Draw me a Sheep

1. The opening chapter of this book is teaching you to read between the lines. I consider it great, and in 2009 when I started Fin Wake Indra Net, it was the first time I read The Little Prince... and it proved incredibly valuable to me in relocating and understanding North Africa / Sahara Desert thinking about unwrapping a new mythology in my life and the changes of the Arab Spring 2010. It is a great teacher of metaphors

2. The difficulty of communication is right there in the opening pages the tower of Babel and metaphors and depth.

3. Campbell, age 81: "To identify with that divine, immortal aspect of yourself is to identify yourself with divinity.   Now, eternity is beyond all categories of thought. This is an important point in all of the great Oriental religions. We want to think about God. God is a thought. God is a name. God is an idea. But its reference is to something that transcends all thinking. The ultimate mystery of being is beyond all categories of thought. As Kant said, the thing in itself is no thing. It transcends thingness, it goes past anything that could be thought. The best things can't be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood, because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about. The third best are what we talk about. And myth is that field of reference to what is absolutely transcendent."

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Is The Universe Just A Giant Brain? Some Scientists Think So.

1. "because everything is conscious" 

2. Campbell thinks ther eis a signal, a sound, hence his focus on FInnegans Wake - auditory space. 

   1. That's what people are doing all over the place -- dying for metaphors. But when you really realize the sound, "AUM," the sound of the mystery of the word everywhere, then you don't have to go out and die for anything because it's right there all around. Just sit still and see it and experience it and know it. That's a peak experience. 

   2. that's not simply a characteristic of modern Americans, that is the biblical condemnation of nature which they inherited from their own religion and brought with them, mainly from England. God is separate from nature, and nature is condemned of God. It's right there in Genesis: we are to be the masters of the world. But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.

   3. The Garden of Eden is a metaphor for that innocence that is innocent of time, innocent of opposites, and that is the prime center out of which consciousness then becomes aware of the changes. 

   4. "AUM" is a word that represents to our ears that sound of the energy of the universe of which all things are manifestations.

   5. The initial sound (a Christian might say, the creative Word), out of which the whole world was precipitated, the big bang, the pouring of the transcendent energy into and expanding through the field of time. As soon as it enters the field of time, it breaks into pairs of opposites, the one becomes two. Now, when you have two, there are just three ways in which they can relate to one another: one way is of this one dominant over that; another way is of that one dominant over this; and a third way is of the two in balanced accord. It is then, finally, out of these three manners of relationship that all things within the four quarters of space derive. There is a verse in Lao-tzu's Tao-te Ching which states that out of the Tao, out of the transcendent, comes the One. Out of the One come Two; out of the Two come Three; and out of the Three come all things.