The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres." Wrote Campbell, "People say that what we're all seeking is the meaning of life. I don't think thats what we are really seeking. I think that what we are seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our experiences on the physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."