It’s brutal, but tribal and communal, and once you go through it, you know you are not a boy anymore. You go kill the lion, get beat up, get circumcised. Puberty Rites: In primal societies you go through a puberty rite, especially as a boy. You’re not sacrificing for the other person, you’re sacrificing for the marriage, the union you’ve created together. Marriage: True mythological marriage is the sacrifice of the one individual for the union, for creating a whole that is greater than its parts. that we forget about the inner value, our internal development, and that’s all the real value there is anyway. We’re so obsessed with outer value: money, status, etc. This section covers how we’ve lost the power of myth in the modern world, and according to Campbell, this explains many of the strifes and feelings of lostness that we experience, especially youths. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. The book is broken out by 8 interviews done over two years, so my notes here are organized by those sections.
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