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Results from the Pages of Joseph Campbell
- A Guide to Using the Joseph Campbell Papers at the New York Public Library
- About Joseph Campbell
- Audio Lecture Series I
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- Audio Lectures Series III
- Campbell’s Sarah Lawrence College Reading List
- Conversations of a Higher Order (COHO)
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- Follow Your Bliss
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- Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. – Director
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- Mary L. Shapiro, Esq. – Director
- Paul Dalio – Director
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Results from the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Artistic Form and Yoga in the Sacred Images of India
- Asian Journals — India and Japan
- Baksheesh and Brahman
- Changing Images of Man
- Correspondence
- Divine Horsemen
- Eastern Way, The
- Ecstasy of Being, The
- Enlightened One, The
- Erotic Irony and Mythic Forms in the Art of Thomas Mann
- Experience of God, The
- Fire in the Mind, A
- First Storytellers, The
- Flight of the Wild Gander, The
- Goddesses
- Hero with a Thousand Faces, The
- Hero’s Adventure, The
- Hero’s Journey, The (book)
- Hero’s Journey, The (video)
- Inner Journey, The
- Inner Reaches of Outer Space, The
- Inward Journey: East and West
- Inward Path, The
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers (book)
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers (video)
- Joseph Campbell Companion, A
- King and the Corpse, The
- La forza del mito
- Love and the Goddess (Power of Myth 5)
- Man and Myth
- Man and Time (Eranos Yearbooks 3)
- Man and Transformation (Eranos Yearbooks 5)
- Masks of Eternity (Power of Myth 6)
- Masquerade
- My Life and Lives
- Mystical Life, The
- Myth and the Body
- Mythic Imagination
- Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
- Mythology and the Individual
- Mythos
- Mythos I
- Mythos II
- Mythos III
- Myths and Masks of God, The
- Myths of Greece and Rome
- Myths to Live By
- On Being Human
- Our Eternal Selves
- Pathways to Bliss
- Philosophies of India
- Professor With a Thousand Faces, The
- Psyche and Symbol
- Renewal Myths and Rites of the Primitive Hunters and Planters
- Romance of the Grail
- Spirit and Nature (Eranos Yearbooks 1)
- Spiritual Disciplines (Eranos Yearbooks 4)
- Sukhavati – A Mythic Journey
- Tarot Revelations
- The Masks of God™ 4: Creative Mythology
- The Masks of God™ Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
- The Masks of God™ Volume 2: Oriental Mythology
- The Masks of God™ Volume 3: Occidental Mythology
- The Message of the Myth (Power of Myth 2)
- The Mythic Dimension
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Universal Myths, The
- Way of Art, The
- Way of the Animal Powers
- Way to Illumination, The
- Western Quest, The
- Where the Two Came to Their Father
- Wings of Art
Results from the Youtube Channel of Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Campbell Myth & Meaning Book Club
- Joseph Campbell — Cave Bears and the Birth of Mythology
- Joseph Campbell — The Laws of God and Man
- Joseph Campbell–Initiation Through Trials
- King Arthur’s Knights: Yvain
- Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D on the Joseph Campbell Foundation
- Parzival – The Sword Bridge
- Parzival: A Tale with Many Tellings
- Psyche & Symbol – God is not one, God is not many, God transcends those ideas.
