| I agree, they need to be reborn again without the blinders on.
And I agree that we can learn much more from the works of Campbell then the one aspect that I elaberated upon. I recall in one lecture how he compared the the old with the new, I think he compared the story in a modern Star Wars book with a story in the Bible (or might have been in Greek Mythology).
Rupert Sheldrake wrote an interesting book also where he traced the history of science theory about the universe and different man made inventions that were current to the times when the theory was being developed. When man invented the machanical wind up clock it was soon that science came up with the theory about the machanical universe (which operated much like a clock with many gears and orbits, etc.) When we invented nuclear energy (A- bomb) is was soon after that science came up with the theory of the Big Bang - each new invention or discovery that was major resulted in a new science theory. (no doubt we have more modern ones relative to the invention of the computer). Some of the Biblical theory about the universe was patterned after the ideas employed for building a house. First god built the foundation - water and land on earth, then the middle living rooms, the environment, then he built the roof, the sky above. It sounded logical back then. they viewed the sky, the sun, moon and stars as being a dome roof for the flat earth which was he foundation for the whole universe. Man learned how to construct a building and so it was thought logical that god built the universe the same way, each new theory has it's related man-made invention.
Of book is better written then my breif review. |