Audio Series I Lectures

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From the Star Wars trilogy to the Grateful Dead, Joseph Campbell has had a profound impact on our culture, our beliefs, and the way we view ourselves and the world. Provocative and exhilarating, the approx. 90 titles that will ultimately comprise The Collected Lectures of Joseph Campbell offer a glimpse into one of the great minds of our time, drawing together his most wide-ranging and insightful talks.

Always at his best as an impromptu speaker, Campbell shines in these recordings, both as a scholar and as a master storyteller. These lectures are from early in his career, including recordings of his famous lectures at the Cooper Union.



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Lecture I.6.1 - Origins of Western Mythology [New!]

Lecture I.6.1 - Origins of Western Mythology [New!]

As I say, the function finally of myths is to introduce you by way of the mārga, of the [universal] path, to the deep psychological and mystical the two being ultimately one. The mystery of your psyche and the mystery of the universe is one....
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Lecture I.6.2 - The Mythology of Love [New!]

Lecture I.6.2 - The Mythology of Love [New!]

The Persian poets asked, “What is it that sustains Satan in his eternal, infinitely painful exile?” Because the deepest pain of Hell is not the fire or the stench but the depravation of the true love of the soul—namely God. And the answer with...
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Lecture I.6.3 - The Arthurian Tradition [New!]

Lecture I.6.3 - The Arthurian Tradition [New!]

Europe had perfectly good religions and mythologies going fine and then [Christianity] is brought in on top of it. And what you get then… is an attempt on the part of the European mind to assimilate this and translate it into something like European...
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Lecture I.6.4 - The Grail Legend [New!]

Lecture I.6.4 - The Grail Legend [New!]

Galahad is a word from the Old Testament that means Mountain of Testimony; [Sir Galahad] is a mountain of testimony to Christ. The whole tradition of the virgin knight as the Grail knight belongs to a Cistercian monastic line. Whereas the line of...
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Lecture I.6.5 - The Forest Adventurous [New!]

Lecture I.6.5 - The Forest Adventurous [New!]

We left our two heroes, Percival and Gawain, on their quest, and we now come to the story of the resolutions…. Percival has been wandering for some five years on his steed through this area where he found the Grail castle [but is] now unable to find...
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