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Do you think we are in a place in history in which people would be willing to re-examine their religious ideologies in favor of a way of thinking that would bring the best commonalities of all religions together? Why or why not? What would such a change in thinking require as its catalyst?

Do you think the elements that were present at the end of the monumental age that precipitated the fall of Rome are present in such a way that could bring about a crisis and fall sometime soon as Oswald Spengler predicted?

At the time of Campbell's writing this book, the Orient had barely begun its entrance into the world of industry and technology, so Campbell pointed to the West as the culture responsible to do the world's innovating. Have the subsequent years of blending the two cultures been beneficial? Do you see...
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