In this interview aired in March 2012, on PBS, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers discuss Star Wars, and the universal human need for heroes, mythologies and spiritual adventure.
I came to know of this dialogue from reading an interview (in the NYT's Sunday Book Review section) of novelist Dan Brown.
Brown attributes the inception of his character Robert Langdon to Joseph Campbell. The PBS interview series, says Brown, is the most thought-provoking conversation he had ever witnessed:
Campbell’s breadth of knowledge about the origins of religious belief enabled him to respond with clarity and logic to some very challenging questions about contradictions inherent in faith, religion and scripture. I remember admiring Campbell’s matter-of-fact responses and wanting my own character Langdon to project that same respectful understanding when faced with complex spiritual issues.
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