Note to my mom...

I was reading the latest Tom Robbin’s book (Wild Ducks Flying Backwards). I thought you’d find this interesting.

“Joseph Campbell is the world’s most foremost mythologist. Early in his long life, he combined Sir James George Frazer’s discovery that strikingly similar motifs show up in the folktales of all the world’s cultures, with Carl Jung’s notion that myths are metaphors created to illuminate human experience. Thus, doubly inspired, Campbell became a maverick scholar, his books and lectures often scorned by academicians but adored by poets, painters, and enlightened psychoanalysts. His genius was not so much in his exhaustive scholarship, however, as in his intuitive recollection of the importance and relevance of myth to every human soul.”

According to Robbins in 1988 there was a six-part series entitled Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth released by PBS for television after Campbell died in that year. It sounded quite interesting if it is possible to find it through a movie rental service.