EP 18: Mythology Old, New, Today
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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What Are You Going to Do With Your Hate?
In 1543, Copernicus published his heliocentric thesis. This was the first time in the history of man that a cosmology was announced which was purely conceptual. We still do have mythologies all over the place of ours is the one true. And think what this involves mythologically. What are you going to do with your hate? All of the old traditions say love belongs with the in-group and we project our aggression outward. There is no outside anymore. It's conflict which has been recognized in all societies forever between the aggression and the principle of the erotic.
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