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Old 03-30-2008, 04:54 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I'd say that Campbell was talking about other autonomous cultures to which we are not a party and who have developed their culture and rituals due to a unique environment in which they live.
JC is talking about judging and being judged, the affirmation of life at this point, Bill Moyers questions "abominable", and this leads JC to the simile of the two birds on a branch. To me it's about partaking in life.

page 82 in my copy of the Power of Myth, chapter The Journey Inward
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