The Virgin Birth

[@fliegeroh]

I have to say, that I felt watching "The Power of Myth" when if first broadcast, that my life was changed. I felt I had just sat at the foot of "the Master of Wisdom". Joe Campbell explained so many things and helped me think about life in a new way. Thank you Joe.

[@GrantTarredus]

This describes my own experience of discovering Campbell through the series when it first aired in 1988. I can’t think of anything before or since having such an immediate or powerful impact on my thinking; I was shocked to find that my exposure to Campbell’s thought and sense of wonder actually WAS changing my life profoundly, however trite the phrase. In the years since I learned that hundreds of thousands like ourselves were just as transformed by the wellspring of inspiration that flowed from this remarkable man like an electric current. My gratitude towards Campbell is inexpressible, as is my gratitude to Bill Moyers for posing exactly the right questions at every beat throughout all six hours. I generally avoid absolutes, but Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth is the best television series I’ve ever come across, period. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it, because those six hours feel more like six minutes.

[@cyprokka]

I only first watched it about a year ago and the same thing happened to me. He really was a master of wisdom.

[@craigwhitley1529]

Likewise! I was already interested in these ideas but when I encountered this series in about 1989 it was life changing. The truths presented are profound.

[@claytong1652]

I was turned on to him by a good friend and, seriously, in a matter of minutes it seemed, my understanding of religion/mythology changed completely. Everything he says just makes perfect sense. Everyone should watch his videos.

[@veganm8918]

@@craigwhitley1529 It is interesting. However his belief that you can have compassion towards another sentient being and kill and eat them is delusional. This is particularly the case when 99% of all meat comes from factory farms and endless cruelty.

[@greg.gutierrez]

Everybody should be watching this. Netflix has a full series

[@Patrix8558]

not on ours over here :(

[@ssahaj17]

What's the name of the series?

[@tylerdye6920]

Name?

[@greg.gutierrez]

Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, but I think it is no longer in netflix, you can rent it on amazon

[@greg.gutierrez]

@@ssahaj17 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyer

[@elisabethseaton6521]

Joseph Campbell was one of my heroes. Brilliant, compassionate and honorable

[@Levelupliv]

it's mesmerizing to watch him speak about both western and eastern spirituality, religion and mythology... his comprehensive depth of the subject is marvel to behold.

[@garybarrett2335]

I'm almost finished reading The Hero of Thousand Faces. This book along with so much more of Joseph Campbell's work has connected so many dots in my understanding of religions and the meanings associated with mythology.

[@collapsingquantumwav]

Absolutely!

[@michaelelliott1212]

@Dee Seee why do you choose to judge?

[@peaceonearth5742]

Me too. Awesome Book. The Hero! 1000. We have been reborn!

[@chinitowon]

2020 has given us vision so that as a collective, mankind can prepare for its virgin birth. It is my hope. In the meantime, I will keep working on myself, keep improving out of love for others.

[@GrantTarredus]

My brother Rodrigo, I thank you very sincerely for these most beautiful words and for sharing your hope with us. In my heart I have nurtured this longing for a world enlightened by love and empathy for 60 years now, but only in recent years did I begin to somehow feel - in a very strange manner that I can’t describe or even understand - that such an age might actually be drawing near, and possibly even dawn within my lifetime. I’ve mentioned this to virtually no one, because there’s so little that I could say. I haven’t had any experience or epiphany, I haven’t witnessed anything, and I’m not a believer in revelation; nothing has been imparted to me. I’ve never seen a spirit guide, an extraterrestrial, a UFO or ghost, and I’m not religious unless we call my love for our roughly 7,846,000,000 family members a religion. There’s nothing I could point to that might help me convey what I’m sensing lately, nothing tangible to bear witness for me apart, possibly, from a quickening pulse. Still, I can’t deny an immensely strong sensation persuading me just shy of certainty that something momentous is almost due to appear over the horizon. Could it be what you describe as our collective virgin birth? I wonder. Or as my late friend Forry Ackerman liked to say, “It wonders me.” Thanks again, brother. Love

[@NuffinsMcDindu]

