Campbell started with a story of overhearing a conversation between a mother and a 12-year-old son about a paper Jimmy wrote on evolution of man. The child’s teacher and mother were persistent that Adam and Eve were our first parents and were not interested in hearing the scientific paper.
The concept of Earth being flat was a misconception. According to ancient Greeks, the earth was not flat, but a solid motionless sphere in the center of a Chinese box of seven revolving spheres after which the days in a week are named and in each of which there was a planet such as moon, Venus, sun and so on. After Columbus sailed West, many tentative and logical advances were made to slowly disgrace the myths of the past. Stories such as Noah, Adam and
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Myths, according to Freud, are of the mental order of dream. Myths are public dreams and dreams are private myths. Jung, on the other hand, believed that mythology and religion served a positive purpose; myths kept us in touch with the powers of the psyche. We have the capability to recognize the greater and wiser world that exists in ourselves through myths. Therefore, the civilization that could keep its myths flourishing will take advantage from the powers in the human spirit. By going to deeply into the world of myths and dreams, one would lose the ability to survive in the modern world. Campbell doubts about cultures that do not accept any association between science and myth. He brought up the idea of the rejection of the power of the Greeks, who recognized the fact that the Earth rotated around the sun in the science of the Bible. This way, the world lost more than a thousand years of scientific developments and further change of civilization. Instead, we have the legacy of unorthodoxy court-martials and the burning of people at the stake. All social change is the result of conflict with others in developing nations. change only occurs with the impact of invaders. In the modern Western world, constant progress has occurred due to the quest of a quite few number of people to pursue out the truth. However, all this scientific development cannot be considered as the ultimate truth. Instead, there is a persistent and unquenchable thirst to acquire and progress