Review based on an Introductory essay at the beginning of the work

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"Dust in the air suspended marks the place where a story ended"( T S Eliot Four Quartets). The Astronauts walked on the dust of the moon after the moon was despiritualised and the dust was not the dust of lost souls but remnants of physical processes in the long distant past. Frobenius sees the human race to be maturing toward a telos in which the Holy Ghost no longer needs institutional assistance and can speak directly to mens hearts. Campbell neglects to unravel the mystery of the oracles and the muses.

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Shakespeare is a Philosophical Poet because his works do not just touch on Philosophical themes but rather embodies the ideas of Aristotelian and Kantian Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophical Psychology. His poetic intuitions are clearly set in a Philosophical framework

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Schizophrenia takes many forms and all forms are designated by psychiatric medicine as psychotic conditions. Paranoid Schizophrenia is concerned with the defence mechanisms of splitting, projection and denial (that one is ill, for example)

Campbell refers to shamanic crises in this context and likens their experience unto the hero embarking on a long and dangerous Odyssey into the unknown. Jungs theory of the collective archetypes of the unconscious is a very different kind of account to that we find in Freud, in spite of the claim by both Psychologists to be influenced by Kant.

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War and Peace Mythologies are related to Philosophy in various complex ways but insofar as Ancient Greece originated with Socratic reflections on the Justice and its relation to the Holy, the Mythologies of Peace are more closely related to Ancient Greek than the Mythologies of War. Zarathurianism and its light/dark, truth/illusion, life-death oppositions appears Heraclitean.

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The Romantic idea of Hell and Satan began with the troubadours celebration of Amor as the good-in-itself worth the most terrible of consequences. The Kantian Hidden Plan might be proof of Gods love for us in spite of humanity failing the test of our love for him. William Blake: Hell is not that bad and Amor may be worth paying the price of eternal damnation.

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The power of Light may be constituted of many light bulbs but such a power transcends these material empirical things which of course in a sense explain the origin of the light. Campbells mythological explanations of Consciousness do not necessarily contradict the metaphysical accounts of Aristotle and Kant which leave the possibility of a mythology within the bounds of reason open. The Philosophical accounts of the many powers of aesthetic and cognitive processes which arise as vicissitudes of Consciousness may contain powerful arguments against mythological accounts relying on one power such as the imagination.

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Oriental Art is differently structured to Western Occidental Art whose condition features a self- sufficient independent object intentionally created for an aesthetic purpose which may have a moral message. The Art of Yoga is an instinctively grounded activity in which it is the imagination that plays the leading role in the activity. In contrast to Western Art whose focus is on the external world of self-sufficient independent objects that have an inter-sensory character.

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