We've added three new clips in the JCF Associate Video Preview section. Joseph Campbell discusses sacrificial rituals, animals associated with lunar and solar principles, and the mythological depiction of time within eternity. You won't find these anywhere else.

The videos in this section are brief excerpts from interviews filmed with Joseph Campbell in his late seventies, previously unreleased by the Joseph Campbell Foundation. We will preview new clips for Associates every few weeks, so be sure to check back periodically for new topics—you'll always find them here first.

JCF thanks Jack Adams and Human Rights TV for volunteering their time, equipment, and expertise to edit these clips.

More video clips are available at the JCF Associates Video Preview page.

JCF Working Associate Stephen Gerringer will discuss Recovering the Goddess with Karen Tate on her program, Voices of the Sacred Feminine, Wednesday, August 11, at 7 pm PST. Stephen will detail male contributions to rediscovering the Goddess, Joseph Campbell's evolution of mythological thinking, and the emergence of patriarchal culture.

Listen live, or catch the interview later in the archives at the link above. 

During the last two weeks we received more than 20 requests from JCF associates who would like to start their own Mythological RoundTable® (MRT) group. In spite of the great interest in our MRT program, the total number of active groups (about 50) seems to remain more or less the same. Why might that be?

Transcripts of all titles in the Collected Lectures of Joseph Campbell series are available to be read on our site FREE OF CHARGE for all registered JCF Associates (it's free, quick and easy to register)!

Here's an excerpt from Lecture I.1.5 - The Vitality of Myth:

The title of the series that I am lecturing on is Civilization and Its Discontents. And since my own special passion is mythology, I have the feeling that one of the great reasons for the discontent is the failure in vitality of the myths by which people are being expected to live.

It was some sixty-five or so years ago that Dr. Jung... came to this thought: What is the myth that I am living by? He said, “I realized when I finished this, what a thing it was to live with myth, and what a thing it is to live without one.” And he said, “I propose to myself the discovery of the myth that I was living by, as my task of tasks.”

So one can ask what has happened that so many today are living without a myth?

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