“Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.”

—  Joseph Campbell , The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987

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