EP 22 : Moon Landings and Mythology
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Myth of the Moon
The Brings before us all was Galileo worked out when he applied the principles of ballistics and the movements of propelled bodies on earth to an interpretation of the orbits of the planets. The scriptural interpretation of mythology has been completely refuted by these events. It stunned me to hear from three men navigating the moon those words from the first verses of the book of Genesis which everyone whom I've talked to felt were immensely moving coming from that distance in the beginning. They had just heard from the three explorers that the moon was very dry. There was no water up there at all and then they went on with this. From my point of view the imagery of myth is the imagery through which our own nature
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