- Psyche & Symbol: The Origin of Elementary Ideas
- Tales of Tristan & Isolde
- The Forest Years of Tristan & Isolde
- The Homeric Legends: A Championship of Brutality and Humanity
- The Homeric Legends: Crossing the Threshold
- The Mythic World of the Navajo:The Vision of Black Elk
Results from the Collected Lectures of Joseph Campbell
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Audio: Lecture III.1.2)
- Archetypes & Mythology (Audio: Lecture II.4.4)
- Birth of the Perennial Mythology (Audio: Lecture II.1.9)
- Buddhism (Audio: Lecture I.3.4)
- Cosmology and the Mythic Image (Audio: Lecture II.5.4)
- Creativity in Oriental Mythology (Audio: Lecture I.3.5)
- Finnegans Wake (Audio: Lecture III.1.5)
- Grail Mythology (Audio: Lecture II.1.8)
- Hermes, Alchemy, & the Voyage of Ulysses (Audio: Lecture II.2.2)
- Hinduisim (Audio: Lecture I.3.3)
- Imagery of Rebirth Yoga (Audio: Lecture I.2.4)
- Interpreting Oriental Myth (Audio: Lecture I.3.1)
- Interpreting Symbolic Forms (Audio: Lecture I.5.1)
- Man and Myth (Audio: Lecture I.4.1)
- Modern Myths of Quest (Audio: Lecture II.6.1)
- Myth & Violence in America (Audio: Lecture II.5.2)
- Mythic Living (Audio: Lecture I.4.2)
- Mythologies New, Old & Today (Audio: Lecture II.5.1)
- Mythology & Art (Audio: Lecture II.6.5)
- New Horizons (Audio: Lecture I.1.4)
- Origins of Western Mythology (Audio: Lecture I.6.1)
- Rarity: A Sukhavati Companion
- Society and Symbol (Audio: Lecture I.4.3)
- Symbolism and the Individual (Audio: Lecture I.1.3)
- Symbols of the Christian Faith (Audio: Lecture II.3.1)
- The Arthurian Tradition (Audio: Lecture I.6.3)
- The Celebration of Life (Audio: Lecture I.1.1)
- The Function of Mythology (Audio: Lecture II.1.1)
- The Grail Legend (Audio: Lecture I.6.4)
- The Individual in Oriental Mythology (Audio: Lecture I.1.2)
- The Inward Journey (Audio: Lecture I.2.2)
- The Mythic Approach to Life Literature & Art (Audio: Lecture II.5.5)
- The Mythic Goddess (Audio: Lecture II.3.4)
- The Mythic Image (Audio: Lecture II.3.3)
- The Mythology of Love (Audio: Lecture I.6.2)
- The Necessity of Rites (Audio: Lecture I.4.4)
- The Psychological Basis of Freedom (Audio: Lecture II.6.2)
- The Religious Impulse (Audio: Lecture I.5.5)
- The Sound AUM and Kundalini Yoga (Audio: Lecture II.1.3)
- The Way of Beauty (Audio: Lecture II.5.6)
- The World Soul (Audio: Lecture I.2.5)
- Thomas Mann and James Joyce (Audio: Lecture II.1.7)
- Ulysses Part 1 (Audio: Lecture III.1.3)
- Ulysses Part 2 (Audio: Lecture III.1.4)
Results from the Quotations of Joseph Campbell
- Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit –– which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time and throughout the whole length of your days.
- And so let us turn now to the next great phase of development of this magical world of inspiration, wherein the Grail became the vessel of the Last Supper. For over what formerly had been but Celtic magic the baptismal waters of the Church were poured, and caldrons became chalices: where Manannan Mac Lir had served the ale of immortality and the flesh of swine that, killed today, were alive again tomorrow, Christ arrived to serve the wine of his blood and the meat of his immortal flesh.
- And one can readily understand, even share in some measure, their anxiety, since lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.
- The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding . . . It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal — carries the cross of the redeemer — not in the bright moments of his tribe’s great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
- And so, to return to our opening question: What is –– or what is to be –– the new mythology? It is -- and will forever be, as long as our human race exists –– the old, everlasting, perennial mythology, in its "subjective sense," poetically renewed in terms neither of a remembered past nor of a projected future, but of now: addressed, that is to say, not to the flattery of "peoples," but to the waking of individuals in the knowledge of themselves, not simply as egos fighting for place on the surface of this beautiful planet, but equally as centers of Mind at Large –– each in his own way at one with all, and with no horizons.
- Your biology is related to the biology of plants and animals: they too share the life energies – what we might term "body wisdom," in contrast to mental wisdom. When you move deeper in dream, when you move into the sphere of the permanent energies of your body, your mental wisdom is gradually extinguished, body wisdom (as it were) rises, and you experience the collective order of dream, where the imagery is identical to the imagery of myth. And since some of these images have not been allowed to play a role in your life, you come into relation to them with surprise.
- When Yahweh creates, he creates man of the earth and breathes life into the formed body. He’s not himself there present in that form. But the Goddess is within as well as without. Your body is of her body. There is in these mythologies a recognition of that kind of universal identity.
