The Power of Myth

He never seemed bothered by the controversy. He just kept on teaching, opening others to a new way of seeing.

I have a feeling that consciousness and energy are the same thing somehow. Where you really see life energy, there’s consciousness.

Now I think one should go and say, “Bless me, Father, for I have been great, these are the good things I have done this week.” Identify your notion of yourself with the positive, rather than with the negative.

Get a phonograph and put on the music that you really love, even if it’s corny music that nobody else respects. Or get the book you like to read. In your sacred place you get the “thou” feeling of life that these people had for the whole world in which they lived.

the students I meet are very much interested in mythology because myths bring them messages.

read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild,

MOYERS: No, but given the absence of initiation rituals, which have largely disappeared from our society, the world of imagination as projected on that screen serves, even if in a faulty way, to tell that story, doesn’t it?

Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that have then to find expression in symbolic form.

The shaman, for instance, will often have an animal familiar, that is to say, the spirit of some animal species that will be his support and his teacher.