of the world in your ignorance. So it’s pretty important that you recognize that. It’s part of why we are here and our real work.

Thanks for the archives.

One of the great minds of the 20th century.

Beautiful. This kept coming up and coming up, so I watched it and it was perfect. And I thought, yeah, the Universe definitely was poking me there. Then it came up again hours later, so I watched it again. Spot on. Just what I need. We all are One. All the hoops, One Hoop.

The midpoint of infinity is everywhere.

I’m a journalist deeply interested in spiritual topics and it is a treat to watch Bill Moyers conducting these interviews. The kind of thing I would love to to too

This has blown my brain basket wide open. 🤯

Damn, that was deep.

"Joseph Campbell, though his vast understanding of mythology, speaks of the enlightenment state in which one recognizes that reality, ultimately, is the silent stillness in which exists everything that mysteriously flows from it." - Vic Shayne, author, 13 Pillars of Enlightenment

One of many hoops 🖤 Thank you

Beautiffully explained!

Remember those times the power of the myth listed our day and bill MOYERS intelligent news on the matters on Sunday. PBS ! BEST EVER REPORTER WE SO NEED NOW!

What a mind.

This guy really figured it out the secret to life 🙏

Close your eyes and count to 1 - that's how long forever feels. (I saw this somewhere else on KZfaq recently - it rings true here)

wow man profound!

Amo a Joe 🔥 Subtítulos en español por favor! Gracias!

Moyers peeking around ossified scientific images of God trying to grasp Campbell's open fluid following his bliss.

I wish these videos were longer.

Emerson said something like " God is a circle of infinite circumference and whose center is everywhere".

He explained it like no other the interviewer was like a deer in headlights.

Why edit out the punch line... You are the center of the universe and so am I.

Awesome indeed.

Por favor, pongan subtitulos en español; la sabiduria de Campbell no solo debe ser restringida a angloparlantes.

The birth of a symbol is the essence of humanity.

I watched this whole series. Not once is there ever any mention of a dogma

All of these clips put together are interesting.... but.... could you not post the whole interviews?

He is wonderful. In 2015...I met 2 Brian Campbell's in 2 days in Hawaii. I thought of Joseph Campbell in my mind, heart and Soul. I was born March 11th in Bethlehem. God made me Prophetic. God is not divorced from Science. My Middle name is Souix. Sue. Tzu.

Are you guys ever going to post some long form videos?

According to my research, and using scientific, theological and philosophical methods, the "hoops" envisioned by this Sioux boy may represent cycles of time. Western Civilization has a tendency to perceive the passing of time in a linear fashion, while Eastern Civilizations perceive the passing of time in circuits. Both concepts can be harmonized by using a lengthy segment of coil spring as a demonstration tool. Civilizations come and go, and life goes in cycles; and what happened to the Sioux Nation is a mere microcosm of what humanity has experienced since the awakening of our earliest progenitors.

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Wow

A circle whose centre is everywhere and its circumference nowhere?

Can anyone imagine Putin or Trump comprehending any of this. There is a great gap in our people's growth and capacity to embrace these wonderful ideas. Wake up everyone!

As I have re-listened to these interviews over the years, I have realized that Moyers just didn't get it. He was too trapped in the Christian metaphor, as Campbell would phrase it, to understand.

3:45👌

interesting .

Campbell is our most distinguished psychologist/psychiatrist. An uber American born Jung.

3:42

Did he just flip off the entire universe?

greeks called it the omphalos

Release the whole thing, videos, talks, etc. Catch up with the times and collect your money with viewers who respect the Campbell name, which you don't.

Is it "real" or is it "mythological?"

Science doesn't determine my perception of reality.

Why are all the good ones dead

Good stuff they took before the interview

My belief in Christianity is the exact belief and that he is talking about I see no difference

the interviewer didn't get it

Joseph Campbell was a purveyor of commercially romanticized fantasy "mythology", as compared with scholars such as Weston Le Barre, Mircea Eliade, Carl Jung, Wade Davis

I love Joseph Campbell, don't get me wrong, but he totally didn't answer Bill's question lol.

MERU

Holy Kool aid!

Lotsa trollios gathering

I don't know what drugs this guy is on but I want some.....:)))))

Bambuzzles u till u give up give all ur money

Central Mountain? hahaha Central of his land not the world....

Embracing insanity.

Don't want to offend his fans but Campbell trades in "spiritual" bromides, banalities and vulgar generalizations. In this clip he defines "the mountain" several times and even Moyers is confused and befuddled. Watered down and sweetened Jung who was himself watered down. . . manna from heaven for desperate housewives.

A lot of mumbo jumbo, as usual with him. It's amazing how many people in the 1970s and 80s were attracted to this guy's writing.

Won't answer any question cause no idea what he himself is talking about. Maybe that's just my insecurity

I am Jesus Christ.

If you want to understand him don't listen to him

Babble

Wow