- The term "collective unconscious," or general unconscious, is used in recognition of the fact that there is a common humanity built into our nervous system out of which our imagination works.
- Deities have to become, as one great German scholar said, "transparent to the transcendent." The transcendent must show and shine through those deities. But it must shine through us, too, and through the spiritual things we are talking about.
- [Paul Gaugin] was a perfectly prosperous businessman with a family and a house; then he became fascinated by what began to open up for him in painting. You start doodling with things like painting and they might doodle you out of your life – that's what happened to Gaugin.
- Look up at the lights on the ceiling. Each bulb carries the light. We can think of this totality as many bulbs. On the other hand, we can focus on the one light that emanates from all the bulbs. What are we focusing on, the light or the lights?
- Evidently it is not science that has diminished man or divorced him from divinity. On the contrary... we are to recognize in this whole universe a reflection magnified of our own most inward nature; so that we are indeed its ears, its eyes, its thinking, and its speech – or, in theological terms, God's ears, God's eyes, God's thinking, and God's Word; and, by the same token, participants here and now in an act of creation that is continuous in the whole infinitude of that space of our mind through which the planets fly, and our fellows of earth now among them.
- In one of those cock-eyed theaters that are in New York, on 42nd and Broadway, I saw advertised Fire Women from Outer Space. That was a mythological idea. In Tibetan Buddhism these are called docheles—fire women from outer space! And in their spiritual powers they can excite you a little bit. And so I thought, Well, we’re getting back to the old days in a very funny way. Whenever the human imagination gets going, it has to work in the fields that myths have already covered. And it renders them in new ways, that’s all.
- When A.E. Housman writes that ”poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it,” and when he states again “that the intellect is not the fount of poetry, that it may actually hinder its production, and that it cannot even be trusted to recognize poetry when it is produced,” he is no more than reaffirming and lucidly formulating the first axiom of all creative art – whether it be in poetry, music, dance, architecture, painting, or sculpture – which is, namely, that art is not, like science, a logic of references but a release from reference and rendition of immediate experience; a presentation of forms, images, or ideas in such a way that they will communicate, not primarily a thought or even a feeling, but an impact.
- For amor is neither of the right-hand path (the sublimating spirit, the mind and community of man), nor of the indiscriminate left (the spontaneity of nature, the mutual incitement of the phallus and the womb), but is the path directly before one, of the eyes, and their message to the heart.
- For it is the artist who brings the images of a mythology to manifestation, and without images (whether mental or visual) there is no mythology.
- For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone—the creator and the destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.
- For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are the spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.
- For when scrutinized in terms not of what it is but of how it functions, of how it has served mankind in the past, of how it may serve today, mythology shows itself to be as amenable as life itself to the obsessions and requirements of the individual, the race, the age.
- In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.
- From the position of secular man (Homo sapiens), that is to say, we are to enter the play sphere of the festival, acquiescing in a game of belief, where fun, joy, and rapture rule in ascending series. The laws of life in time and space––economics, politics, and even morality––will thereupon dissolve. Whereafter, re-created by that return to paradise before the Fall, before the knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong, true and false, belief and disbelief, we are to carry the point of view of man the player (Homo ludens) back into life.
- God isn't a fact. God is a symbol. As soon as you interpret God as a fact, you are off the beam. . . Where I have used the word God let us simply say brahman, a neuter noun that refers past itself to the mystery of the total energy of life.
- How does the ordinary person come to an experience of the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. There are many ways, however, of coming to the transcendent experience.
- Human adulthood is not achieved until the twenties: [George Bernard] Shaw put it in the seventies: not a few look ahead to Purgatory.
- I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
- I had my first rock and roll experience at a performance of the Grateful Dead. Rock music had always seemed a bore to me, but I can tell you, at that concert, I found eight thousand people standing in mild rapture for five hours. The place was just a mansion of dance. And I thought, "Holy God! Everyone has just lost themselves in everybody else here!"
- If ever there was an art in which the whole community of man has worked – seasoned with the philosophy of the codger on the wharf and singing with the music of the spheres – it is this of the ageless tale.