​@@GrantTarredus The divine hyperintelligent vibration gives birth to our consciousness bringing forth physical man into existence inside this realm we call earth, that which we dwell is inside the mind of "GOD"; MAN is GODs "physical" avatar in this realm; we all are GOD separated through ego and personality. GOD and MAN co-exist. The infinite and the finite. MAN is the creative force of GOD, GOD acts on mans behalf constantly creating this reality as man perceives his truths to be. What man believes becomes reality. The duality of man and god, and the mind there-of is what we are witnessing; people were asleep so GOD was asleep. Reality had become what the evil side of GODS mind wanted to become "evil" "won" but evil never can win really. As the saying goes "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Evils only choice is to brainwash the good men but the great awakening showed enough good men the need to fight. People don't understand the significance of what we are going through which is truly to be the ultimate battle between good and evil and why the struggle of this battle is important. Struggle is what helps man grow to know and understand GOD. Good always come to know GOD while evil disregard GOD for their own made up god as evil is a manifestation of materialistic greed but evil cannot see that our realm is not physical but is an illusion; such a magnificent light show movie projection being put on by GOD at all times for our entertainment so that we may grow in spirit, and knowledge in ways that we desire. Its all so extremely complicated yet so simple at the same time. Our imaginations dictate reality via our subconscious mind(GODS MIND) that we all co-share and co-create within. Our conscious mind is the gatekeeper to GODS MIND in which our goal is to only let loving thoughts, GOOD GODLY thoughts enter; rejecting evil thought and banishing it from existing in our realm and that is what is currently going on; the more we have understanding of our surroundings the better GOD can help us organize by divine intelligence. The great awakening is GOD auditing the realm; and the consensus of our reality dictates the next. The new reality that is being birth by our collective consciousness is this virgin birth. Where fresh thought untainted by evil will exist as MAN enters into a new stage of spiritual evolution while those who are not ready will go off into another reality and relive and relearn from their mistakes as we all have time and time again. The best way to help our world change is by actively denying evil access to dwell in this realm, its pretty simple. See something you don't like, reject it completely within your soul and GOD acts in miraculous ways to act on your behalf, and the same is said for good. Will good into the world on someone elses behalf and GOD acts on yours; once everyone is doing this our realm will be paradise once again.

[@GrantTarredus]

@@NuffinsMcDindu I understand and appreciate you! I haven’t the time to write the full reply you deserve, so in its place l offer a quotation I cherish. You reminded me of it by saying that evil can never really win. “If you believe ‘nice guys finish last,’ you don’t know where the finish line really is.” I’m paraphrasing, but that’s close. It was said by Garry Shandling, who meant it as sincerely as I do.

[@yvonnepeters1914]

The Great Awakening. 🙏

[@yvonnepeters1914]

@@NuffinsMcDindu It's the "BELIEF in Two powers" that has been man's downfall. By accepting (eating from the tree of good and evil [Adam and Eve], that you fall from Grace and live in the world of Maya. This IS a simulated reality and once our current Apocalypse is over, the Great Awakening happens and the Rapture takes place. God IS the ONLY POWER and that means ONLY GOOD. Nothing to fight or resist. If you resist evil, you're in Maya. God IS Omnipresent, so who am I talking to? Lol.

[@jakemegabyte896]

I like how this channel releases new Joseph Campbell clips every 5 years. It's nice to see you guys keeping the content flowing. AHAHAHA

[@SP-ny1fk]

When you spell your laughs starting with an 'A' instead of an 'H' it sounds like you're screaming.

[@monicaprescher3852]

@@SP-ny1fk that’s interesting as I didn’t see it as that. I guess each to his own interpretation of another’s words.

[@SP-ny1fk]

@@monicaprescher3852 Ahahaha What you say is true though, we are forever talking past one-another, and meaning seems to be hard to pass from one person to another

[@JimiJah]

Thank you Campbell Foundation for posting! We were needing these contents more than ever.

[@MLife1000]

In school the teacher would ask the class, “what’s the meaning of the story?”. Stories are powerful as they pass down information using symbolism.

[@jarrodlsandoval9520]

I just came across the Campbell Foundation about a week ago...im so grateful I did. Thank you all...love and light!😉

[@patrickodonovan5066]

This was beautiful. Thank you for posting it.

[@brubeck1]

What a unique man this guy was .the way he explains these things all ways makes me want to keep listening instead of me usual thinking yeah yeah I've heard it all before.

[@arrjee9474]

16 years ago I just came off the road, from work touring the country. It was Sunday afternoon and I laid in bed surffing the TV channels when I came across this broadcast, The Power of Myth. I had the same experience as you, I was captured. I began thinking, there must be a book about this stuff and sure enough I found the transcript of this broadcast! I must’ve read that book 4 or 5 times over and then I would reread certain sections, as well as buy his other publications. It was a pivital point in my life and now coming across these videos I’m caught again, but with a little more understanding.

[@monicaprescher3852]

@@arrjee9474 that was a wonderful read, thank you for sharing with us.

[@peaceonearth5742]

Thank you Professor Campbell. Hats off to Your Timeless Wisdom. J.C. ❤️

[@ecstaticeclectic]

I could listen to Joseph all day. His understanding of wisdom creating knowledge, yeah all day......

