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Continue reading...Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
It's hard to believe that it has taken modern science 200 years to catch up to Lamarck. One of the common threads on Nautis Project has always been the incompleteness of a biological theory of evolution, morphology, and memory. It is these gaps in our knowledge that people like Lamarck, Darwin, Bergson, and Goethe tried [...]
Continue reading...Joseph Campbell Foundation
Saturday, April 19, 2008
The Joseph Campbell Foundation website has been redesigned. The new site is really nice. They've done a great job tying together the many sections into a single design. It's an excellent site to discuss Campbell's books and ideas. It has an active, intelligent discussion group that has also given rise to several "Round Table" groups [...]
Continue reading...Indra’s Lesson
Monday, January 29, 2007
There is a wonderful story in one of the Upanishads about the god Indra. Now, it happened at this time that a great monster had enclosed all the waters of the earth, so there was a terrible drought, and the world was in a very bad condition. It took Indra quite a while to realize [...]
Continue reading...Featured Conversation: A Woman’s Hero Journey
Monday, September 19, 2005
In our Conversations of a Higher Order, threaded discussion forums, over 25,700 messages have been posted! This week we feature A Woman’s Hero Journey: Is it different?, where JessicaP says: I would love to hear other people’s thoughts on whether you think the hero’s journey is different for women than it is for men. I’ve [...]
Continue reading...Why Speak With Symbols?
Monday, September 5, 2005
In our Conversations of a Higher Order, threaded discussion forums, over 25,500 messages have been posted‚—a thousand more since our last featured thread in July! In this featured conversation, Nandu begins:We speak of the symbolism and metaphor of myth. It is part and parcel of any art form, too. Why? What is the universal attraction [...]
Continue reading...Practical Campbell: Smoke or Mirrors?
Monday, August 1, 2005
“The occult” – an emotionally charged term evoking sinister associations, everything from fraudulent and greedy fortune tellers to satanic rituals, images reinforced on movie screens and in pulpits across the country … but is this the reality, or merely projections of the public imagination? Is the practice of occult arts–particularly popular forms of divination, including [...]
Continue reading...Featured Conversation: The Nature of Fear
Monday, July 11, 2005
Is the root of all fear the fear of death? Are fears a teaching tool where the ultimate aim is to confront and move beyond fear? Is fear an essential driving component of creativity? Is fear a human quality that makes the living of life even more of a precious experience? This conversation is in [...]
Continue reading...Practical Campbell: The Myth of Zimmer and Campbell
Monday, June 13, 2005
Few people in the United States have heard of Heinrich Zimmer — and fewer still would know who he was had Heinrich Zimmer and Joseph Campbell never met. It’s just as likely that Campbell’s life would have followed a far different trajectory, absent this relationship. Zimmer exerted a profound and undeniable influence on the direction [...]
Continue reading...Featured Conversation: Campbell and Jung
Monday, May 23, 2005
In our on-line, Conversations of a Higher Order, threaded discussion forums, over 23,600 messages have been posted. In this featured conversation, Ritske from Edinburgh, UK, who is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh, presents the following for discussion: “I am interested–puzzled in fact–by Campbell’s assertion that myth is an expression of [...]
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