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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2009
Parabola magazine has, in its most recent issue, a transcript of an old talk by Joseph Campbell, “The Vitality of Myth.” It’s not available online, but it addresses one of Jung’s favorite questions: “What myth are you living by?” The question sounds academic and inert. You might ask: How much difference could a superstition make? [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2009
The When I was a kid, there was a book on our shelves entitled Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? This was in the 1970s, and I recall thinking the premise was absurd. But we now know the author was off by only seven years. The fears that dominate our psyches, that seem so [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2008
See this fish? He’s bad news. This is not just any fish. This fish nearly punched the lights out of the Enlightenment. Oh, he seems likable enough for a red gurnard. But at parties, after he gets into the brandy, he parades around and insists on being called Aspitrigla cuculus of the Scorpaeniformes (I understand [...]