- If we think of the Crucifixion only in historical terms, we lose the symbol’s immediate reference to ourselves. Jesus left his mortal body on the cross, the sign of earth, to go to the Father, with whom he was one. We, similarly, are to identify with the eternal life within us. The symbol also tells us of God’s willing acceptance of the cross, that is to say, of his participation in the trials and sorrows of human life in the world, so that he is here within us, not by way of a fall or mistake, but with rapture and joy. Thus the cross has dual sense: one, of our going to the divine; the other, of the coming of the divine to us. It is a true crossing
- If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion. Too many interpretations of the Crucifixion have failed to emphasize that relationship and emphasize instead the calamity of the event. . . . But crucifixion is not a calamity if it leads to new life. Through Christ’s crucifixion we were unshelled, which enabled us to be born to resurrection. That is not a calamity. So, we must take a fresh look at this event if its symbolism is to be sensed.
- We are now observing throughout our cultural world a resurgence of the cult of the immanence of the occult, within ourselves and within nature. The old Bronze Age realization of a micro-macrocosmic unity is returning, and everywhere all the old arts that were banished are coming back.
- In Japan all things are Buddha things. All things are themselves the real. The fluid aspect of impermanence is itself the absolute state.
- In what we think we know of the interior of the atom, as well as of the exploding stars in millions of spinning galaxies throughout an expanding space that is no longer, as in Newton’s view, ‘always similar and immovable,’ the old notion of a once-upon-a-time First Cause has given way to something more like an immanent ground of being, transcendent of conceptualization, which is in a continuous act of creation now.
- These little intertidal societies and the great human societies are manifestations of common principles; more than that: we understand that the little and the great societies are themselves units in a sublime, all-inclusive organism, which breathes and goes on, in dream-like half-consciousness of its own life-processes, oxidizing its own substance yet sustaining its wonderful form.
- It is for an obvious reason far easier to name examples of mythologies of war than mythologies of peace; for not only has conflict between groups been normal to human experience, but there is also the cruel fact to be recognized that killing is the precondition of all living whatsoever: life lives on life, eats life, and would otherwise not exist.
- It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religion, philosphies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth
- It may well be that a good deal of what has been advertised as representing the will of “Old Man” actually is but the heritage of a lot of old men, and that the main idea has been not so much to honor God as to simplify life by keeping woman in the kitchen.
- Let me now remark, as a comparative mythologist whose professional career has been spent comparing the mythological traditions of mankind, that I find it extremely useful to let the mind range over the whole field, observing that what is said one way in one tradition is said another way in another. They are all mutually illuminating.
- Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
- Life is joyful just as it is. I don’t believe there was anybody who intended it, but this is the way it is. James Joyce has a memorable line: 'History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.' And the way to wake from it is not to be afraid, and to recognize that all of this, as it is, is a manifestation of the horrendous power that is of all creation. The ends of things are always painful. But pain is part of there being a world at all … I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful, wonderful opera – except that it hurts.
- Life is joyful just as it is. I don’t believe there was anybody who intended it, but this is the way it is. James Joyce has a memorable line: 'History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.' And the way to wake from it is not to be afraid, and to recognize that all of this, as it is, is a manifestation of the horrendous power that is of all creation. The ends of things are always painful. But pain is part of there being a world at all.
- The central demand is to surrender our exclusivity, everything that defines us over against each other. . . . Whenever we emphasize otherness or out-groups, we are making persons into “it.”
- My magnificent master and great friend of many years ago, Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943), had a saying: "The best things can't be told: the second best are misunderstood." The second best are misunderstood because, as metaphors poetically of what cannot be told, they are misread prosaically as referring to tangible facts.
- In every sphere of human search and experience the mystery of the ultimate nature of being breaks into oxymoronic paradox, and the best that can be said of it has to be taken simply as metaphor––whether particles and waves or as Apollo and Dionysus, pleasure and pain. Both in science and in poetry, the principal of the anagogical metaphor is thus recognized today: it is only from the pulpit and the press that one hears of truths and virtues definable in fixed terms.
Myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical images, of the energies of the organs of the body in conflict with each other. This organ wants this, that organ wants that. The brain is one of the organs.
