"Hearing the song that is beyond that of your own individual life cycle is the thing that opens you to wisdom. You can hear it in your life, interpreting it, reading it, not in terms of the calamities or boons of your individual existence, but as a message of what life is." JOSEPH CAMPBELL Myth and Meaning, 12 EXPERIENCE the POWER JMYTH in music www.jcf.org/subscribe
Wisdom from Joseph Campbell
#musicsky #powerofmyth
"society is supposed to help us have the realization. Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, & that’s what is threatening the world at this minute." #MonsterState
Skywalker #PowerOfMyth
"monster masks that are put on people in Star Wars #represent the #real monster force in the modern world. When the mask of Darth Vader is removed, you see an unformed man, one who has not developed as a human individual" - Age 83, year 1987
#PowerOfMyth published year 1988 #MonsterForce #TheForce
I bought Trump’s Bible – a blasphemous, sticky nightmare President Donald J. Trump posing with The Bible he sells. Bible salesman. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-bible-review
#TrumpBible #BibleSalesman #Bible #BibleBook #Booksky #BookTok
"So it’s an extreme case that we have in the Bible, and our own Western subjugation of the female is a function of biblical thinking."
#PowerOfMyth book, published year 1988 #TheBible
RE: "nothing that’s ever been in TV before"
"people who write these stories do not have the sense of their responsibility. These stories are making & breaking lives. But the movies are made simply to make money. The kind of responsibility that goes into a priesthood with a ritual" - #PowerOfMyth 88
#DiaryOfRoundSparrow
Here in USA, people still think "pranks" on the Internet don't matter. That fiction Fox News HDTV doesn't drive behavior. That fiction Quran stories in Iran don't drive society behavior. Fiction Bible stories in the Church don't influence behavior. No grasp of #PowerOfMyth
"So it’s an extreme case that we have in the Bible, and our own Western subjugation of the female is a function of biblical thinking."
#PowerOfMyth year 1988
#SkywalkerRanchMetaphorUniverse /\
Putin is not dumb.
Hitler was not dumb.
Trump is not dumb.
All three, Putin / Trump / Hitler, knew the Torah + Bible were #ScienceFiction and how audiences worship bow to #Fiction Storytellers. Rupert Murdoch knows too. Not stupid people.
George Lucas #PowerOfMyth 1988 book. #GeorgeLucas educated.
#AssertMalala #Epstein #Trump #Musk
#SkywalkerRanchMetaphorUniverse #PowerOfMyth 1988 book: "So it’s an extreme case that we have in the Bible, and our own Western subjugation of the female is a function of biblical thinking."
Enjoying Joseph Campbell’s Power of Myth (his deep dialogue with Bill Moyers) again via PBS. It is a pleasure to revisit this series from time to time. I don’t tire hearing his stories from the various traditions to illustrate his points. 😊🙏🏽💜
#powerofmyth #josephcampbell #PBS
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: And then we canceled the Declaration of Independence and rejoined the British conquest of the planet. And so we are now on one side of the pyramid. We’ve moved from one to two. We are politically, historically, now a member of one side of an argument. We do not represent that principle of the eye up there. And all of our concerns have to do with economics and politics and not with the voice and sound of reason. BILL MOYERS: The voice of reason—is that the philosophical way suggested by these mythological symbols? CAMPBELL: That’s right. Here you have the important transition that took place about 500 B.C. This is the date of the Buddha and of Pythagoras and Confucius and Lao-tzu, if there was a Lao-tzu. This is the awakening of man’s reason. No longer is he informed and governed by the animal powers. No longer is he guided by the analogy of the planted earth, no longer by the courses of the planets—but by reason. MOYERS: The way of — CAMPBELL: — the way of man. And of course what destroys reason is passion. The principal passion in politics is greed. That is what pulls you down. And that’s why we’re on this side instead of the top of the pyramid. MOYERS: That’s why our founders opposed religious intolerance — CAMPBELL: That was out entirely. And that’s why they rejected the idea of the Fall, too. All men are competent to know the mind of God. There is no revelation special to any people.
#PowerOfMyth page 36, published in year 1988
George Lucas wanted his audience to know more than just fiction. Lessons from the Founding Fathers to Star Wars audiences were filmed at Skywalker Ranch.
#TruthToPower "Speaking Truth to Power"
#SpeakingTruthToPower
1. TRUTH of POWER : Fiction outsells nonfiction
2. Donald Trump provides constant fiction content for media addicts.
The power of fiction. #PowerOfFiction #PowerOfMyth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...
