Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - Greatly Changed lyrics

The second function of a mythology
Is to present
An image a total image
Of the universe
As consciousness is aware of it we have to
Encompass the whole of what we know
And see that in terms of this mystery
Now as you immediately realize
In the course of the ages
In the course of time man’s understanding

A man’s image of the universe
Has great greatly changed a man’s image
Of the universe has great greatly changed
A totally new cosmos has come into being
Has come into our consciousness
Has great greatly changed the view
Of the world round about
That the Pawnee Indian would have had
On the plains of Nebraska 200 years ago
Is very, very different
From what is now propounded
In the University of Nebraska likewise
When we read in the
Book of Genesis
The story of the creation of the world
That’s not the world that our scientists are
Telling us about

Are are telling us about (faded)

A man’s image of the universe
Has great greatly changed a man’s image
Of the universe has great greatly changed
A totally new cosmos has come into being
Has come into our consciousness
Has great greatly changed read an account
Of the coming into being of the cosmos
From the spiral nebulae
Hundreds and hundreds of millions
Of years ago
And try to bring that into accord with
The Biblical story
Or try to bring it into accord with any
Of the inherited stories the
Image of the cosmos must change
With the development of the mind
And the knowledge otherwise
The mythic statement is lost
And man becomes disassociated
From the very basis
Of his own religious experience
Doubt comes in and so forth
You must remember
All of the great traditions
And little traditions in their own time
Were scientifically correct
That is to say they were correct in terms
Of the scientific image of that age
So there must be a
Scientifically validated
Image now you know what has happened
Our scientific field has separated it'self
From the religious field or vice versa

A man’s image of the universe
Has great greatly changed a man’s image
Of the universe has great greatly changed
A totally new cosmos has come into being
Has come into our consciousness
Has great greatly changed

It was actually
The religious community that rejected
The scientific community in the 17th Century
And this divorce is a fatal thing
And a very unfortunate
And a totally unnecessary thing
There is no reason whatsoever for clinging
To the literal the literal
Reading of a scientific statement
That is 4000
Years old
It must be read another way
And there is something else being said there
Which is lost if you
Either hang on to the old science
Or reject it or reject it

A man’s image of the universe
Has great greatly changed a man’s image
Of the universe has great greatly changed
A totally new cosmos has come into being
Has come into our consciousness
Has great greatly changed