"mythology is the song of the universe"
GAIA: the whole world is consciousness, all life is meditation
we are not alone in our journey, others have gone before, "the labyrinth is thoroughly known"
two types of heroic deeds (sacrifice of life to Life):
physical: saving a life or giving one's life
spiritual: departure into unknown, fulfillment, and return
Otto Rank: The Myth of the Birth of the Hero "myths, originally at least, are structures of the human faculty of imagination" "gratitude toward the parents ... and revolt against them" "The hero himself, as shown by his detachment from the parents, begins his career in opposition to the older generation; he is at once a rebel, a renovator, and a revolutionary. However, every revolutionary is originally a disobedient son, a rebel against the father."
everyone heroic: every birth, every child, every mother
the journey: drawn into it | consciously undertaken | thrown into it
serendipity
the trials and revelations lead to transformation of consciousness
the mind is a secondary organ of the whole body -- it must serve the body, not dominate it; intellectual systems Darth Vader
will we say yes or no to the adventure of life
the myth is the expression of the inexpressible, the mysterious edge of the known/unknowable
the CENTER
heliotropism
the heart that has truly loved never forgets
But as truly loves on to the close
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she'd turned when he rose Thomas More
CHARTRES: Campbell was invited by the bell-ringer -- the seesaw in the bell tower -- the ringer's tiny living space behind the choir screen -- a little bed, a lamp -- looking out to the black Madonna -- living in a meditation
From a distance Chartres floats on a hill above green fields
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