The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

 

  1. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, on page 3 he says “Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation” (Page 3). This quote caused me to ponder about, as we discussed in class, what he means by the ‘cosmos’ and how ‘myth’ relates to it. If myth and imagination are how the human intellect attempts to grasp at the unreal, then it makes sense that this would be the manner in which the cosmos are able to ‘pour’ into our reality. This would make sense because the word cosmos, from my understanding, refers to what we cannot grasp or understand because it is outside of our reality. 

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