Because one of the participants happens to be a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and the world’s foremost expert on mythology, it’s also a bit like a lecture course, but it’s the most fascinating lecture you’ll ever attend. The energy and each man’s genuine, obvious passion for the topics elevates these discussions far beyond the setting where they take place, which is essentially a warmly lit, almost nondescript room with two chairs facing each other. Campbell had passed away before any of the episodes were broadcast, so these introductions have a sense of solemnity, but the episodes themselves are lively and engaging.
This two-volume DVD set presents the series in its original six episode form, with introductions from Moyers. The two discussed Campbell’s work and his theories on mythology, symbolism, the human experience and how the myths are strikingly similar throughout human history, with the same symbols, stories and themes repeated down through the ages across widely varied cultures. Campbell sat down with Moyers, an award-winning journalist, for several conversations at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch over the previous two years. The Power of Myth first aired as a six-part series in 1988. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.” If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. Eternity has nothing to do with time! It is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out … This is it. According to Campbell, what myths-all myths-tell us is that the meaning of life is the experience of life: “Eternity isn’t some later time, eternity isn’t a long time. His definition of myth, rather than being that myths are examples of the search for life’s meaning, is that myths are the ongoing search for “the experience of life”. “Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life,” explains scholar Joseph Campbell near the beginning of the celebrated PBS series Joseph Campbell on The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers.
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