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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

Knowledge = Power

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The Resurrection of Beginnings

The ricorso is the return to beginnings exactly the moment of transition we are in now as Joyce sees it for the dreamer in the wake is living in our day with the ricorso. We are back in the age of the battling giants slugging each other all over the place back in the iron age in chaos in hindu india. This vortex is represented on a cosmic level by the four ugas the world ages which run in a descending cycle when everything ends in mush and must be restored  the final mush will come when the caste system is broken, he says. The great cycle is marked every year by the solstices and equinoxes the world comes

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