[@peterpaulparker]

Amazing explanations. I have been researching the chakra system with my work and this is such a great way of describing it. Joseph Campbell is an amazing speaker. He really puts aspects into light so simply they are easy to understand. Because human beings are being coerced into just seeking pleasure in todays world, we are being help in the lower three centres, or chakras, and this is a problem. When you try to speak to people about higher concepts that the lower three chakras, they think you are a crazy man. Times are changing rapidly and this knowledge seems to be spreading like wildfire, which is amazing. Thanks to Joseph and all his research as he breaks all this down so well. Thank you so much for sharing. I am grateful. :)

[@liljade53]

Buddhism, which comes from Hinduism, has done wonderful things for India, hasn't it.

[@peterpaulparker]

@@liljade53 Yes. And hinduism really is just the Vedic principles of life put into stories so people can understand much more easily. Thanks for sharing. :)

[@liljade53]

@@peterpaulparker it solved the problem of the caste system oh, it's solved the problem of the horrific poverty. I wonder why so many Indian doctors have moved to the US to practice?

[@liljade53]

@@peterpaulparker it stopped the horrible practice of burning widows on the funeral pyre of their husband. Or was that the British who put an end to that?

[@peterpaulparker]

@@liljade53 Your talking about the corruption of the Vedic system. Not the actual Vedic system. There is a big difference there. And one many people get confused with. Thanks for sharing. :)

[@matthafer2415]

2:33 ...Its you.

[@ly6203]

Being Born AS a Spiritual being at the Center of your Heart, Into a Person of compassion and Love to the Next one!This is what the parthogenesis means! What an extraordinary intellgent explanation, thank you so much!

[@gregoryw.jenkins8036]

Did you perhaps mean parthenogenesis? In either case, a very interesting interpretation that might require some time to digest.

[@stephenthomason5983]

I would have to say, that when one really gets Joe Campbell, one realizes its not under discussion anymore... ✌💛

[@guileweaver1574]

I miss this man. RIP Guru Campbell

[@Metatron141]

Im a Bible believing Christian and I find Campbell's analysis of Virginia Birth fascinating.

[@writingref]

Campbell called all mythology (which t him included the Bible) the penultimate truth, because the ultimate truth is something that cannot be put into words. He was much like Albert Einstein, who looked for a unified theory for all the sciences . . . but with myth, Campbell looked for what Unified all of our spirituality. As a Christian, I think that kind of study expands our understanding of God well beyond the scriptures which were left for us.

[@gianfrancofronzi8368]

If I see another video like this, I symbolically will warn myself that there is a lot of people out there that symbolically, are not on the ball, and could use, symbolically, a lesson on symbolism.

[@fabhescher2108]

I love you Professor Campbell. Thank you!

[@Lethargie55]

Where can I watch the whole "The Power of Myth"?

[@JosephCampbellFoundation]

It is available to stream on Amazon Prime, and Itunes. JCF doesn't own all of the rights to the program, so it is still necessary to pay to watch. Its worth it. Find more ways to watch here: www.jcf.org/works/titles/joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-with-bill-moyers-video/

[@Patrix8558]

@@JosephCampbellFoundation oohhh, not on Amazon Prime Video in my country :(

[@darkwolve]

This info should be free to all. It's a shame anyone would ever have to pay a penny for it.

[@donovanjones4175]

Holy f this is such good stuff. How did we not get taught this? I would have liked religion much better.

[@dannycalley7777]

D.J. ………………..its better than that crap coming out of the pulpits !!!!!!!!!!

[@ffxiarcadius]

join the freemasons

[@a-testforthefuture1817]

If they teach you what you should know You would be higher Ascending everyday Can’t have that. No no no😂 Keep them dumbed down and keep chipping in to that collection plate for that Mercedes Benz payment they got Besides never put your whole life into one book written by over 40 Authors Written over thousands of years and written from an observers perspective And you must sin or Jesus died for nothing 🙉the buffoonery must cease✅ ur choice

[@derekstaroba]

@@a-testforthefuture1817 agree with the first statement but you can read the Bible (or any scripture) and get use while not being dogmatic. It sounds like you think you have to accept every single thing as literal fact which is just silly it's about how it can help you the Bible says for example to worship God in spirit and truth

[@mictlantecuhtli64]

Darkness Rules

[@johngibson30]

What he described happened to me. It's the same as what happens when you actually die.

It's always amusing to watch Joe's patience with Bill's Protestant Christian literalism.💙

[@theculturewatch2414]

This is the answer - why we are here - what should my life’s purpose be.. etc etc

[@lovenikolatesla369]

Never understood why so many humans looked at virginity as a negative thing its the most valuable gift given to us all just once so my advice to anyone who's a virgin is to hold on to your virginity until you meet your life-long partner giving it to someone undeserving will be a lifetime regret. Do you think there's going to be any future great philosophers from this year 2021? Just take a look at what most of our future humans aspire to be and ask people from the age 12 to 21 and they want to be either like the Kardashians or a basketball player or a famous social media influencer its looking pretty bleak.

