I first watched this Incredible series when they were released. All my life, I have studied philosophy and now as an old man I am once again watching this irreplaceable interview with Joseph Campbell. I have read all his books over the many decades... I could not imagine having lived without the companionship of Joseph!

Thank you. That is important. Access to productions like this keeps me on the internet.

Should be taught in school alongside Health Class. Spirit Class.

MR. CAMPBELL WAS SO GRACIOUS . HIS DEMEANOR & VOICE ALMOST HYPNOTIC. MUCH APPRECIATION FOR CHANNEL'S CREATOR WITH SHARING.

Truly, thank you! As far as I'm concerned, this remains the #1 best documentary series ever made by PBS. Given that in the days when Moyers made this series, PBS was still substantially funded by the People (via our tax dollars), for the People, as it was always meant to be, and given the value and depth of Campbell's wisdom and message, this series is something that should always have been made freely available to all. The mythology of a people is an open door through which a people is able to grasp both the context of their civilization and the heart of their collective unconscious -- the heart of their own culture. A people who do not understand what lives, breathes and motivates at the heart of their culture, is a people who move blindly through the world, incapable of knowing themselves, incapable of learning, growing and evolving through experience. To see this series in its entirety is a great blessing, and potentially life-changing.

I knew Jospeph Campbell was that bomb, but this is leaving me LOVE-bombed.

One of the best conversations ever, I love it! Thank you

Thank you for uploading this series! You are much appreciated =)

This is more interesting than "My Dinner With Andre" which was around theaters at the time this program was on PBS. Interesting, intelligent conversation was popular entretainment at one time, not that very long ago. Seems unbelievable now.

The area that Moyer and Joseph Campbell are sitting in is the library at the main house at SW ranch. You have to see it yourself to appreciate.

Thankyou so much for this, Campbell work has really helped me and interpret my anthropology and English literature major subjects

Listening on Easter weekend, the discussion of the crucifixion, of love, is bringing tears to my eyes. Thank you for this.

I love everything about this documentary so enlightening. And I really appreciate the sound (volume) 🙏

Mind blowing documentary…Thank you for uploading it….

"Love is the perfect kindness"

Love your channel, Joseph Campbell has a book club called Literati. Your my new number 1 channel.

Bill Moyer’s facial reaction at 24:52 when Campbell is talking about Christ’s suffering. So awesome.

Thank you for these channels I truly enjoyed them, watching them all and sharing 👍❤️💫

Joseph Campbell was a legend in his own right! Thanks for uploading.

Thank you for this!

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the best ep. in the series imo.

Great and amazing stuff! Thank you

This is very interesting on the female aspect in mythology, there is a book " Merchants Of Light" by Betty J. Kovacs on this lost feminine mythology.

Wonderful lectures

So beautiful. I was led here when I was watching Sofianic Animism. Of John Lamb Lash. Thank you for sharing.. ❤

Love is a renewable resource.

Fantastic

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I AM 🤍💜🕊 Gratitude 🙏

Love is the true pain of being alive

What is the movie at the beginning of this episode?

When did Mr. MOYERS tape his introduction this time. What year. Thanks

i wish i could ask mr campbell what ls involved in the myth of outer space.and how it will influence humanity?

The word is great birther.

It is written that Christ learned from the things he suffered. That would be because whatever we can learn from an experience, however traumatic thereby benefits us, even if in spite of itself. The all-inclusive Absolute is a hermaphroditic female who impregnated herself to give birth to the Universe. We all live on top of her tummy.

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Does anyone know the song in the very beginning? The opera/play?

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From which movie is that part 0:12 ?

I don't think serenading actually works... she usually likes the other guy not paying attention to her 😅

26:42 old censorship.

I only have eyes for you

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The Mother Earth also birthed the animals and plants for hunter gatherers . I believe that the mother religions came first in all cultures .

