Campbell: That's the whole business of myth. Why do we like to talk about these things again! Because it puts us back in touch with the essential archetypology of our spiritual life. Going through a ritual day after day keeps you on the line.

                                                                              -Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, THE POWER OF MYTH
More from the text @ a study page re Trump XI - Trump XII

 

 

Toni Pecoraro - Labirinto 25

                      

 

SACRED SPACE - CHARTRES

Moyers: And what do you find there?

Campbell: It takes me back to a time when these spiritual principles informed the society. You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is. When you approach a medieval town, the cathedral is the tallest thing in the place. When you approach an eighteenth-century town, it is the political palace that's the tallest thing in the place. And when you approach a modern city, the tallest places are the office buildings, the centers of economic life.        
               [rt., Lycian coin that suggests the dancing, spiral, spinning energy of the "troytown" or labyrinth, a possible clue to a defensive outer wall around an ancient city called Troy. See 'Float' for more Lycian art]

If you go to Salt Lake City, you see the whole thing illustrated right in front of your face. First the temple was built, right in the center of the city. This is the proper organization because the temple is the spiritual center from which everything flows in all directions. Then the political building, the Capitol, was built beside it, and it's taller than the temple. And now the tallest thing is the office building that takes care of the affairs of both the temple and the political building. That's the history of Western civilization. From the Gothic through the princely period of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth centuries, to this economic world that we're in now.

Moyers: So when you go to Chartres--

Campbell: --I'm back in the Middle Ages. I'm back in the world that I was brought up in as a child, the Roman Catholic spiritual-image world, and it is magnificent.

Moyers: You're not a man who swims long in nostalgia. It's not just the past that moves you when you go there, is it?

Campbell: No, it's the present. That cathedral talks to me about the spiritual information of the world. It's a place for meditation, just walking around, just sitting, just looking at those beautiful things.

Moyers: The cathedral at Chartres which you love so much also expresses a relationship of the human to the cosmos, doesn't it?

Campbell: Yes. The cathedral is in the form of a cross, with the altar in the middle there. It's a symbolic structure. Now many churches are built as though they were theaters. Visibility is important. In the cathedral, there is no interest in visibility at all. Most of what goes on goes on out of your sight. But the symbol is what's important there, not just watching the show. Everybody knows the show by heart. You've seen it ever since you were a six-year-old.

Moyers: Why keep going to the cathedral, then?

 

 


Harry Potter at the Labyrinth, Professor Dumbledore, the Tri-Wizard Cup [GOF]
Dowsers use subtle energy with sixth and seventh sensory powers to find the center.

 

 



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 Enchanted Maze game [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire] &  Muse over candle light!
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