Campbell : People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experience on the purely physical Plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about, and that's what these clues help us to find within ourselves.


Moyers: Myths are clues?


Campbell : Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.


Moyers: What we're capable of knowing and experiencing within?


Capbell: Yes


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The whole living world is informed by consciousness.
I have a feeling that consciousness and energy are the same thing somehow. Wheere you really see life energy, there's consiousness. Certainly as a kid, you can see all these different consciousnesses relating to themselves. There is a plant consciousness and there is an animal consciousness, and we share both these things. You eat certain foods, and the bile knows whether there's something there for it to go work on. The whole process is consciousness. Trying to interpret it in simply mechanistic terms won't work.


pg. 18
Campbell: Man should not submit to the powers from outside but command them. How to do it is the problem.


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