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“More than the economic dependency of the wife & children on the husband & father is needed to preserve the institution of the authoritarian family. For the suppressed classes, this dependency is endurable only on condition that the consciousness of being a sexual being is suspended as completely as possible in women and in children. The wife must not figure as a sexual being, but solely as a child-bearer. Essentially, the idealization and deification of motherhood, which are so flagrantly at variance with the brutality with which the mothers of the toiling masses are actually treated, serve as means of preventing women from gaining a sexual consciousness, of preventing the imposed sexual repression from breaking through and of preventing sexual anxiety and sexual guilt-feelings from losing their hold. Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognised as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology. Conservative sexual reform has always made the mistake of merely making a slogan of ‘the right of woman to her own body’, and not clearly and unmistakably regarding and defending woman as a sexual being, at least as much as it regards and defends her as a mother. Furthermore, conservative sexual reform based its sexual policies predominantly on the function of procreation, instead of undermining the reactionary view that equates sexuality and procreation. It is for this reason that it was not able to counter mysticism with sufficient force.” [The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Wilhelm Reich, 1946, Ch.11, Sec 5: The Sex-Economic Presuppositions of the Authoritarian Family] "Arguments of this cast are an insult to common sense, and savour of passion. The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is to be hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger, and though conviction may not silence many boisterous disputants, yet, when any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation." [A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797, 2: The Prevailing Opinion...] "There remains to be considered the position of the lower class women. In barbarous society these women were very little different from slaves. They had no rights of their own, except such rights as their master man chose to allow them for his own convenience. They were sold in marriage by their parents, and they went where they were sold, and obeyed their new master. They became his household drudges, and reserved their affections for him; if they failed to do this, he stoned them to death, or strangled them with a cord and tied them in a sack and threw them into the river." [The Book Of Life, Upton Sinclair, Part 3, CHAPTER XXIX, THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARRIAGE]

The holy spirit is the feminine

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Wow. Explanation of the virgin birth..Beginning of humanity… virgin birth… psychological places first three animal instinct next level of the heart spiritual man of the animal man awaken at the level of the heart to suffer with. It’s not all out there it’s you have you been reborn. Spiritual birth

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Well I disagree that the eyes go reconnoitering, find something pleasing to the heart, and at that moment love is born. Very romantic but simply not true. True love takes time.

The scriptures have been manipulated and flipped. Lots have been left out, Lots of interference,

Sorry dude but you have WAY too many ads inserted into the video, it completely breaks up the viewing experience when every 5 minutes you’re getting one. Thanks for uploading though.

There is no Helll. Only Heaven.

I know it's too late for Joseph Campbell and his friend to educate themselves but I m really wondering what has been their source of study about Islam ! All their ideas and interpretation are wrong. In Islam, Iblis is not considered the lover of God, on the contrary it is Egocentric and God knew it all the way long when iblis was promoting himself from Elf to become an Angel. God knew it in advance that when the time comes at the Threshold he will disobey and show his True face. And indeed he did. Even In Persian Mythologies, one can not justify disobedience in Love by any means. Just to clarify the part about Iblis, I wrote this comment. This is the Islamic belief not mine. Campbell information was wrong

This is simplistic and very selective. He presents the troubadours as a tremendous force, but refuses to admit where they really came from. He doesn’t seem to know Layla and Majnun. He doesn’t seem to understand that a very lustful affair is not an adequate basis for love and the responsibilities of having children. It’s not a contest between God and the devil, and his simplistic dualism happily remains unconvincing.

How appropriate that I’m watching this episode on Valentine’s Day, since love is a myth. Love is a lie.

The fact that man has nipples says it all

Ugh...........💜🖤💜🖤💜🖤💜🖤 Nope!!!!! 😃

Fascinating . Good ole educated white guys discussing feminine wisdom I thought I’d never witness this miracle in this life. I’m really over all the other philosophical dudes talking about how “none of this reality/life experience is real : it’s all a simulation “ , you’ll never hear a woman who has given birth to life making this statement . Well done , thanks for uploading. Love thy enemy , it’s a hard one but I guess it frees one from infinite suffering. A lot of interesting talking points going on here , I thoroughly enjoyed this video.

Too bad Campbell is Gnostic. He's a fabulous raconteur and scholar. Thanks

These are new ideas based on ancient myths in an attempt to link them and exhibit all of humanity on a natural path of descnet, which is far from the reality of things. None of the myths from africa to asia are present in the americas (and i would guess Australia as well), this is a completely western view of the Afroeurasian experience. This is often left out of these conversations but should be presented front and center to establish this as a distinct European view of the world. Imo, based on the fact humanity has exited at least 400k years and modern europeans have existed 5k years, that they’ve spent the last 5k years trying figuring out an ancient world they woke up in. These thoughts and statements being made belong to only one people, the modern europeans, who have chosen to seperate themselves as another form of the so called chosen people, by usurping ancient myhtologies.

Western romantic love, like most "traditional" ideals, is highly overrated - certainly as a "goal." A very, very oversold, exploited and often vampiric "goal." "Enlightenment" as well. Practice and the joy of being alive and, as a human being, being consciously alive is in (at the very least) the reach every moderately healthy living thing.

Campbell has very little genuine humility for all his gab about Buddha and compassion; he exudes with academic snobbery

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