"Life Lives On Life"-Joseph Cambell

[HuckleberrySlim]

its just a guy saying he learned something and that he liked it

[customer77]

Thanks Sirchud68.

[Sirchud68]

I wish we had this whole lecture

[CapnCanard]

body of christ, amen. i.e. take this body and eat so that you may live. Life consumes life in order to keep living. It is an endless process.

[younwhosarmy]

Misleading Title ... You are not Joseph Campbell!!!

[888Kharami]

when one is ready to die, they die...when one is ready to leave...they are eaten. if one wants to stay, they must cherish everything...especially there soul and deeper natural wants... on the higher planes, there is less death of the noble and more death of the old thinkers....

[starlahicks]

Joseph Campbell was and is a very smart man, wish i could find some of his books to read. His books will make very good reading.

[customer77]

@starlahicks Joesph Campbell has written many scholarly works, but I found the book, "Reflections On The Art of Living, A Joseph Campbell Companion", Selected and Edited by Diane K. Osbon, Harperperennial-Harper Collins Publisher to be a quick read and introduction to his ideas. You may still find it on Amazon.com. Also "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers" is a good place to start your Campbell reading.. Good Luck and thanks for the comment.

[ewb123]

@starlahicks Go to a library.

[speakertx]

I know I have read somewhere in Campbell's work an even more compelling and provoking formulation: "Life eats life." Almost certainly this was in the context of a discussion on the mythological context of primitive societies where the animal spirit is ascribed spiritual significance because of its sacrifice. It gives its life for the sustenance of the people and lives on in them.

To me, it is the most basal definition of the term "Life" in a much broader context.

[customer77]

Or the contrary, it is the most fundamental definition of life, one leading to growth and self-awareness of a shadow side to our personas.

[Wintblash]

google Doe's Account.

[PatrickLeeRyan]

Thanks for this. I wish you'd make more videos on Campbell's philosophy. Very worthy.

[customer77]

Thank You for the comment.

[culturaleyes]

thank you very much for posting this. I wonder if one day the world will truly awaken to Joseph Campbell's teachings. it is the sleeper hit of all time.

[customer77]

Smile.

[customer77]

It was a real eye-opener for me. Campbell's teachings have forever changed my view of religion and it place in western civilization. Thanks for the comment.

[Nuiceltico]

Ok yes you could dance or cry at good mans wake.

[Nuiceltico]

life/death RIP Ted Kennedy as well.

[customer77]

And we dance.

[customer77]

I like that receptor24, balance.

[UTubeBrowzer]

I am the air that breaths us in this most uncurious way. Weather known or unknown comes to us each and every day.

[receptor24]

yes there is more to life than dominance and submission... its called balance

[ahamatmabrahman]

@receptor24 very good comment

[hmoll]

"Man," wrote Oswald Spengler, "is a beast of prey ... The one who lacks courage to be a hammer comes off in the role of the anvil."

[customer77]

I hope Oswald Spengler out grew this infantile point of view. There is more to life than domination and submission, I am saying more to life than power and control and the man not finding the higher life has pretty much wasted this one.

[GildedTermite]

No one was arguing that there wasn't more to life, this was your own inference, and quite obviously one you made precisely because what Spengler said is not only true, but the fundamental core of what we are as a species. You don't agree with him, that's fine, but to so disrespectfully label his views as infantile, is obscene.

[hairyhoff]

to see life as win/lose and lose/win is immature, the mature mind should seek out win/win solutions

[GildedTermite]

On a philosophical level, and as a method of reaching an equilibrium with the world, that's fine, but as a means of discerning what the reality is between sentient beings, it is utterly absurd and impractical.

[customer77]

It has been very practical for me and helped to come to grips with my mortality. Thanks for the comment.

[customer77]

Thank you for this comment.

[customer77]

Great, I am not alone in this thought.

[belovedconsole]

@customer77 hell no you are not alone!

[TheFaustianMan]

I say, to you, you are right to call Oswald Spengler "infantile". It is far from obscene. I would say Gilded Termite calling your point of inference "obscene" is the definition of irony.

Spengler voted for Hitler - TWICE!

He tried to use that book as more of a political career, that failed, than anything else.

He said that people should not study the arts but join The Navy, and that there would be no more scientific discoveries after 1918(ish).

If that is not infantile, I do not know what is.

[brttcm8]

@customer77 Of course there's more to everything than domination but we cannot deny the inflections of life which include great suffering and great forces of history. Esp. if you've ever wondered why "We can go to the Moon but we can't _______!" That is, if you really want power and control the amount of compromise to your humanity will be staggering and it still may turn to ashes.