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Power of Myth
Metaphoric or Historic?Symbolic or Literal?
Partial Transcripts –Programs 4-6
 
Power of Myth
Topics –Programs 4-6
Masks of Eternity -#6
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Participation in divinity
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The experience of beingalive
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In the East the gods areelemental
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About Jesus
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Do you believe in apersonal God?
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What is religion
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Jung –the circle
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The pollen path of theNavajo
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Tibetan sand mandala
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Archetypes of theunconscious
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Elementary ideas
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The Trickster
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The image of god is yourbasic obstruction
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Maslow –peak experience
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Joyce –epiphanies
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The sublime
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The Buddhas –peacefuland wrathful
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The experience of theeternal
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Schopenhauer –Thecomposed order of life
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Follow your bliss
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Shiva –lord of the dance
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Metaphors
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AUM
Love & Goddess-#5
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The troubadours
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Love as Eros
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Agape –Christian love
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Traditional marriage
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Tristan and Isolde
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Libido over credo
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The holy grail
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God is love
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Satan’s fall
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Love your enemies
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Tibet
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Abelard
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The Goddess
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The Mother Goddess
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A Vedic story
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Our Mother
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Warrior gods
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The Virgin Mother
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Kundalini
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Isis and Osiris
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Madonna and child
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Male and female –yin andyang
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The inner reaches of outerspace
Sacrifice & Bliss -#4
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A sacred place
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The Bushmen –hunters & gatherers
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From hunting to planting
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An Algonquin story
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A Polynesian story
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New Guinea ritual
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The sacrifice of the mass
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The two trees in the Garden
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The sacrificial ballgame of the Mayan
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The Iroquois sacrifice
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The Jesus dance
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The lord of death is the lordof sex
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The head hunt of Indonesia
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Schopenhauer –thesacrifice of oneself for theother
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The sacrifice of motherhood
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Marriage –sacrifice to therelationship
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About death
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The message of the myth
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Sir Gawain & the GreenKnight
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Nietzsche –The threeTransformations of thespirit
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To follow your bliss
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The wheel of fortune
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Sat Chit Ananda
 
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Power of Myth
Sacrifice
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Bliss -Program 4
JC: Words of Chief Seattle –1852 -The president in Washington sends word that hewishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky—the land? The idea isstrange to us. Every part of this earth is sacred to my people.Every shining pineneedle –every sandy shore –every mist in the dark woods –every meadow –allare holy in the memory and experience of my people –we’re part of the earth and itis part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters –the bear, the deer, the greateagle, these are our brothers –each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakestells of events and memories in the life of my people –the waters murmur as thevoice of my father’s father –the rivers are our brothers –they carry our canoes andfeed our children.If we sell you our land –remember –that the air is precious to us –that the airshares its spirit with all the life it supports –the wind that gave our grandfather hisfirst breath also receives his last sigh.This we know –the earth does not belong to man –man belongs to the earth –allthings are connected like the blood that unites us all –man did not weave the webof life he is merely a strand in it –whatever he does to the web he does to himself.Your destiny is a mystery to us –what will happen when the buffalo are allslaughtered –what will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy withthe scent of many men –and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires –the end of living and the beginning of survival –when the last red man has vanishedwith his wilderness –and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving acrossthe prairie –will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be anyspirit of my people left?We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother’s heartbeat –so if we sell you ourland --love it as we have loved it—care for it as we have cared for it –hold in yourmind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it –preserve the land for allchildren and love it as god loves us all –one thing we know –there is only one god--no man –be he red man or white man can be apart –we are brothers after all.BM: Introduction –Sacred places –Delphi, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, Jerusalem –we recognize these as places where societies came together to express theirspiritual concerns. But for some very early societies as JC points out in his historicalatlas of world mythology –the whole earth was a sacred place . . . our ancestorssaw the sacred in everything around them –the voices of the gods spoke from thewind and thunder and the spirit of god flowed in every mountain stream –it was ageography not of city and nation-states –but of sacred places –-the realm of themythic imagination –as our ancestors turned from hunting to planting –the storiesthey told to interpret the mysteries of life changed too . . . to spiritual visionariesthis image reveals a divine truth as well as a principle of life itself –from deathcomes life –from sacrifice –bliss . . . the relationship of myth to landscape . . .
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