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“Our kids lose their faith in the religion that was taught to them, and they go inside.” Campbell is talking about how myths are important to teach people, especially youth, about their lives and society. Without proper myths, they isolate themselves from society because they don’t understand it.

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I can't find the actual page number however I appreciated the part where he talks about imperfections. I know myself to be pretty close to a perfectionist, always harping on myself for my mistakes, "imperfections". However, It is refreshing to here someone talk about how they are what makes us different. They are what separate
us from everyone else.

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"The only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting" (Campbell 3). I found this to be interesting because it is really true. You can't describe a person perfectly without describing their imperfections.

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It was interesting how Campbell illustrated the role of leaders in our society. Instead of being individuals in power, he paints them as these people who put aside themselves for the express purpose of filling a certain role. For example, in a courthouse, we stand as the judge walks in. We aren't standing for the judge themselves and their personal biases and ideas, but for the role that they are playing as an impartial and unbiased leader. He relates this to mythology, saying that the role of leadership itself is a representation of myth.

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“Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of life”(5)

A myth reflects reality and aspects of human nature and life that aren’t shown much.

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I found they're idea of marriage very interesting. They mention many things such as abandonment.

"Daddy will fall in love with some little nubile girl and run off, Mother will be left with an empty house and heart..." (page 8)

I think that the way that Campbell describes this answer to Moyers question was interesting.

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“It is in a sense, doing one’s own thing, but the one isn’t just you, it’s the two together as one.” (Campbell 7)

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“‘Did these stories begin to collide with your Catholic faith?’” ‘No, there was no collision. The collision with my religion cam much later in relation to scientific studies and things of that kind.’” I found the second text of speech to hint that facts and science is what collides with mythology and not so much other mythologies.

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One thing that I found interesting was his comparison of the eye of God to a pyramid. I wonder how he came to put those two things together and I thought it was a very interesting perspective.

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A moment that I found interesting was when they were talking about marriages, "marriage is this reunion of the self with the self" (Campbell 6). When they are talking about marriage they are discussing how marriage is about two souls reuniting after being separated for a period of time. This interpretation makes it seem like we live many lives, and in each life we reunite with the same person, or soul.

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One part I found interesting was when Tonio told us that "I admire these cold, proud beings who adventure upon the paths of great and daemonic beauty and despise 'mankind'; but I do not envy them." I thought about it as admiring someone's perfections and being in awe of them, but you would never want to have a friendship with such a person. As they said, humanity is imperfections.

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“When you’re down on the lower levels of this pyramid, you will be either on one side or on the other. But when you get to the top, the points all come together, and there the eye of God opens”

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I thought it was very interesting when Campbell said that “it is the imperfections of life that are lovable.” When I read that and thought about it for a second, I realized that it was completely true. It was very interesting.

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“That is why some people have a very hard time loving God, because there’s no imperfections there. You can be in awe, but that would not be real love. It’s Christ on the cross that becomes lovable.” (Campbell 4)

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"I wonder what happens to children who don't have those fixed stars, that known horizon--those myths?" (Campbell 16)

I found this interpretation of Moyers' idea of myth different from what I typically perceive as myth. Myths, in my point of view, are made-up stories meant to give a warning or teach a lesson to a certain audience. However, as a child, Moyers saw myth as a way to access and be aware of the presence of God in his life. The fact that he combines his faith with the pagan mythology of other religions is interesting to me.

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“Perfection would be a bore, wouldn’t it?” (Moyers 4). Once I had read this part, I found it interesting on how true the statement was. As Moyer came to this epiphany, I sort of realized it at the same time. By being perfect, you are technically achieving societies standards of “perfection”. With imperfections, it makes us so unique and open to new ideas.

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“We’re learning technologies, getting information” (Campbell, 11). I find this interesting because previously, Campbell was talking about how they’re wisdoms of life. But, many people use them as a science to help learn about life at that time and area, and maybe find how the myth relates to history. This makes me think that myths aren’t just about learning about people and characteristics of these people, and how to use these traits to help further yourself in life. Myths offer more information than just that. It can teach you about a whole society.

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“People say that what we’re all seeking is. A meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually fee the rapture of being alive” - shows that Campbell realizes that seeking a meaning for life is not just the experiences or places that we can go to, but finding our inner self. Page 4

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“That’s why some people

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I found the moment where they talked about modern Mythology and how that can take place in many different ways and how Joseph's son finds it in Star Wars. The comparison to me was quite interesting.

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One part that stood out to me was, “Reason is one kind of thinking. But thinking things out isn’t necessarily reason in this sense” (Campbell 37).
I think that most people believe that thinking is reasoning. However, Campbell points out the difference between the two by using the example of the mouse and the wall. I liked his explanation, “Reason has to do with finding the ground of being,” (38) because I thought it was meaningful and thoughtful.

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"I cherish that image: my hometown love, the feeling you get got that place, no matter how long you've been away or even if you never return." When I read this quote and the story that came before it, I instantly thought about the Odyssey and Odysseus' need for home. It also made me think  about how I feel about Darien, being my hometown, will I ever feel the same way described about Darien?

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A moment that I found interesting is when Moyers comments on how how Campbell has changed the definition of a myth "from the search for meaning to the experience of meaning." (5)
It is not only the search for meaning, but a myth also tells us how to experience it. Campbell also adds that is is the experience of life. This really sums up the meaning of a myth.

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When Campbell says “They [kids] make them [myths] up themselves. This is why we have graffiti all over the city” (Campbell 9). This moment in the chapter intrigued me because he believes that now or at the time he was writing it that graffiti represents the myths that kids make up and believe. And I thought this was an interesting thought because I have never heard any think Ike this explanation for why there is graffiti in a city.

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I noticed how on pages 6 and 7, Campbell says multiple times that marriage is between a man and a woman which I thought was very ignorant of him. He says, “if we live a proper life, if our minds are on the right qualities regarding the person of the opposite sex, we will find our proper male and female counterpart.” (6) and, “male and female, which is what a marriage is.” (7). When I was reading this section, I wondered if he said this because of the time that the book was published or for some other reason