[@dudeofwest4984]

Now always remember this guy was in George Lucas’ own word a major mentor to him, when you watch Star Wars the next time.

[@sonsofliberty9170]

Dude! Thanks for the Truth!! 🇺🇸💯

[@goran.rukljac]

He is the reason why we all went crazy watching Star Wars :)

[@SP-ny1fk]

Or Indiana Jones

[@greggonzalez859]

May the Force be with you and “Remember Luke (that’s you symbolically my brother), Fear and Anger....The Darkside”.

[@yvonnepeters1914]

He hit the nail on the head here. 🙏

[@el-uk1zp]

if you understand and accept this congratulations brethren ❤️

[@temujinnsavage3]

I love this... Blessings

[@env0x]

I thought the story of adam eating the apple was supposed to be the allegory or man's awakening into a higher level consciousness....

[@samuelikonallaholokpo9063]

It wasn't a woo woo conspiracy theory thing...it was listen man, I found Power. I found me. This is what it all means.

[@rgcwow]

Disjointed, hacked up, out of context bits and pieces of Campbell"s message? The world needs, for example, the full Moyer / Campbell interviews uncut, But this foumdation is instead hacking Campbell's core messages up into tiny little disjointed hacked up bits and pieces. They are doing that as teasers to commercially monetize Campbel's work. The very nature of Campell's works must remain freely available, intact, in context, and sui- generis on a "giving foot forward" monetization model, which primarily is not the JC Foundation monetization model. Does this greedy foundation have copyrights on these works? Why can't anyone post these works up on IE. You Tube etc. free uncut unedited? For instance the full uncut Campbel / Moyers series. Why is Moyer not acting to counter this outrage? How to obtain these works intact & unedited now like when Campbell was alive without profiteering? That would be Campbell's will. The Campbell Foundation, in the guise of proliferating Campbell's body of work, is instead fragmenting it for commercial monetary motives. So aggravating! Seriously any effort to keep Campbell's work free, and free of being hacked up, and free of being exploited by the world system, then count us in. Metaphorically speaking: God was out for a stroll one day with the devil following along & imitating God. God was carrying something "he" had picked up along the way. The devil runs up and asks. "whatcha got there God?" God replies, "I got the truth." The devil then says," give it to me & I will organize it for you!". JC Foundation you need to stop "money changing on the temple steps".

[@gustafschmidt5346]

Incarnation vs incarceration. Pretty big misspelling.

[@NeterRafi77]

Incarnation is an incarceration

[@gustafschmidt5346]

@@NeterRafi77 lol. True enough.

[@darkwolve]

I was born 9/5/1987 at 6:38am. That's within the last known record of us being within the constellation of Virgo in the zodiac, specifically "The House of Bread" area, aka "Bethlehem" in Arabic. "Born of a virgin in Bethlehem". It's referring to the specific time in the Zodiac sign for the birth of the Christ. It's astrology. Very common back then. Not some miraculous conception impossibility on the biological level.

[@kerryburns6041]

There was probably some confusion at the inn, you know what it´s like at Christmas ...

[@babagama4232]

Can u plz write some more about this?????

[@infinitedestiny6328]

Thank you.

[@wendymonette9958]

Fascinating.

[@krislindemann3277]

If you say, that the relationship to God/Spirit is the deepest you have, many people think that you have sexual problems. Isn't that crazy? All twisted. Golden...I liked that. 🔥🕯️

[@johngibson8668]

Joesph Campbell is spot on I have experienced every aspect of what he has explained. But the second centre is more associated with the prostrate (orgasm) as opposed to the penis (ejaculation).

[@julielabelle2783]

The Virgin Birth// Kundalini awakening.🕊️

[@Elvengem]

Much like the Athena's virgin maidens who bore baskets and sang songs,they were called Parthenos or parthenon,and this is word Matthew used because he knew what they were based on the hebrews' own religious consecrated virgins,and newly married devotees to God. the Almah (young maidens) were a type of virgin, and not a regular Bethulah virgin because Alamot(plural for Almah) were a religious devotee of the nun type order of Alamot,and this would be like a while after she had just had marriage relations perhaps a couple times so she had no longer any firm hyman by the first season after marriage,and she still was a Almah for that first season or for perhaps first month. Anyway,if one says matthew had a bad translation,that is unacceptable because the gospels are infallible word of God and therefore he could not have made a mistake in referring to isaiah's prophey for mary as a virgin,and the story says she was because luke 1:34“ How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” on being told she was to give birth while she was bethrothed as a Almah religious devotee but was not fully married yet nor had relations yet. but even new married devotees for the first month or first season could still be called Almah,and were not necessarily virgins but could be too or had just recently departed from virginity.In mary's case,she was virgin almah still,because she was a religious devotee type nun.1 Corinthians 7:25 mentions parthenon virgins,and 2 corinthians 11:2 is virgins too parthenon,and they knew Almah meant a type of virgin and or as in proverbs;a newly married virgin who had just departed virginity.

