Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - Nature Is Still OURS lyrics

What happens is that
The old fascination
Disappears an echo remains
And you

The old fascination
Disappears an echo remains

The old fascination
Disappears an echo remains
And you have,  as it were the
Vestige of mythology
The problem of our present
Age is to
Recreate the mythology
For today on which people
Will live on which the society
Will grow it is being done
It is being done well
People aren’t always looking in the
Right place for it but it is
Taking shape our
Great artists our great poets
Our great scientists erwin Schrodinger’s
Little book ‘My View of the World’
This is a vision of a poet
And of a first rate physical scientist
And it has the same song in it
That one reads and hears in the old
Upanishads
And in the sayings of the great prophets

Nature is still ours it’s still ours
It is in us it is in the universe
Nature is still ours it’s still ours
It is in us it is in the universe

Secondary to that is the social
Situation now in our society
The social problem is turned over
Largely to the police and to
Congress as a purely
Practical matter however
The creatures that constitute the society
These are today the neighbor
They really are the idea of a personal God
Living somehow
Somewhere else
Out there - there is no "out there" anymore
There is no "up there"
It’s awfully difficult to
Validate but it seems to me if one’s
Looking for the personality of God
It’s right here
In the multitudinous personalities of those
Around us

Nature is still ours it’s still ours
It is in us it is in the universe
Nature is still ours it’s still ours
It is in us it is in the universe

Everything I find in the poets
In the scientists who push through
To this mystery
Points not to the animals
As our neighbors not to the plant
Not to the planet but to that
Other one that "thou"
Whom you face
Who’s not the thou you would want him to be
He’s other
And it’s that recognition of otherness
That is absolutely basic and necessary
Now this doesn’t mean that you have to
Give up your otherness in recognition of him
It may darn well be collision
But it has to be collision with reverence
And respect