- Myth, like dream, is an expression of the human imagination thus grounded in the realities of the psyche and, like dream, reflecting equally the influences of a specific social environment (nomadic hunting-and-gathering tribe; settled agricultural sib, city state, or nation; vagrant desert horde; or militaristic empire), which, in turn, is linked to a landscape. The common ground, or element, of all mythology is consequently the biology of Homo sapiens sapiens, whereas the differentiating factors are (1) geography and (2) the cultural stage horizon. For it is a fact that every mythological system has taken shape within a given geographical horizon, conditioned not only by the landscape from which its imagery is derived, but also by the limits of the body of information according to which all appearances in that only known world are interpreted.
- Myth is dreamlike and, like dream, a spontaneous product of the psyche; like dream, revelatory of the psyche and hence of the whole nature and destiny of man; like dream –– like life –– enigmatic to the uninitiated ego; and, like dream, protective of that ego.
- Myth makes a connection between our waking consciousness and the mystery of the universe. It gives us a map or picture of the universe and allows us to see ourselves in relationship to nature, as when we speak of Father Sky and Mother Earth. It supports and validates a certain social and moral order. The Ten Commandments being given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai is an example of this. Lastly, it helps us pass through and deal with the various stages of life from birth to death.
- Mythology — and therefore civilization — is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels. The shallowest minds see in it the local scenery; the deepest, the foreground of the void; and between are all the stages of the Way from the ethnic to the elementary idea, the local to the universal being, which is Everyman, as he both knows and is afraid to know. For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone — the creator and destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.
- Mythology, in other words, is not an outmoded quaintness of the past, but a living complex of archetypal, dynamic images, native to, and eloquent of, some constant, fundamental stratum of the human psyche. And that stratum is the source of the vital energies of our being. Out of it proceed all the fate-creating drives and fears of our lives. While our educated, modern waking-consciousness has been going forward on the wheels and wings of progress, this recalcitrant, dream-creating, wish-creating, under-consciousness has been holding to its primeval companions all the time, the demons and the gods.
- Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
- Myths are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. I know when I come to one of these thresholds now. The myth tells me about it, how to respond to certain crises of disappointment or delight or failure or success. The myths tell me where I am.
- Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
- Nirvāṇa literally means “blown out”; the image is that once one has realized one’s unity with what is called the Buddha mind — this is the Buddhist conception of Brahman — then one’s individual ego is extinguished like a candle flame, and one becomes one with the great solar light.
- No experience can be taught; all that can be taught is the way to an experience. Hence Buddhism is something that is implicit in ourselves and is to be achieved through experience but cannot be delivered to us like a package. No sooner did [the Buddha] have this illumination than the deities themselves came down and they said, "Teach." So he said, "For the good of man and the gods I will teach." But what he teaches is not Buddhism; what he teaches is the way to Buddhism; and this is called the Middle Way
- Star Wars deals with the essential problem: Is the machine going to control humanity, or is the machine going to serve humanity? Darth Vader is a man taken over by a machine, he becomes a machine, and the state itself is a machine. There is no humanity in the state. What runs the world is economics and politics, and they have nothing to do with the spiritual life.
- Of what profit to the young man going off to war to have chanted over him, five long days and nights, the hymns and prayers of such a rite? What can be the meaning of this solemn sitting or standing or walking on a picture, this wearing of feathers and string? To anyone familiar with the pictorial language of myth and cult the answer is clear and simple: the one sung over becomes identified, inwardly and outwardly, with the divine hero, and thus imbibes his power and the harmony of his perfection.
- One characteristic of Buddhism, in contrast to Christianity, is that Buddhism does not eliminate deities. Rather, they are seen as manifestations of Buddha-consciousness in the mode of a given culture and are kept. When the MacArthur people took a census of religious beliefs in Japan, they found that there were more religious believers than there were people, because everyone was both a Shinto and a Buddhist.
- Our first tangible evidences of mythological thinking are from the period of Neanderthal Man, which endured from ca. 250,000 to ca. 50,000 B.C.; and these comprise, first, burials with food supplies, grave gear, tools, sacrificed animals, and the like; and second, a number of chapels in high-mountain caves, where cave-bear skulls, ceremonially disposed in symbolic settings, have been preserved.
