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Hi jufa, thank you for the inspiration to cause my definition of ‘clay feet’ and how having clay feet does not deal with reality.

Because myths are pointers to transcendence, they are made of the clay of borrowed thought. And in order to have one’s borrowed clay feet transformed into spiritual feet of original thought, one must desire with all one’s being to go beyond one’s pointers to reality to step into one’s reality so as to become one’s reality. In a nutshell, clay is inert, spirit is alive.

In relation to the metaphor of Plato’s cave, those with clay feet have not yet gone within the intellectual darkness of consciousness to realize they are the causal light of every form of which they are aware.

I do not know if Joseph Campbell himself stepped out of his clay feet, but his philosophy of ‘being transparent (by way of myth) to the transcendent’ suggests that he had not. What Campbell’s idea of transparency suggests to me is that he was an intellectual rather than an experiential mystic.  As I understand the role of Campbell in relation to the journey to discover one’s true identity as the light of infinite causation, he was a maverick of moving human consciousness past its conventional and narrow viewpoint of identification with the ego of self-centeredness. And in having accomplished this task of consciousness expansion, he accomplished his soul purpose.

I am answering your post to hopefully cause the readers to consider going beyond
Campbell’s idea of being transparent to the transcendent and instead, to experience being transcendent.