EP 22 : Moon Landings and Mythology
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Ontology of the Indian Society
The ontology as the authorization of a social order, which in all the old traditions is regarded as derived from an uncriticizable authority. That deity who is supposed to have been the creator of the universe is also the one who delivered the law on Mount Sinai. And those laws are as uncontrovertible as the laws of the universe. Similarly, in India, where you don't have the idea of a personal creator, but the idea ofa universe that has been in being, has been inBeing forever and cannot be changed.
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