Joseph Cambell & Our Lack of Myth

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…patterns that exist between myths, between cultures, between global problems, and between people themselves are too obvious to ignore. And the patterns of how our culture has developed show a blatant breakdown in the foundations of our systems: myths. Myths give us rituals and rites of passage, which in turn shape the given society. Until we can accept the basis of our civilization as global truths, we may see more water pulsing from the cracks.