Yah, I got kind of kicked into it by seeing the daVinci Code DVD over thanksgiving. The movie/book is fiction and it's hard to tell what is true and what is made up to fit. The point is that Campbell is the real deal where symbols and common threads in mythology are concerned. And he's definitely not christian centric. He's a big fan of the underlying meaning of hindu and buddhist faiths and paints them as lightyears ahead of us in understanding of the human psyche.
His big beef is that western spirituality has gone and made their religious symbols into concrete idols and thus has become a collection of dead spiritualities stuck 1500 years in the past. Eastern spiritualities, on the other hand, have no such problem and are equally applicable today in the modern scientific world as they were 1500-5000 years ago.
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