Dr Evans Lansing Smith, the chair of Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute discussing Joseph Campbell’s new book: Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth. Calling the Arthurian romances the world’s first “secular mythology,” Campbell found metaphors in them for human stages of growth, development, and psychology. Dr Lansing Smith discusses how the Arthurian myths opened the world of comparative mythology to Campbell, turning his attention to the Near and Far Eastern roots of myth as well as Campbell's theses, The Dolorous Stroke.