[@ardalla535]

It's extremely doubtful that the concept of the virgin birth of Jesus by way of a "fourth chakra" was understood by early Christians in anything like the manner that Campbell outlines -- even among the groups that promoted the doctrine of the virgin birth. And not all sects did so. The Ebionites and Marcionites, for example, did not. The virgin birth is implied only in Matthew and Luke, and those books did not appear until the end of the first century. Paul never mentions that Jesus was born of a virgin. And he clearly would have mentioned it if he had believed it to be so.

[@writingref]

He's not comparing the christian birth to other religions to say Christians understood other religions and their origins. He's pointing out what we, as humans, inherently understand about birth, death, and rebirth before we even try to transcribe it into religion. Campbell called Mythology the penultimate truth, where the ultimate truth can't be put into words - but we all tried in some form or another. Moyers doesn't follow what Campbell is trying to say until later in the interview, and confuses the issue here.

[@DerekLyons]

Wonderful

[@urbanrider403]

The more I listen the more I don’t understand

[@X-Kohl]

Dear Foundation, Careful if you keep listening to the person that tells you not to upload more content and longer time length. You might make money!

[@joedavis4150]

... To be halfway decent people, we really don't need to be beat over the head with any kind of regimented hierarchical bureaucratic dogmatic religion. We simply have to be brought up to know right from wrong. To know good from bad. This is an easy and natural way to bring up a loving compassionate and strong child.

[@kdubs9111]

If Westerners weren't Christian Jesus would have just looked like another Guru to them and they'd think nothing of it.

[@PioPeterDsouza]

It's better to tell the truth. When you tell one lie, You must lie forever to prove the credibility of that lie. 😂

[@babagama4232]

So true....so true.

[@RobHollanderMusic]

It's "incarnation", not "incarceration" as the subtitles say.

[@ChrisMusante]

Someone asked what Isaiah 9:6 was about... here is the verse - with explanation below. Isaiah 9:6 (NIV) For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Explaination: INSIDE of a person is a 'woman' - the 'one flesh' that God 'created' (NOT the 'man' that LORD GOD 'formed', then separated, and advised should be joined BACK together again, as what GOD has 'joined together' let man not separate). As GOD created man as MALE AND FEMALE, created them 'he' - and called their name... 'Adam'. God's creation of man was 'androgynous' or 'male AND female'. And thus... it is what COMES OUT of a MAN that defiles him. Thus... one should be able to see 'the WOMAN' of Revelation 12. IF this 'woman' inside of you does what is GOOD in the eyes of GOD, the FRUIT of that choice is then 'male' - and acceptable to GOD and taken into HEAVEN. BUT... if the 'woman' inside of you does what is EVIL in the eyes of GOD, the FRUIT is then a 'female', 'daughter of man', and another 'woman' or 'seed bearer'... which is then another 'opportunity' for something to come of it, but then it is NOT a 'first fruit' and NOT ACCEPTABLE to GOD. THIS is also (spiritually)... the 'VIRGIN BIRTH' as it DOES NOT require 'physical union' to produce FRUIT, or to say... THE WORD MADE (into) FLESH. This is what Jesus was referring to when He spoke with Nicodemus... or being BORN of WATER & SPIRIT, and also what is referred to with Mary (Jesus mother) AND ALSO, why Jesus is called - 'the Word', as it is the COMMAND of GOD through which everything that has been made or will ever BE MADE... is made. Note that the daughters of man, became 'evil' spirits upon the earth... and thus 'spirit give birth to spirt' is then true. Flesh gives birth to flesh is simple to understand - as this is an 'earthly thing' vs. and lacks the complexities of 'heavenly things'.

[@Hello-bi1pm]

Does this explain transpeople

[@ChrisMusante]

@Hello-bi1pm - well, perhaps - since every one is built of 'both'... seems weird to say - 'genders'; but there is a limitation because what I am referring to is purely spiritual. But I suppose, that in much the same way as a plant that is exposed to conditions that are too harsh, can change it's gender and become 'confused' (I know for a fact that this can happen with Cannabis) persons living under extremely stressful conditions could, I suppose, experience the same response, and reflected in a spiritual way verses a physical one. As a person's body really can't change from one to the other. I heard somewhere that as the fetus develops, all of the start out as female, and then the genetics causes the assignment as the fetus forms into a child. I know this much, I don't have the heart to pick on someone who suffers from the situation - if they are suffering from something... what kind of a jerk would add to their 'suffering' ? It is interesting to me how - given that it is considered a 'condition' - it is definitely 'spreading' as if it was communicable. The context above is more about dissecting scriptures to present their true meanings, in hopes of pointing out the source of the world's religions woes.

