Thanks for your opinion, but I don't agree at all. We often find academics disparaging people who think outside the box and this is what Campbell did.

I am familiar with some of what you cited, including charges of antisemitism, which I disagree with after having read the things he wrote. The people who said he was antisemitic just didn't like his appraisal of the origins of Judaism even though he was right.

As far as I am concerned, Campbell was someone with tremendous insight, which is nearly absent in academia where people like to stay within their safe zone of conservative and materialist ideas. I can point to a dozen people over the years who have been on the receiving end of this sort of derision, including David Bohm, because they went against the grain.

Mythology cannot be fully understand through intellectualism or logic, and most academics cannot escape their own dogma and black-and-white way of thinking.