Re: holy smoke
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:17:24 +1000
> > I honestly doubt there would be anything like the same interest
> > in Zen or Jesus or such if this list were European-centred rather
> > than American. In this neck of the woods, mysticism & the God
> > immanent & transcendent are embarassingly old hat.
>
>
> There's a moment in the Joseph Campbell power of Myth video series
where
> Moyers asks Campbell what he thinks will become of the world if a new
> mythology (religion) doesn't take hold in the modern world. Campbell
> responds, " Why just look at the New York Times on any given day. There's
> your result of a lack of an overiding mythology"
>
> embarrasssingly old hat? Hmmmm.... More embarrsssing than the state
of
> modern humanity?
Yes ... especially if you take religion to simply mean `something to
believe in'. It's not unreasonable to say that such things as the interest
in UFOs or angels - or indeed, talkshows or mass media magazines - have
become their own form of religion. It's the same feelings expressed in a
different way.
Camille
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