With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these... - Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"

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