Each human being is unique

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was quite darkest and there was no path. When there's a way on a path, it is someone else's path; each human being is a unique phenomenon.

That is Joseph Campbell with a prescient warning of the dangers of the wisdom - 'friends', 'followers' & 'likes' - of online crowds. He was writing in Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine describing the entry of the Grail Knights into the forest in Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. The accompanying portraits of eight unique phenomenon were taken by me during recent visits to Crete and India. 


My listening while travelling was predictably varied. One of many highlights was Andrew Gourlay's Parsifal Suite constructed from Wagner's opera. Andrew Gourlay conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in an exceptionally sonorous recording - complete with sampled bells -  produced by Andrew Keener in London's Henry Wood Hall.   

Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all the readers who capriciously defied Joseph Campbell to follow my Overgrown Path in 2024.  

Comments

And best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to you!

Recent popular posts

David Munrow - more than early music

Classical music must be doing something wrong

Soundtrack for a porn movie

The Accidental Pilgrim

Nada Brahma - Sound is God

The Berlin Philharmonic's darkest hour

Aaron Copland's McCarthy Hearing

Vonnegut gets his Dresden facts wrong

She was not just a woman

Storm clouds gather over Aldeburgh