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Originally Posted by Og  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. |
yeah, i really liked the DaVinci code movie, as entertainment only. however, it did intrigue me when pagan symbols (such as the trident) were turned into symbols of evil by christian missionaries.
it always kind of bothered me the way christianity is (to some point) framed around the golden rule (do unto others...) yet technically, their missionaries forced conversion by turning native peoples' own symbols agianst them.
i'm not saying that i side with one religion in perticular, but i do find it to be somewhat noxious.
so are you saying that Campbell is kind of like a real-life langdon?