IS JOSEPH CAMPBELL AN ANTI-SEMITE?

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seemslikeadream wrote:

Do not tell me what to do....ms hunter
I need your list of anti-semites....so I don't make this mistake again

I was just suggesting, I'd never dream of telling you what to do.
The list so far:

Possible Anti-Semites

David Icke: Soft maybe
Joseph Campell: Definite maybe
Adolf Hitler: For sure

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Is Bill Moyers an anti-semite?

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love the suggestive labeling you are a pro

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seemslikeadream wrote:

Is Bill Moyers an anti-semite?

I usually assume people are not without any evidence. But how about you do some research and let us all know?
But just so you know - I like Bill Moyers and if you post anything I don't like that implies he is less than godly I may end up shrieking about how sickening it all
is and what f*ing cowards people are who would smear my saintly Billy.

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Joseph Campbell worse anti-semite than David Icke....wow now there's some sleuthing

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seemslikeadream wrote:

Is Bill Moyers an anti-semite?

I usually assume people are not without any evidence. But how about you do some research and let us all know?
But just so you know - I like Bill Moyers and if you post anything I don't like that implies he is less than godly I may end up shrieking about how sickening it all
is and what f*ing cowards people are who would smear my saintly Billy.

It's not my job you're the anti-semite hunter around here and I figured I go to the pro

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Is George Lucas an anti-semite cause he hung around Campbell ....how could he hang around with such a terrible person? He must be a really stupid person for Campbell to fool him like that

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boy oh boy that Campbell one smart cookie fooling all these people

http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php

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seemslikeadream wrote:

It's not my job you're the anti-semite hunter around here and I figured I go to the pro

Fair enough. I'll play the Nazi Hunter and you play the shocked neighbor.

seemslikeadream wrote:

Joseph Campbell worse anti-semite than David Icke....wow now there's some sleuthing

Well, don't be hasty. Both had world views that may contribute to disturbing treatment of created out groups - but while Campbell is still very influential -
he is dead and Icke is still going strong and who knows what he will be capable of in time.

seemslikeadream wrote:

Is George Lucas an anti-semite cause he hung around Campbell ....how could he hang around with such a terrible person?

Low self esteem maybe?

P.S. Heading to lunch.

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Brenda did you know your friend was an anti-semite?

The Faces of Joseph Campbell
SEPTEMBER 28, 1989
Brendan Gill

Thanks to television, people comparatively obscure during their lifetimes enjoy the possibility of becoming celebrated after they are dead. Indeed, they may do better than that—they may achieve what amounts to a substantial measure of immortality, which is to say that as long as TV tapes of them exist and as long as an audience can be found of a size sufficient to make it worthwhile to broadcast the tapes, they can go on occupying a prominent place in the world for many decades and perhaps even—who knows?—for centuries.

Of course I am thinking of a particular case: that of my friend Joseph Campbell, who taught at Sarah Lawrence College for almost forty years, his subject being the role of myth in human history. He wrote a number of books on this and related topics, the best known of them in his lifetime being The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God. He retired from Sarah Lawrence in 1972 and was at work on still another book when, in 1987, at the age of eighty-two, he died after what his obituary in The New York Times described simply as “a brief illness.” That brevity was, so his friends thought, characteristic of him: he died within a few months, and in doing so he displayed what many of his friends took to be a characteristic—and enviable—alacrity.

I call Campbell’s alacrity enviable because, in our present state of medical ignorance, the disease that was killing him wasn’t to be outwitted except in a negative sense by the degree to which its duration could be reduced: Why dawdle in the presence of the inevitable? At the same time, however, for Campbell to have consented to be sick at all seemed an impermissible aberration. Ordinarily, it isn’t a reason for astonishment when an old man is called upon to die, but Campbell had seemed to us never to grow old. If by the calendar he had reached his eighties, in person he was a good twenty years younger than that, or so any stranger would have assumed on meeting him. He was slender and quick-moving and because of his erect carriage gave the impression of being taller than he was. He had thick dark wavy hair, bright blue eyes, unwrinkled skin, and a pink complexion. He laughed readily, boyishly, and his laughter remained especially attractive in old age because, as far as one could tell, his teeth were his own, neither false nor capped. He was, in short, an invincibly youthful figure, so uncannily unaltered by time that I used to accuse him, to his delight, of practicing some hitherto unknown form of satanism.



