Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (Collected Work of Joseph Campbell Series) by Joseph Campbell Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (Collected Work of Joseph Campbell Series)
Book Review: A joyful exploration of a fascinating subject
Summary: 5 Stars
Having not much more background in Asian religion than a Zen Buddhism class I took to fulfill a distribution requirement in college 20 years ago, I approached this book with some anticipation and some anxiety. My main memory of those long-ago days in that lecture class was of reading and discussing religious texts that seemed to have been written by another species--the basic assumptions were beyond me, and my professor (who had spent his adult life immersed in the study of esoteric Buddhism) had a hard time understanding why we didn't just get it. But I'd been fascinated by what little I'd understood and always wanted to find a more accessible guide to the ins and outs of Asian myth. This book is it! Campbell, who I knew from Power of Myth, lays out the basic principles that underlie Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism (and he touches on Taoism too) with the same sort of humor and wisdom that I'd expected. What a fun book to start the summer reading season with!
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