The Net of Indra

Joseph Campbell On Schopenhauer And Indras Net: “Schopenhauer points out that when you reach an advance age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as thought composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as your dreams are composed by an aspect of yourself of whic