EP 18: Mythology Old, New, Today
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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Chopin Howard - The Only Metaphysical Experience
Chopin Howard asks, how is it that a person through experiencing the pain and danger of another can so forget his own safety that he goes to that other person's rescue at the risk of his own life? The whole sense of the grail is out of nature comes the spirit. I think if this one I see these photos coming over the TV of those wonderful boys in the helicopters going to rescue some companion whom they don't even know who's been shot down. This experience of compassion, mid-live, is an experience of the truth, namely the Jew and that other of one. But the mere empirical experience of your separateness is the secondary experience. So he announces compassion as
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