Reply #5: I have the DVD's

[Don Claybrook]

It's a wonderful, wonderful series of interviews. I also highly recommend a set of Campbell lectures called Mythos. It's a little drier than the treatment Moyers gives, but it's good stuff, 10 hours' worth.

As for The Power of Myth, I watch it over and over again, on and off. I think you're referring to the segment called "From Goddess to God". Campbell also does a great job of dispensing with the idiotic question of whether God is male or female by explaining that god is heirarchically "before" either male or female, 0 or 1, on or off, etc. The god concept transcends pairs of opposites and therefore is neither and is, by definition, undefinable, transcendent.

Thanks for the post, Chris. I love talking Joseph Campbell. So does Mark Morford, by the way. Search his archives if you'd like to read a nice column about this series and how we need to heed its message.

Thanks.