Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth, Vol. 5 - Love & The Goddess [VHS]
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Actor: Joseph CampbellEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 58 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Mystic Fire Video
Studio: Mystic Fire Video
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Movie Review: All you need is Love
Summary: 5 Stars
This video is divided into two sections.
First, Moyers and Campbell discuss the idea of courtly love as sung by the European troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Campbell asserts that prior to that time, the idea of marriage solely for personal love, "marriage as a person-to-person thing", did not exist "as a social system". There had always been isolated incidences of it, but after the troubadours person-to-person love became "the ideal, at any rate, of love in the Western world". And Campbell points out that this is what makes the West unique: The individual is taught to have faith in the validity of his own experience "against the monolithic system".
In the last half, the notion of the Goddess and goddess mythologies is discussed. Campbell retells the Egyptian myth of Isis in search of her dead spouse Osiris. (Note the parallel between this and similar motifs in classical paganism, alchemy, and even Star Wars - Demeter and Persephone, the adept's search for the drowned King, and Skywalker's rescue of Darth Vader.)
Campbell points out that there is something unnaturally extreme about Biblical mythology, in which the male Creator not only occupies a dominant role, but "takes over [the Goddess'] role", so that she is "wiped out". "The Hebrew term for the Canaanite goddess was 'the Abomination'". Campbell points out that typically agrarian societies have female gods, while nomadic hunters, eg, the Hebrews, worship male deities. Despite this banishment of the Goddess figure, "she came back in the Virgin". Campbell implies either that there is something in the human psyche which requires a female Goddess, or that this archetypal figure was intentionally reintroduced into the religious worship of the West under the guise of the Virgin Mary, or that there is built into the fabric of spiritual reality a feminine principle.
A very enjoyable film with great visuals, as is each episode in this Moyers-Campbell series. Highly recommended.
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