Joseph Campbell Quote

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.


The Masks of God: Creative Mythology (ed. 1976)


For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For...

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For...

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For...

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For...