EP 4: Occidental and Oriental Ideas
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Tiger and the Goats
Joseph Campbell talks about how we have been alienated from our true nature by our spiritual diet. He says mythology functions the same way as a sort of seasoning to make the truth more appealing, so that we are less likely to gag on it. We find ourselves in the same circumstance as the young orphan's scrawny and timid tiger: believing ourselves to be something other,. But with the proper diet, we might begin to glimpse what we really are - wedded to form may be.
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