"Riding out the day’s events: The river."
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"Catch the myth… Catch the mystery, catch the drift…"*
Skywalker Ranch California, lessons from George Lucas to his Star Wars Audience, summer of 1987, Joseph Campbell at age 83:
BILL MOYERS: How does one have a profound experience?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: By having a profound sense of the mystery.
BILL MOYERS: But if God is the god we have only imagined, how can we stand in awe of our own creation?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: How can we be terrified by a dream? You have to break past your image of God to get through to the connoted illumination. The psychologist Jung has a relevant saying: “Religion is a defense against the experience of God.”
The mystery has been reduced to a set of concepts and ideas, and emphasizing these concepts and ideas can short-circuit the transcendent, connoted experience. An intense experience of mystery is what one has to regard as the ultimate religious experience.