Joseph Campbell "Bios and Mythos"

-------------- MYTH -------------- "In India, the objective is to be born from the womb of myth, not to remain in it, and the one who has attained to this “second birth” is truly the “twice born,” freed from the pedagogical devices of society, the lures and threats of myth, the local mores, the usual hopes of benefits and rewards. He is truly “free” (mukti), “released while living” (jivan mukti); he is that reposeful “superman” who is man perfected though in our kindergarten of libidinous misapprehensions he moves like a being from another sphere." -- Joseph Campbell, "Bios & Mythos" selected essay from The Flight of the Wild Gander. New World Library 2018. pp 38)