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Metaphor as Myth and Religion
March 22, 1986 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm PST
This will be an all day seminar, commencing with a lecture and continuing with open discussions of specific metaphors: The Promised Land, Virgin Birth, Resurrection, End of the World, Second Coming, Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation, God, Brahman, Nirvana, etc. Examples from differing traditions will be recognized and compared, the intention being to disengage, in every case, the message from the messenger, the connotation from the denotation of the symbol. In other words, we will make our way toward a clearer understanding of the difference between symbolic and literal meanings of mythic and religious image.
Related Lecture: Genesis and Exodus-History and Myth
JOSEPH CAMPBELL is a pre-eminent scholar of mythology and a prolific writer and lecturer on the relevance of myth to modern culture. Among his many works are Hero With A Thousand Faces: The Masks of God; The Mythic Image; and more recently, The Way of Animal Powers, Vol I of the Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Works in progress inlcude the second volume of the Atlas, The Way of The Seeded Earth, and the soon to be published Inner Reaches of Outer Space.