- Our outward-oriented consciousness, addressed to the demands of the day, may lose touch with these inward forces; and the myths, states Jung, when correctly read, are the means to bring us back in touch.
- Pandora is another inflection of the idea of the woman who brings bounty into the world. The later, smart aleck, masculine-inflected story of Pandora—the notion that every woman brings with her a box of troubles—is simply another way of saying that all life is sorrowful. Of course, trouble comes with life; as soon as you have movement in time, you have sorrows and disasters. Where there is bounty, there is suffering.
- People feel panicky at the thought that we might all have something in common, that they are giving up some exclusive hold on the truth. It is something like discovering that you are a Frenchman and a human being at the same time. That is exactly the challenge that the great religions face in the Space Age.
- Perfection is inhuman. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love––and I mean love, not lust––is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real human peeks through, say, "This is a challenge to my compassion." Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
- Our outward-oriented consciousness, addressed to the demands of the day, may lose touch with these inward forces; and the myths, states Jung, when correctly read, are the means to bring us back in touch. They are telling us in picture language of powers of the psyche to be recognized and integrated in our lives, powers that have been common to the human spirit forever, and which represent that wisdom of the species by which man has weathered the millenniums.
- Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.
- A mythology is an organization of symbolic narratives and images that are metaphorical of the possibilities of human experience and fulfillment in a given society at a given time.
- The "monstrous, irrational, and unnatural" motifs in folklore and myth are derived from the reservoirs of dream and vision. On the dream level such images represent the total state of the individual dreaming psyche. But clarified of personal distortions and profounded by poets, prophets, and visionaries, they become symbolic of the spiritual norm for Man the Microcosm. They are thus phrases from an image-language, expressive of a metaphysical, psychological, and sociological truth.
- The aim of all religious exercises is a psychological transformation. You can make up your own meditations and rites based on knowing, loving, and serving the deity in caring for your children, doctoring drunks, or writing books. Any work whatsoever can be a meditation if you have the sense that everything is "brahman": the process, the doing, the thing that is being looked at, the one that is looking—everything.
- The archetypes to be discovered and assimilated are precisely those that have inspired, throughout the annals of human culture, the basic images of ritual, mythology, and vision.
- The beauty of the rite ... is the beauty of one's essential nature. By participation in the rite, by uniting the mind with that beauty, by walking the way of the god, one becomes profoundly composed. The landscape of the myth is the landscape of the human spirit.
- How mythology functions, why it is generated and required by the human species, why it is everywhere essentially the same, and why the rational destruction of it conduces to puerility, become known the moment one abandons the historical method of tracing secondary origins and adopts the biological view ... which considers the primary organism itself, this universal carrier and fashioner of history, the human body.
- The fairy world is just one small dimension deeper than the visible world; it’s everywhere. The fairies are the inhabiting nature powers, and the reason they are so fascinating and enchanting is that their nature and your unconscious nature, your deep nature, are the same. The fairies are representatives of that permanent energy consciousness that underlies all the phenomenal forms of life. This is Mother Goddess stuff.
- The figure of the tyrant-monster is known to the mythologies, folk traditions, legends, and even nightmares of the world; and his characteristics are everywhere essentially the same… The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world—no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world’s messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions. Wherever he sets his hand there is a cry (if not from the housetops, then—more miserably—within every heart): a cry for the redeeming hero, the carrier of the shining blade, whose blow, whose touch, whose existence, will liberate the land.
- The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
- The Grail becomes that which is attained and realized by people who have lived their own lives. The Grail represents the fulfillment of the highest spiritual potentialities of the human consciousness.
- The Grail romance is that of the God in your own heart. And the Christ becomes a metaphor. A symbol for that transcendent power which is the support and being of your own life.
- The great German philosopher Schopenhauer, in a magnificent essay on 'The Foundation of Morality,' treats of this transcendental spiritual experience. How is it, he asks, that an individual can so forget himself and his own safety that he will put himself and his life in jeopardy to save another from death or pain—as though that other’s life were his own, that other’s danger his own? Such a one is then acting, Schopenhauer answers, out of an instinctive recognition of the truth that he and that other in fact are one. He has been moved not from the lesser, secondary knowledge of himself as separate from others, but from an immediate experience of the greater, truer truth, that we are all one in the ground of our being. Schopenhauer’s name for this motivation is 'compassion,' Mitleid, and he identifies it as the one and only inspiration of inherently moral action. It is founded, in his view, in a metaphysically valid insight. For a moment one is selfless, boundless, without ego.