#RoundSparrowAsserts #StarWars #GeorgeLucas
The story of Star Wars 1977 is a story of how audiences are attracted to fantasy fiction over nonfiction. Science does not sell, but fiction mythology stories are popular and attractive. Lucas disclosed this in 1988 book #PowerOfMyth
#PeterPomerantsev Where ANGELS fear to Tread.
Peter Pomerantsev does not cite Neil Postman, Rick Roderick, Joseph Campbell, Marshall McLuhan. Peter Pomerantsev is unwilling to confront that #Religion is fiction, science fiction fanatics, like #StarWars - that Bill Moyers spelled out #PowerOfMyth
PETER, Who are #Mason symbols you think 1776 year symbols can not be decoded in 1987 #GeorgeLucas in #PowerOfMyth book?
"Sefton Delmer lead Britain's counter-propaganda against the Nazis. He didn't believe in lecturing fascists about democracy. He was a trickster"
“No, no, he had a red hat on,” and they get into a fight. #PowerOfMyth
billmoyers.com/content/ep-6...
Bill Moyers career saw him as LBJ’s press secretary & a journalist.
Working for PBS, he produced programming that was informative & entertaining. He was 91
#Billmoyers #PBS #PowerofMyth #RIPBillMoyers
www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... press secretary turned TV journalist Bill Moyers is dead at 91 : NPR
#WhenAge24 ++
#FWakeWhenAge ++
When I was age 24, #RickRoderick gave a lecture, recorded on videotape in 1993. "The Self Under Siege" lecture. 7 hours long, which he refined over several years in his classrooms at #DukeUniversity
Previously #WhenAge18 #PowerOfMyth filmed by #GeorgeLucas I knew
"If the zombie apocalypse ever happens, we are all hiding behind you. Somehow, you’ll know what to do”
#FWakeToDo : is #StopItBefore --- #GreatSealUSASalvageRotate "Salvage Rotate the Great Seal of the USA, we had lessons in 1988 from #GeorgeLucas in #PowerOfMyth book"
#DropEverythingTime ++
If we work together, we can clear a path to the other side. I'll be there working to do just that, time permitting, and I hope to see you there.
theelectronmicrostar.com
#plato
#allegoryofthecave
#herosquest
#herosjourney
#monomyth
#carljung
#powerofmyth
#josephcampbell
#FWakeMarch11 #March11 #FWakeYear2016 #FWakeY2016 #FWakeBillMoyers
Bill Moyers, who used to be a director in the White House, and had direct education... #PowerOfMyth #BillMoyers
Declared this was ALREADY fascism in March 2016. Well before the November 2016 election. #SurkovStageSix
“Europe on brink of civilizational suicide” is of a piece with Portland OR bring a heap of charred rubble, 90% of Netherlands being a Shari’a law no-go zone, troop-spitting hippies and Saddam’s WMD #PowerOfMyth
"So it’s an extreme case that we have in the Bible, and our own Western subjugation of the female is a function of biblical thinking." - #JosephCampbell 1987 #PowerOfMyth
#DieForMetaphor
:: #DehumanizeForMetaphor "Dehumanize for a metaphor" ++
:: #KillForMetaphor ++
#FWakeRedTape
#FWakeMonoMythCrisis
The monomyth crisis #PowerOfMyth #FWakePowerOfMyth ends on (the book), "die for a metaphor" is understated. People murder for memes. #FWakeForMemes #ForMemes
I independently recognized the patterns of manipulation behavior and contacted the Pentagon before I ever heard of Peter Pomerantsev or studied the 2014 Ukraine war
My basis of monomyth (religion) simulacra study is from Joseph Campbell's lifetime of work I learned of in 1988 from PBS #PowerOfMyth
#SocialMediaSociety "Social media society"
#PowerOfMyth #ThePowerOfMyth
#FWakePowerOfMyth
"The Power of Myth is a book based on the 1988 PBS documentary Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pow...
#BookSky #Book #Books
"When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute” - 1986, George Lucas filming at Skywalker Ranch California, Joseph Campbell age 82
page 8, #PowerOfMyth
#FWakeBillMoyers #FWakePowerOfMyth #PowerOfMyth
"What did you mean, Joe, when you said that the triumph of Tristan’s view of love and vision of love, this beginning of romantic love in the West was “libido over credo”?"
#FWakeTristan //\\
billmoyers.com/content/ep-5...
"Sometimes I wonder what the world would’ve been like if the most prominent figures of the New Atheist movement"
Joseph Campbell at age 82 gave a perfectly fine atheist course with Bill Moyers in 1986 / 1987 that George Lucas filmed at Skywalker Ranch California, but nobody cares. #PowerOfMyth
