JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Our Present Moment

I am reminded…of that very strange prophetic work of the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats, A Vision, which he composed mainly during the twenty years from 1917 to 1936,and wherein he has recognized certain affinities of his own intuitions with those of Spengler’s morphological view.

Yeats there represents our present moment as the last phase of a great Christian cycle or “gyre” of two thousand years. “And I notice,” he writes, “that when the limit is approached or past, when the moment of surrender is reached, when the new gyre begins to stir, I am filled with excitement.”

Excerpt from Joseph Campbell, MYTHS TO LIVE BY (Penguin Books, 1972)

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Photo: Camp Happiness @ Second Life by Happiness Merryman

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Celebrate! Dance in the new gyre with Jean Michel Jarre’s “Chronologie 6”… Feel the pulse! Tune yourself to the heartbeat of the Universe!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZRVt_p1HA