We would encounter each other, Campbell and I, at monthly meetings of the Century Club, in New York City. Handsome in black tie, he would be standing near one or another of the bars that were set up on such occasions in the art gallery off the landing of …

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P.S. Heading to lunch.

hurry back we wouldn't want this place overrun with anti-semites in your absence

personally I'm more interested in anti-humans

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oh my god what a terrible place Sarah Lawrence College must be...hiring an anti-semite


Alfred van der Marck publishing all that hatred

George Lucas, the film maker, and Richard Adams, author of ''Watership Down.'' Mr. Lucas then called Mr. Campbell a person of magic.

''If it hadn't been for him,'' he said, ''it's possible I would still be trying to write 'Star Wars' today.''

and wow what a fool his wife Jean Erdman must have been living with an anti-semite all those years...pity



Wolfgang must have missed it all What an idiot for not knowing

Joseph Campbell, Writer Known For His Scholarship on Mythology
By WOLFGANG SAXON
Published: November 02, 1987
Joseph Campbell, one of the most knowledgeable writers on mythology and folklore, died Saturday at his home in Hawaii after a brief illness. He was 83 years old and had homes in Honolulu and Greenwich Village.

Following an interest sparked in his New York boyhood and nurtured in 38 years on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, Mr. Campbell produced an immense body of work, weaving together the legends spun by people across the world and throughout history.

His scholarship generated classics like ''The Hero With a Thousand Faces'' (1949) and the four-volume ''Masks of God'' (1959-67). Delving into comparative mythology, the latter dealt with the realms of creation, Occidental, Oriental and primitive myths.

He wrote ''Grimm's Fairy Tales: Folkloristic Commentary'' (1944), ''The Flight of the Wild Gander'' (1969), ''The Mythic Image'' (1975) and ''The Inner Reaches of Outer Space,'' which appeared last year. And he was co-author of ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'' and ''Where the Two Came to Their Father,'' an essay comparing the hero of American Indian legend with the hero as perceived in other cultures. American Indian Lore


Born in New York City, he discovered American Indian lore in the children's reading room of the New Rochelle public library, next door to the family home. It led him to a lifetime of travel and research plumbing similarities in the myths of widely disparate civilizations.

At the time of his death, Mr. Campbell was at work on another multivolume opus, ''The Historical Atlas of World Mythology.'' Its first part, ''The Way of the Animal Powers,'' dealing with hunting and gathering societies, was published in 1983.

According to his publisher, Alfred van der Marck, it sold out and will be reissued, with a second part on early agricultural civilizations, ''The Way of the Seeded Earth,'' scheduled to appear in 1988. Mr. van der Marck said yesterday that Mr. Campbell had ''essentially finished'' the first half of his ''Atlas,'' encompassing primitive cultures, but that the status of the second half, on the mythologies of more advanced societies, remained to be determined.

Mr. Campbell was the subject of a film biography shown last March in the New Directors/New Films Series at the Museum of Modern Art. Entitled ''A Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell,'' it is scheduled for general release in December. Interviewed by Moyers

Bill Moyers, the television journalist, is condensing 23 hours of conversations with Mr. Campbell into six one-hour shows to be broadcast in the spring of 1988 on PBS. Joan Konner, president of Mr. Moyers's production company, said the interviews covered Mr. Campbell's life and thought.

''It's basically his ideas on mythology, art, religion, man's spirit and journey, life and death, love and marriage, rites and rituals,'' she said.

Hearty and robust at 80, Mr. Campbell was celebrated by the National Arts Club in New York in 1985, in the presence of celebrities such as George Lucas, the film maker, and Richard Adams, author of ''Watership Down.'' Mr. Lucas then called Mr. Campbell a person of magic.

''If it hadn't been for him,'' he said, ''it's possible I would still be trying to write 'Star Wars' today.''

Joseph Campbell was born March 26, 1904. His boyhood reading in the New Rochelle library took in the annual reports of the Bureau of Ethnology and the works of Franz Boas, the ethnologist. Arthurian Legends

He attended Dartmouth, earned two degrees at Columbia and did postgraduate work at the Universities of Paris and Munich before returning to his old preparatory school, the Canterbury School, in 1932 as a teacher of French, German and ancient history.

