The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
by Joseph Campbell
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Author: Joseph CampbellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-02-09
ISBN: 1577312090
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: New World Library
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Summary: 5 Stars
Campbell draws comparisons between the interweaving dark and light lateral nerves along the spine of the yogic cakras to the caduceus, the crucifixion of Christ, Sumero-Akkadian serpent-god,Ningishzida and twined serpent images in Aztec and Navaho culture as well as others. The common theme is of duality twining around a central spine, support or path. One of those twines or sides is inner and the other outer. We are what they twine around.
The depth of his insight is like viewing a familiar landscape from place both higher and yet closer. Some sentences are very long and need to be deciphered more than read. That is most likely the result of trying to elucidate the ineffable.
Summary of The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell's last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure."
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