I lived in Woodstock for five years in a little shack that cost twenty dollars a year. I wasnt yet married, and so I managed to stick it out, spending all my time reading everything that was essential to the kind of thinking I was doing in those days. I had an old Model T Ford, and I decided to drive out to California, looking for work along the way. But there werent any jobs, and I ended up in Carmel, on the California coast. Thats where I spent a couple of months with John Steinbeck and his collaborator, biologist Ed Ricketts. It was Ed who was especially important to me, because he re-enforced the interest in biology that I had had as a prep school student. And from our long talks about biology, I eventually came up with one of my basic viewpoints: that myth is a function of biology. Its a manifestation of the human imagination which is stirred by the energies of the organs of the body operating against one another. In other words, myth is as fundamental to us as our capacity to speak and think and dream. ~ Excerpt from The Heros Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work. By Joseph Campbell; Phil Cousineau; Stuart L Brown (1990).. San Francisco : Harper & Row. https://youtube/watch?v=e3Ww_2_XQJc
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