The final few pages actually held the most importance to me. If I was better acquainted with the myths, I would have enjoyed this book a lot more. I know this is sort of the source book for understanding the Hero’s Journey, but since I didn’t know many of the myths referred to in the book, it became overwhelming. In addition to understanding Campbell’s points about the Hero’s Journey, it was as if I was being force-fed many different mythologies as through a firehose. Joseph Campbell discusses the world’s great myths. I’ve read other books like The Sacred Romance and Building a StoryBrand that relate our modern movies and well-known novels to the Hero’s Journey. Myth was passed on person to person and tells of man’s attempt to understand life’s greatest mysteries. Myth also takes us back further beyond where our written records begin.
Even in the most comical and apparently frivolous of its moments, mythology is directing the mind to this unmanifest which is just beyond the eye. Myth is a directing of the mind and heart, by means of profoundly informed figurations, to that ultimate mystery which fills and surrounds all existences. What is myth? Joseph Campbell defines it like this:
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