Myth, Behavior, & Conflict - Joseph Campbell # 5

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Speaker 0 (0s): Here we go again. George. 

Speaker 1 (18s): Welcome back everybody. You guys doing? You have a good weekend. Have a good morning. Do you have a good night last night? What you guys got going on? Got a good week ahead of you. You looking forward to something. I once heard that the secret to life is having someone to love something to look forward to and something to do. Do you have all three of those things? If you got all three of those things, you should be pretty balanced. I hope you're balanced. I gotta tell ya. I'm really excited to be here with you guys today. 

I also got to tell you super thankful for you taking a few moments to hang out with me. I love you guys, and I appreciate it. I've been doing quite a bit of thinking. We did a pretty good series on Terrence McKenna and the archaic revival got a lot of great feedback from it. So I thought that I would stay on a similar pathway. The pathway I've been thinking about is a lot like life's journey. In fact, it's the hero's journey brought to you by our good friend, Joseph Campbell. 

I've been reading a lot of Joseph Campbell lately and helps to expand your ideas of where we're going by reading the mythologies of yesterday, regardless of which culture any of us come from. The people that came before us had a rich symbolic history of storytelling. And some of those myths, I think are the key for us to move forward. It seems to me we've lost our way. 

It seems to me that a lot of us don't have the right direction. A lot of our leaders have lost their way. A lot of us have lost our way. I think that the way we can find our way back is to look to the past. I want to talk a little bit today about mythology, the behavior and conflict and where we are on that schedule. Maybe where you are on that schedule, how we can find our way back and how maybe you can find your own road back your own spiritual journey, by understanding and reading about the heroes of the past. 

We can find new heroes. The truth is we need a hero. And I think that hero resides within you. 

Speaker 0 (2m 49s): <inaudible> 

Speaker 2 (3m 3s): All right, let's get started. 

Speaker 1 (3m 4s): This is all inspired by a good friend, Joseph Campbell, and a lot of what we're going to talk about comes from the book, the power of men. So what is transcendence? Well, according to Campbell, transcendent is a technical philosophical term translated in two different ways. In Christian theology, it refers to God as being beyond or outside the field of nature. That is a materialistic way of talking about the transcendent because God is thought of as a kind of spiritual fact existing, somewhere out there, it was Hagle who spoke of our anthropomorphic God, as the gaseous vertebrate such an idea of God as many Christians hold, or he is thought of as a bearded old man with a not very pleasant temperament, but transcendent properly means that, which is beyond all concepts con tells us that all of our experiences are bounded by time and space. 

They take place within space and they take place in the course of time, time and space form. These sensibilities that bound our experiences. Our senses are enclosed in the field of time and space. And our minds are enclosed in a frame of the categories of thought. But the ultimate thing, which is no thing that we are trying to get in touch with is not so enclosed. We enclose it as we try to think of it. 

The transcendent transcends all of these categories of thinking, being, and non being. Those are categories, the word God properly refers to what transcends all thinking, but the word God itself is something thought about. Now you can personify God in many, many ways. Is there a one God are there many gods? Those are merely categories of thought what you are talking and trying to think about transcends all of that one problem with y'all way. 

As they used to say in the old Christian Gnostic texts is that he forgot he was a metaphor. He thought he was a fact. And when he said, I am God, a voice was heard to say, you are mistaken. Samuel Samuel means blind God blind to the infinite light of which he is a local historical manifestation. This is known as the blasphemy of Jehovah. And he thought he was God. 

Speaker 3 (5m 47s): By the time I was like three years old, I would have this dream that God has. Cause God knows everything is just super intelligent, omnipresent, unlimited dementia. But God doesn't know where 

Speaker 1 (5m 58s): To from. There's a wonderful story in one of you punish shots about the God Indra. Now it happened at this time that a great monster had enclosed all the waters of the earth. So there was a terrible drought and the world was in a very bad condition. It took Andrew quite a while to realize that he had a box of thunderbolts and that all he had to do was drop a Thunderbolt on the monster and blow him up. When he did that, the waters flowed and the world was refreshed. 

And Indra said, what a great boy am I so thinking what a great boy am I Indra goes up to the cosmic mountain, which is the central mountain of the world and decides to build a palace worthy of such as he, the main carpenter of the gods goes to work on it. And in very quick order, he gets the palace into pretty good condition. But every time Indra comes to inspect it, he has bigger ideas about how splendid and grandiose the palace should be. 

Finally, the carpenter says, my God, we are both immortal and there is no into his desires. I am caught for eternity. So he decides to go to Brahma the creator, God and complain. Brahma sits on a Lotus, the symbol of divine energy and divine grace. The Lotus grows from the navel of Vishnu, who is the sleeping God whose dream is the universe. So the carpenter comes to the edge of the great Lotus pond of the universe and tells his story to Brahma. 

Brahma says, you go home, I'll fix this up from a, gets off his Lotus and kneels down to address sleeping Vishnu. Vishnu just makes a gesture and says something like, listen, fly. Something is going to happen next morning at the gate of the palace that is being built, there appears a beautiful blue black boy with a lot of children around him, just admiring his beauty. The Porter at the gate of the new palace goes running to Indra and Indra says, well, bring in the boy. 

The boy is brought in and injure the King God sitting on his throne says young man, welcome. And what brings you to my palace? Well says the boy with a voice like thunder, rolling on the horizon. I have been told that you are building such a palace as no Indra before you ever built. An Indra says intros before me, young, man, what ar...