[@jamesroberts1964]

To what degree are these ideas objective, supported by empirically proven truth?

[@metdasunrise9647]

Boom!!

[@metdasunrise9647]

The first question that should be asked after watching this

[@Homunculas]

You're expecting the interpretation of myth to be supported by empirical facts?.....?....I can't even.

[@metdasunrise9647]

@@Homunculas live the myth then And if you cant even, then don’t. Then odd it. Old age teachings transformed to ease in the new age, but all the same shit with a different label on the cover page.

[@jamesroberts1964]

@@Homunculas yes, the interpretation, not the myth itself, the interpretation. If, as you imply, every interpretation of every myth is equally valid, then what is he claiming to have discovered? His work rides on the back of Jung’s claim of a universal consciousness, as defined by archetypes appearing cross cultures, my question is how do you measure and quantify the degree to which an archetype is similar across cultures, how similar are they? Rough, generalized comparisons can be made, but you need evidence far greater than this if you want to prove something as profound as a universal consciousness.

[@alafolieee]

Very cute how he dodged talking about the patriarchy in this one

[@alphonsngoma7777]

😂 I saw that too coz I'm damn so curious but then holycrap he flipped it so nicely.. 👐

[@Leba.Anatniuq]

What does that mean? Can you explain

[@erick7brian]

There's no patriarchy. We all have both feminine and masculine energy

[@seetclear8947]

Cute as anything else that doesn't exist

[@Brutuscomedy]

Or a Hebrew term in Isaiah was mistranslated to "virgin" instead of "young woman"

[@SP-ny1fk]

The serpent is the Kundalini. The dormant potential.

[@nunyanunya6398]

The kundalini serpent is ordure... Or.. excrement.. same as the "serpent" in eden.. in fact, it was Eve's serpent that suggested she ate the forbidden fruit.. Her serpent..

[@SP-ny1fk]

@Ben Dover The child invariably does bite of the apple though. And then as an adult must find their way back - through Christ.

[@SP-ny1fk]

@@nunyanunya6398 Do you usually talk about that which you don't know?

[@1087SB]

incredible

[@larry1824]

Joe please........ 😮

[@davidagiel8130]

The virgin birth and woman clothed in the sun are astrological motifs for Virgo. As the sun moves to the winter solstice to die and be reborn again.

[@lnielse1]

Campbell with yet another conglomeration of woo-woo

[@innertubez]

What a brilliant explanation! Especially the way Campbell brings in both Christian and Hindu religion to explain the difference between the animal "pelvic basin" nature and the heart, human nature. So the Virgin Birth can be thought of as the emergence of the heart of human compassion but without depending on the purely animal nature - aggression, consumption, lack of compassion - all the stuff that are symbolized not only by Satan but also by those who mocked and crucified Jesus.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

