Joseph Campbell: The Power Of Myth

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According to Joseph Campbell, the power of myth is to acknowledge the people about sacrifice. It is very unusual to witness sacrifices today. There were many early sacrificial ideas of people sacrificing themselves for the betterment of other humans. He wants us to see the heroic journey in our lives. The hero gets the same adventure that he plans. He believes that when the adventure begins just like the hero we all go through the darkness that we get trapped in. Nature and the environment that we are used to living in changes. Joseph Campbell begins to describe that the everything happens in a system. The most basic meaning behind this is that all humans work as a system and by doing this one can resists of their own spiritual things including