Joseph Campbell

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United States mythologist (1904-1987)

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My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters. David Knopfler

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. Will Smith

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut. Trey Parker

Boeree Joseph Campbell believed there were two different orders of mythology: myths that "are metaphorical of spiritual potentiality in the human being," and myths "that have to do with specific societies." Source: Internet

Historians of the 1930s blamed them for stirring up a war frenzy but more recent scholars have not accepted that theory. citation W. Joseph Campbell, Yellow journalism: Puncturing the myths, defining the legacies (2001). Source: Internet

It has been suggested by Joseph Campbell that the symbol of snakes coiled around a staff is an ancient representation of Kundalini physiology. Source: Internet

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