From a talk by Osho There are a few points to be understood. One: Jesus can be born only out of a virgin woman. But remember, virginity has nothing to do with celibacy -- not, at least, for me. Virginity is something immensely different. Don't reduce it to sex. Sex can be virgin, and celibacy may not be virgin. Things are very complicated. If a man is celibate and thinks constantly of sex, he is not virgin. On the other hand, if a man makes love to a woman, or the woman makes love to a man, and there is no thought of sex -- no sexuality in the head, no cerebral sex -- it is virgin. Virgin means pure. Virgin means uncontaminated. Virgin means spontaneous. Virgin means simple, innocent. Now, sex is not the problem. Sexuality is the problem. There are people who are continuously thinking of sex. And the more you try to enforce some celibacy on yourself -- you become a nun or a monk -- the more you think of sex. In fact, then you don't think about anything else, you only think of sex because that is your starved part. It takes revenge, it becomes very aggressive. It comes again and again, bubbles up, surfaces in the head. And you go on doing prayer to keep it repressed, and you go on doing this and that -- a thousand and one things. But whenever there is rest, it is there. You go to sleep and it is there. It becomes your dream, it becomes your fantasy. If you repress it too much, then it starts coming in different symbols. They may not be sexual on the surface but deep down they are sexual. Sexuality means that sex has entered into the head, but why has sex entered into the head in the first place? It enters into the head if you repress it. Anything repressed enters into the head. Try for three days: go on a fast, and food will enter into the head. For seven days don't take a bath... I am not talking about hippies. If you are a hippy, then this won't do. For seven days don't take a bath, and that will enter in your head. For three, four days don't sleep, and that will enter in your head. And then you will be continuously thinking of sleep, sleep will be continuously coming and you will be yawning. Whatsoever is starved enters into the head. And when something enters into the head your whole being becomes polluted with it. By 'virginity', I mean that Mary must have been in a very very non-sexual state. She must have been a very innocent woman. She must not have been thinking about sex; she must have made love, but that love was innocent. There was no idea in it: mind was not interfering. It was completely uncontaminated by the mind, uninterfered with by the mind. That's what we in Tantra say real love is. You meet a woman, you don't think about sex at all. Only pathological people think about sex, healthy people don't think about sex. There is no need. You enjoy the beauty of the woman -- her face, her eyes, her proportion -- you are simply thrilled by her being. There is no idea to do anything to her, there is no idea to exploit, there is no idea to possess. You are immensely interested, but very innocently. There is no planning in your mind, there is no future, then it is a virgin relationship. One day love can happen. One day listening to music, dancing together, love can possess you both: you can make love to each together. But even while making love, there is no idea -- there is no mind in it. It is innocent of mind, then it is a virgin relationship. If you ask me, then this is what I mean by 'virgin'. Jesus cannot be born in the way Christians say -- that is absurd, stupid. But why do they say that he was born out of a virgin mother? They are too obsessed with sex, and to them it seems degrading that Jesus should come out of sex, out of an ordinary love relationship. That looks very very disturbing to them... and coming through the ordinary passage of sex? No, that is not possible. If Jesus can come through sex, then how will they condemn sex? Then how will they tell their nuns and their monks 'Don't ever go into sex. It is ugly, it is the greatest sin there is!'? (But ) if Jesus himself enters into the world through natural love, it will be difficult to condemn."

[@andrewcockburn3227]

Nice to see Donald Rumsfeld in a different role.

[@Homunculas]

FAIL

[@James_the_Builder]

Mary was 12 Joseph was 86

[@babagama4232]

U mean Jesus' mother..????

[@martiansurgery]

He does get confusing for a moment. I think everyone who believes Jesus was born knows that Mary obviously got pregnant (maybe a Roman guard raped her who knows...in those days women would be stoned to death for being raped) But what he is talking about transcends the idea of that story.. Hes saying the story that became the virgin birth story, is different than the story of the real jesus (if there was a man name Jesus). SO What he (i believe) is saying is anyone can become 'that' person, if you transcend the animal instincts, and it happens at different points and events, ages in peoples lives. You awake to the suffering and feel compassion for what happens all around us constantly in the human world

[@bwoutchannel6356]

guy is off his rocker

[@zilchnilton]

Lol, could be right

[@nalleinsowilo6268]

You so uneducated set down

[@arielshikoba1857]

At 2:35 it's not about "Humanity" its about the "Power of Light" 💙 "BioPhotons". Humans are dominated by these! Electric(God/Male/Spiritual) & Magnetism(Mary/Female/Matter) births Electromagnetism (Christ)

[@snicklesnockle7263]

I don't get it. Was he really born to a virgin or not?

[@babagama4232]

Who???the narrator???NO..... BUT JESUS WAS BORN TO A VIRGIN .....

[@linjicakonikon7666]

Don't ask Campbell. He makes it up as he goes along.

[@kerryburns6041]

The famous Virgin Birth stems from an early mistranslation of the original text, (for virgin, read young girl). Since the whole point of Christ´s lineage was his descent from David, he had to have an earthly father -- which rather demolishes the idea of parthenogenesis, along with Mr Campbell´s notion that it is any more a metaphor for enlightenment than the weather forecast.

[@Artistry4]

Interviewer:"But Christ came the way you and I come". Joseph: "Yes, but of a virgin". Why does he say that after stating it was a spiritual birth

[@writingref]

Moyers interrupts Campbell here. Campbell is trying to point out how in myth, there is no consistency as to what birth means or how it is physically done. Moyers is a Christian who understandably is looking to sort of understand if his faith is unique or not. To a certain extent, Christianity IS unique, and Campbell acknowledges this in the same interview, but this is in tangent to his point - that for us to examine the virgin birth we are supposed to get internal and personal meaning from it, not a meaning which is separate from us or aloof. God is inside us in Campbell's view, and indeed in much of the Christian view as well.

[@jasonwheeler1483]

Oh my goodness...

[@stevebrooks4th]

Amen.

