Thread: Joseph Campbell and Goddess Worship

I recall quite clearly the first time I heard Joseph Campbell use the term Master Race. I was not sure that I had even heard it correctly and so dismissed it. But later in the conversation he used it again and I stopped to think "What was he really saying?" I was absolutely floored when I read up afterwards and saw these terms printed on a page. After that I began to dismiss him and to take anything he said with a large "grain of salt."

From my own experience – through actual dreams and visions, which one can never fake to oneself – the Goddess Mother is a recurrent and powerful Entity within the workings of the Psyche. And then we have the instances of Her Saints, Her Devotees, having been the most powerful Saints in their Civilizations.[/b]

I am begining to think that perhaps she is a higher authority than her son. Having received healing from her myself I am a believer in her power and goodness.

Originally posted by MarthaM
I recall quite clearly the first time I heard Joseph Campbell use the term Master Race. I was not sure that I had even heard it correctly and so dismissed it. But later in the conversation he used it again and I stopped to think \"What was he really saying?\" I was absolutely floored when I read up afterwards and saw these terms printed on a page. After that I began to dismiss him and to take anything he said with a large \"grain of salt.\"

From my own experience – through actual dreams and visions, which one can never fake to oneself – the Goddess Mother is a recurrent and powerful Entity within the workings of the Psyche. And then we have the instances of Her Saints, Her Devotees, having been the most powerful Saints in their Civilizations.

I am begining to think that perhaps she is a higher authority than her son. Having received healing from her myself I am a believer in her power and goodness.[/b]

Indeed, if one pays close attention to the Gospels, the Son had ever been obedient to the Mother. And then, in several instances where people made comment regarding His Mother, Christ was quick to jump in and assert that She was not just due praise for having given Himself birth, but because She was an exemplary Servant of God and Follower of God's Will.

The way we can understand this, is that the Mother dispenses Grace, and that Christ was the first Example of the Perfect Reception of this Grace. We are all supposed to receive this same Grace from Our Lady, and this should make us the Perfect Brothers of Christ, all having the Same Mother.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Myth works when you know what it is about, when it says something to you because it says something about you. We must become mythic as a species if we are to survive. The great individuation of cultures each based on their myths must lead, through an emphasis on their similarities, to a planetization of mankind. For all things are one; the hero has a thousand faces, a unity in diversity. Myth is like a force field; it unfolds and calls forth our own special genius and is the basis of our understanding of our world, ourselves and our own transformation through life’s inevitable trials and tribulations.-Robert Siegel discussing Joseph Campbell on "The Spirit of Things", ABC Radio National, 17 January 1999, 6:05-7:00 pm.

You popularized an attitude, an understanding,
of myth with a remarkable consistency
with that universal myth
that has captured my heart and mind
in this post-war world1.
I have been redesigning, retooling this protean self
and losing myself, giving myself, expanding myself
around this mythic base, this essence, this core,
where a yearning, pathos, has produced a sweetness,
dulce, settling in, an abundance scooped up, an updraft,
scooped up, with a bliss quotient that is inestimable,
indefinable. But there is always the work, the giving,
always more, a doubling of effort, a fatigue, a mystery,
a sadness, a tension, a working out of the myth in my
own life, in its individuality and its collective identity.

Ron Price
17 January 1999

1 Joseph Campbell is the great popularizer of myth in the post-war period, beginning with his first book The Hero With a Thousand Faces(1949). There are many similarities between Campbell and the Baha’i concept of myth, certainly a great deal that has been useful to me.

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