He himself recalled that while reading for his M.A. in literature at Columbia, he was struck at how Arthurian legends reflected themes he had encountered in his studies of the American Indian. In Paris, he said, he studied Old French and Provencal but met ''Ulysses.'' And studying Sanskrit and Indo-European philosophy in Munich, he also found Freud, Jung, Thomas Mann, Goethe and Hinduism.

In 1934 Mr. Campbell joined the department of literature at Sarah Lawrence, where he taught a course on comparative mythology before being granted emeritus status in 1972.

In 1938, Mr. Campbell married Jean Erdman of Honololu, a member of the Martha Graham dance troupe and an acclaimed choreographer who founded a dance company and school of her own.

Also surviving is a sister, Alice Campbell Lenning, of Honolulu. Memorial services will be held in New York and San Francisco; dates are to be announced.

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This concept attracted a legion of fans, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Pat Riley,


Jacki what a fool you were !!!! If only you had been as smart as brekin you wouldn't have to hang your head in shame

Steven shame on you!!!


Pat you really should have done your home work brekin says Joseph was an anti-semite....who looks bad now?

Sue please check in with brekin first before you write any more obits...save yourself the embarrassment


oh nooooose the Grateful Dead...not the Grateful Dead...telll me it ain't so.....paling around with an anti-semite? What a shock


A library in Carpinteria....ok now this is the end of the world as I know it how anti-semitic does this library look ...how shameful

A Legend in His Own Right : A library in Carpinteria is devoted to the legacy of Joseph Campbell, who celebrated myth and spirituality.
October 07, 1993|SUE REILLY

"Don't Myth With Joe Campbell."

New York City bumper sticker circa 1960s.

The late Joseph Campbell was a mythologist of mythical proportions.

Though a reluctant guru, Campbell's high-intensity lectures and television appearances turned him into a pin-up for the pop-culture set.

Campbell Archives--An article Oct. 7 in Ventura County Life made several misstatements concerning Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library. The library is not part of the institute but is held and administered by the Center for the Study of Depth Psychology, an independent nonprofit corporation. According to Pacifica President Stephen Aizenstat, the school has state approval to grant graduate degrees but is not accredited. It is, Aizenstat said, in the process of applying for accreditation through a regional accreditation association.

He shared ideas with everyone from Carl Jung to John Steinbeck to the Indian mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti, and once appeared onstage with the Grateful Dead.

A lapsed Catholic whose life became a mystical journey, he rummaged around in everyone's psychic baggage and concluded that we were all carrying around the same basic stuff.

The guiding idea behind his work, he once said, was to find in all world myths a common spiritual principal. You're talking about a search for the meaning of life? he was asked.

"No, no, no," Campbell replied, "for the experience of being alive, of the heroic journey through life."

This concept attracted a legion of fans, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Pat Riley, to his books and television appearances. The most famous of the latter are the Bill Moyers tapes.

Campbell spent a great deal of time in 1987 taping a series that, when edited down, amounted to six hours of television and attracted an estimated 35 million viewers.

According to Moyers, who moderated the PBS series, the shows' ratings went through the roof and caused the sale of Campbell's many books to soar.

Ironically, the acclaim came several months after Campbell died of cancer and created a huge but often conflicting legacy.

Some scorned him as a shoddy scholar and even a bigot. More specialized academics called him a popularizer who couldn't keep his curiosity in any particular intellectual corner.

His defenders saw him as an original thinker whose ideas carry the key to an enriched life and universal understanding. They said the attacks were a product of the jealousy that accompanies renown.

Everyone seemed to agree on one thing, however: As a storyteller, he could spellbind more skillfully than an evangelist warming up for Judgment Day. His personal vigor was a trademark, and it was present almost to his last hours.

On Oct. 30, 1987, when the 83-year-old Campbell died at his home in Honolulu, he left his words and ideas, as well as a personal library of 5,000 books and a collection of letters, photographs and personal possessions.

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seemslikeadream your defense of Campbell is that some famous people and the public liked him?
Google Henry Ford and list all his admirers, monuments, and accolades he got and see if that changes his views.
There is the possibility that Campbell was or was not a anti-semite but saying how much Jackie O and George Lucas
liked him doesn't really move the ball in either direction does it?

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should have known.... Egypt



talk about skeletons from the closet