[@oscillatingdailyaudio]

word

[@jpbetancourt]

🧐

[@DidierDubz]

Pretty simple. ✌❤☀

[@soulfulpoemz]

💯💚🤝👑

[@a-testforthefuture1817]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 God dam it Don’t tell them too much They just might figure it all out 😂 Lol. Is considered to be everything

[@maureencrosby1786]

Wow !!!!!

[@clendenenjames8804]

Many things happen with JESUS birth,one mary knew that she would have to another her son at his death,for our sins and Joseph must have known that he would have to die,so Jesus would start his ministry, for our forgiveness

[@carriefox5642]

22443. 9. ?

[@josehawking5293]

It’s patriarchal, come on Campbell, what, the Buddha is female?

[@johneynon7121]

Getting reborn.God it. - +

[@ethereal_land]

I can’t seem to make the connection at all, what does growth and transformation have to do with a virgin birth, seriously? Female virgins are so glorified and male virgins are belittled throughout these mythological stories, it’s sounds repulsive not transformative to me. It’s also inherently disrespectful to mature women who have done the work.

[@writingref]

How much of this interview have you watched? Campbell would have gleefully transitioned from this subject into the dichotomy of opposites to answer your question - his favorite myths besides Native American myths, were of the Holy Grail . . . which were ABOUT exactly the kind of purity on the male side you are talking about.

[@ethereal_land]

@@writingref virgins can't give birth not biologically possible in our species, the end.

[@writingref]

@@ethereal_land Perhaps you've misunderstood a discussion on mythology for religion or fact?

[@ethereal_land]

@@writingref I'm questioning the roots since it's made up.

[@writingref]

@@ethereal_land dreams aren't real. But are they made up? If you and I have the same dream its a weird and spooky coincidence maybe. What does it mean when entire cultures in different regions have very similar public dreams? Thats the root . . .

[@Kyus2001]

#Cicada3301 #SevensExposed Unraveling

[@jaspernewcomb5656]

A lot of Rabbi's blow a gasket over Mary giving birth to Jesus but they are alright with a virgin red heifer. I think the main problem is being taught in the traditions of their Father's who didn't understand the story in the first place so they wrote their own books based on their beliefs and opinions which led them to where they are today. Just as lost and confused as they've always been too stubborn to admit they need help. They want to believe it's everybody else but them that has mental problems. Personally I couldn't care less what they believe as long as they don't claim it's their right to impose their beliefs and opinions on other people.

[@terra5071]

I know that we are co-creators and we came from the big bang (God). Mary (Jesus's mother) was raped by a Roman solider and had a hard time with wanting the child. She was told by a angel that she was to go through the nine months of her pregnancy and give birth to Jesus. The catholic church has spread misinformation for years and Jesus said that he was not born in a stable either. He said it was a nice story, but the birth was were they lived. Jesus tried to help people get off the wheel of Karma. This is what we are suppose to be doing now, love each other, stop fearing all the time and manifest your dream life. Its a very simple concept, yet people forget that they are infinite being and we have the power within us, we just don't us it!

[@weirdotter930]

I’m a virgin 😢☹️

[@baekho10]

holy shit

[@albertkim7882]

This is way more compelling than christian dogma LOL

[@TheMercilessEye]

Sorry, but this is just a huge pile of apologetic bullshit. Unsubscribed. Campbell is nifty if you're into fantasy. If I want reality, I'll go with InMendham, from now on. At least HE has the balls to tell the truth.

[@8slkmic]

......................, ............what?

[@Dani-n6y7m]

..praises wish your message had gotten to Israel sooner

[@Watchout1010]

Alien artificial insemination-technology leads to enlightenment.

[@hopefulhearted]

Does this guy think animals are not capable of love and compassion? That is far from truth.

[@marcuscoe2020]

This is so sad

[@neilbhatt7096]

Read Hindu texts and scriptures and your way of looking at all religions will change for better. You will start seeing REAL depth that isn't there and the meanings that aren't written or can be inferred.

[@wahnano]

Mixing the truth with falsehood.

[@mikeleonel]

Great teachings, may i add that virgin is asociated with virtue, and that chastity or tantric sex ( preserving sexual energy) is a must for this, refered as Inmaculate conception (no orgasm or eyaculation in sex)

[@jamescampbell2521]

Sounds like a lot of "gobbledygook".

[@Homunculas]

Swoosh

[@ConsueloCastanuela]

No that God isn't 'you'. Good grief.

[@MrJack556]

Idiot

[@Homunculas]

God's name is I AM is it not?

[@MrJack556]

@@Homunculasits just as when Jesus claimed he was God. People dont like it when you do that. I don't either. But only because the people that I saying that don't understand what that means.

[@butlerbees6639]

@@Homunculas God is not a man.

[@zilchnilton]

@@MrJack556 you're an idiot for saying he's an idiot