The worst part is when you come down and you still see the ur-form for everything for extended periods of time. Kind of like being Joseph Campbell, the hero wit

The worst part is when you come down and you still see the ur-form for everything for extended periods of time. Kind of like being Joseph Campbell, the hero with a thousand faces. In fact Campbell even went to a Grateful Dead show and hung out with the artists. He is exactly correct that a Dead show (now Phish shows) are Dionysian. One has to wonder if he partook: What he saw reminded him of the Dionysian festivals, palpable proof of his theory that the ancient myths and rituals he studied still echoed today. “This is more than music,” he told his audience. “It turns something on in here [the heart]. And what it turns on is life energy. This is Dionysus talking through these kids.” Campbell's understanding of Dionysus was far deeper and more nuanced than the popular caricature of the happy, wine-soaked god, but his point was not to rehabilitate that older understanding. “It doesn't matter what the name of the god is, or whether it's a rock group or a clergy,” he concluded. “It's somehow hitting that chord of realization of the unity of God in you all.”