bliss
November 2008 
~Omni-Peephole: Joseph Campbell On Love, The Holy Grail, and God
~C4Chaos
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
"Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word "Sat" means being. "Chit" means consciousness. "Ananda" means bliss or rapture. I thought, "I don't know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don't know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being." I think it worked."
Source: The Power of Myth, Page: 120
Speaking of the four Ls, by some weird serendipity I happen to bump into this classic Joseph Campbell interview. It's a video segment of The Power of Myth. In this video Joseph Campbell talked about Love, the Holy Grail, and God. It's a cool hyper-overview of Campbell's massive knowledge of mythology. Campbell's beer-goggles is a perfect example of DEPTH and SPAN. This video a must-see.
I {heart} you all!
~C (for Campbell rocks!)
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Dude thats crazy, I just put the audio version of TPOM on my nano and was listening to it today in the car! JC rocks!
hehehe. that's blissful serendipity… :) i'm planning on getting the DVD.
TPOM is brilliant! Joe Campbell is/was a genius. Devoted his whole life to myth and his wife. I love the guy. I wish I could have met him before he died.
Definitely get the DVD collection. I have it. I've seen the series many times and never get tired of watching it.
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