These myths, as Campbell saw them, could be about anything. No, it wasn’t stuffy, which is usually what “academic” conjures up-not to him it was a very real part of his life, and, in sharing his enthusiasm and imagination, he opened a new world to those who heard him. He taught at the college for nearly forty years, and he stimulated his students, as he did the TV audience, despite the unusual academic subject. The name of the college, perhaps, will not ring many familiar bells but maybe the name of the professor will. It was many years ago that I first encountered on PBS a certain professor from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” - Joseph Campbell
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