Joseph Campbell

[Samson]

Sorry if a similar thread has already been posted.

Just wanted to ask if anyone else has watched the documentaries posted on this site about Joseph Cambell being interviewed?

Personally I thought these were some of the most interesting documentaries I've ever watched. I could listen to him all day long. He is someone whom seems to really know his subject and love talking about it.

Anyone else watch?

[Celtaur]

Yes Joseph Campbell is brilliant. Some of his video's in this series are found here.

http://www.symbolicliving.com/forum/showthread.php/97

[Samson]

Yes that is the series I have just watched and was enthralled.
All six episodes of the series can be found in a link on the homepage.

The interviewer says he is spiritual. Can you be an atheist and spiritual?...His closing statement in the last video has him more or less claiming to be an atheist.

[stellamaris]

Kind of an old thread, but here goes anyway:

Can you be an atheist and spiritual?...His closing statement in the last video has him more or less claiming to be an atheist.

I would say you can be atheist and spiritual at the same time, but I guess it depends on the definition of 'atheist'. If 'atheist' means you don't believe in a God or Divine Being, it's absolutely possible to be both at the same time. Buddhists don't believe in a God - the Buddha only shows the way to bliss, Nirvana, deliverance of the mind into freedom.