Joseph Campbell (notes)

Hero´s path: Departure - Fulfillment - Return

Transformation of conciousness.

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for. 

And it´s really a manifestation of his/her character.

The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

Follow your bliss, and don´t be afraid to follow it.

The influence of a vital person, vitalizes.

There´s a whole conciousness in the body.

I think that conciousness and energy are the same. 

Where you really see energy there is conciousness.

Myths and dreams come from the same place. 

From realizations of some kind.

Myths are clues to the potencialities of the human.

Whatever you do is evil for somebody. 

Who are we to judge.

Eternity (here and now): If you don´t get it here, you won´t get it anywhere.

"History is a nightmare from which I´m trying to awake" (Joyce) 

(Religions) They are stuck with their metaphor and they don´t realize it´s reference.

Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart.

Opening the world to the dimension of mystery. 

If you lose that, you don´t have mythology (to realize the mystery that underlies all forms).

True conciousness and true bliss (each has his/her own)

Here and now is the place to have your experience.

A ritual is the enactment of a myth.

The function of a ritual is to pitch you out, not to wrap you back in where you have been all the time.

The artist´s function is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

James Joyce´s as a revealer of the mysteries of growing up and becoming a human being. 

And Thomas Mann.

The woman is life and the man is the server of life.

Where is your bliss station. Have a place to do what you really want.

That which dies is born. You have to have death in order to have life.

Love is perfect kindness, which is born from the heart and the eyes.

The courage to love becomes the courage to affirm against tradition. 

Whatever knowledge stands, it conforms in one´s own experience.

The validity of the experience is what humanity is, what life is, what values are, against the monolithic system.

Love knows no pain.

Satan is god´s lover.

No condemnation, but recognition. 

The images of myth are reflections of spiritual and death potiencialities of every one of us.

Anthropologist: spiritual forms that repeat, elementary ideas (archtypes of the unconscious in Jung)

Clowns appear in myths to show that the image is not a fact, but it´s a reflect of some kind.

Religion is a defense against the religious experience (Jung) deep mystery.

Mark 13, the end of the world

The eternal is beyond time. Here and now, and nothing else.

The epiphany is the showing through of the essence.