text: In a posthumously published interview, this man recalled being asked “Do you believe in a personal god” by a priest in a chance encounter at an athletic club.
full_question: In a posthumously published interview, this man recalled being asked “Do you believe in a personal god” by a priest in a chance encounter at an athletic club. A book by this man sets out to catalogue “divine beings- as zoology includes all animals and botany all plants.” The Upanishads inspired this man’s motto, “follow your bliss.” He analyzed a figure who receives a boon as a reward after departing the “ordinary world” in the “monomyth.” For 10 points, name this author of The Masks of God and The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
first_sentence: In a posthumously published interview, this man recalled being asked “Do you believe in a personal god” by a priest in a chance encounter at an athletic club.