EP 20: Reincarnation
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Art of the Individual
In the East, at least in India, the word freedom means freedom from being anything. This he calls the principle of individuation,. The accent on that, the accent on the human individual layer. And when we look at the oriental art we realize it is an art of types and Sanskrit there is no word for individual. In the middle ages of the West, this theme of the unique individual was celebrated with particular beauty in the grail romances of the 12th century.
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