- The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.
- How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand times, throughout the millennia of mankind’s prudent folly? That is the hero’s ultimate difficult task. How render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? How represent on a two-dimensional surface a three-dimensional form, or in a three-dimensional image a multi-dimensional meaning? How translate into terms of “yes” and “no” revelations that shatter into meaninglessness every attempt to define the pairs of opposites? How communicate to people who insist on the exclusive evidence of their senses the message of the all-generating void?
- The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience. Doubt comes in, and so forth. You must remember: all of the great traditions, and little traditions, in their own time were scientifically correct. That is to say, they were correct in terms of the scientific image of that age.
- The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world—no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world’s messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions.
- The inner harmonization, the opening of the heart to humanity, is the main thing––and it must open to all humanity. This is no retreat, but a rejection of the partial judgment on humanity that is characteristic of social theories. The artist goes past that. Strindberg once said, "All politicians are one-eyed cats. Some see with the right eye, some see with the left eye, but the artist sees with two eyes at once."
- The interior of man has been essentially the same for 40,000 years, since the first emergence of Homo Sapiens. Myth has to do with the spiritual potentialities of this constant, this human being. But the images of myth must be derived from the environment of today and in this place. There is therefore a constant transformation of the image, but not of the reference.
- The inward journeys of the mythological hero, the shaman, the mystic, and the schizophrenic are in principle the same; and when the return or remission occurs, it is experienced as a rebirth: the birth, that is to say, of a "twice-born" ego, no longer bound in by its daylight-world horizon.
- The journey of the hero … I consider the pivotal myth that unites the spiritual adventure of ancient heroes with the modern search for meaning. As always, the hero must venture forth from the world of common-sense consciousness into a realm of supernatural wonder. There he encounters fabulous forces – demons and angels, dragons and helping spirits. After a fierce battle he wins a decisive victory over the powers of darkness. Then he returns from his mysterious adventure with the gift of knowledge or of fire, which he bestows on his fellow man.
- The landscape of myth is the human spirit.
- The landscape of the myth is the landscape of the human spirit.
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
- In the Great Seal of the United States the reference is to the inspiration of the light of Reason in the constitution of the originating 13 colonies brought together as one nation: e pluribus unum, “out of many, one.”
- The magic of the sacraments (made effective through the passion of Jesus Christ, or by virtue of the meditations of the Buddha), the protective power of primitive amulets and charms, and the supernatural helpers of the myths and fairy tales of the world, are mankind’s assurances that the arrow, the flames, and the flood are not as brutal as they seem.
- The mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents-even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it. The one wearing it, furthermore, is identified with the god during the time of the ritual of which the mask is a part. He does not merely represent the god; he is the god.
- The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding.
- The modern Western concept of a legal code is not of a list of unassailable divine edicts but of a rationally contrived, evolving compilation of statutes, shaped by fallible human beings in council, to realize rationally recognized social (and therefore temporal) aims. We understand that our laws are not divinely ordained; and we know also that no laws of any people on earth ever were. Thus we know -- whether we dare to say so or not -- that our clergies have no more right to claim unassailable authority for their moral law than for their science.
- The new mythology is already implicit among us as knowledge a priori, native to the mind. Its images will be derived from contemporary life, thought, and experience, anywhere and everywhere, and the moral order to the support of which they are brought shall be of the unifying culture of mankind.
- Furthermore, the old in many societies spend a considerable part of their time playing with and taking care of the youngsters, while the parents delve and spin: so that the old are returned to the sphere of eternal things not only within but without. And we may take it also, I should think, that the considerable mutual attraction of the very young and the very old may derive something from their common, secret knowledge that it is they, and not the busy generation between, who are concerned with a poetic play that is eternal and truly wise.
- The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. . . . This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to –– as well as demand of –– the world.
- The secret of dreams is that subject and object are the same. The object is self-luminous, fluent in form, multivalent in its meanings. It's your dream, the manifestation of your will, and yet you are surprised by it ... Write down your dreams. They are your myths.
- The universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world ... are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve. This is the power known to science as energy, to the Melanesians as mana, to the Sioux Indians as wakonda, the Hindus as Shakti, and the Christians as the power of God.
- [Quoting Jean Erdman Campbell:] "The way of the mystic and the way of the artist are related, except that the mystic doesn't have a craft."
- The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man.
- The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero’s passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale. Therefore it is formulated in the broadest terms. The individual has only to discover his own position with reference to this general human formula, and let it then assist him past his restricting walls.
- The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero's passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale. Therefore it is formulated in the broadest terms. The individual has only to discover his own position with reference to this general human formula and let it then assist him past his restricting walls. Who and where are his ogres? Those are the reflections of the unresolved enigmas of his own humanity. What are his ideals? Those are the symptoms of his grasp of life
- The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale—as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source
- There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your guidance and instruction from others, but you must find your own path.
- There is a definition of God which has been repeated by many philosophers. God is an intelligible sphere—a sphere known to the mind, not to the senses—whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. And the center . . . is right where you’re sitting. And the other one is right where I’m sitting. And each of us is a manifestation of that mystery. That’s a nice mythological realization that sort of gives you a sense of who and what you are.
- There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river. One was a god; he drank ambrosia. One was a man; he drank water. One was a demon; he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.
- I myself have been traveling around quite a bit, these years, from one college campus to another, and everywhere the first question asked me is, "Under what sign were you born?" The mysteries of the Tarot pack, the I Ching, and Transcendental Meditation . . . Well, all this is just the beginning, the first signaling of a dawning realization of the immanence of the occult, and of this as something important for our living.
- Living with these things all the time, I can see how there are certain universal patterns for these manifestations. A shaman among the Navajo or in the Congo will be saying things which sound so much like, say, Nicholas Cusanus or Thomas Aquinas, or C. G. Jung, that one just has to realize that these ranges of experiences are common to the human race.
- We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being, the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one's days. That is the birth––the Virgin Birth––in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.
- We are the sensing organs of the Earth. We are the senses of the universe. We have it all right here within us. And the deities that we once thought were out there, we now know, were projected out of ourselves. They are the products of our human imagination seeking to interpret, one way or another, the mysteries of the universe....
- What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination? We know their histories: we know by what stages they developed. Not only Freud and Jung, but all serious students of psychology and of comparative religions today, have recognized and hold that the forms of myth and the figures of myth are of the nature essentially of dream.
- What myth does for you is to point beyond the phenomenal field toward the transcendent. A mythic figure is like the compass that you used to draw circles and arcs in school, with one leg in the field of time and the other in the eternal. The image of a god may look like a human or animal form, but its reference is transcendent of that.
- What the mythic image shows is the way in which the cosmic energy manifests itself in time, and as the times change, the modes of manifestation change.
- What the virgin birth represents is the birth of the spiritual life in the human animal. It has nothing to do mythologically with a biological anomaly. In the Indian kuṇḍalinī system the first three cakras are our animal zeal to life, animal erotics, and animal aggression. Then at the level of the heart there is the birth of a purely human intention, a purely human realization of a possible spiritual life which then puts the others in secondary place. The symbol in the kuṇḍalinī system for this cakra is a male and female organ in conjunction—an upward facing and a downward-facing triangle. At this level the spiritual life is generated, and that is the meaning of the virgin birth.
- I can tell you that when a mythic dimension is opened to people, happiness, joy, and a sense of what might be called self-potentiality is opened to them as well. They have been given the saving image of human self-confidence and a new appreciation of the value of being human. Without this, they remain the toys of some political elite enforcing its own will for its own self-satisfaction and profit
- When real trouble comes, your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
- In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say "Aha," that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.
- When we consider, however, instead of the physical, the psychological character of our species, the most evident distinguishing sign is man's organization of his life according primarily to mythic, and only secondarily economic, aims and laws.
- When you just now rang my doorbell, I was right in the middle of a sentence about an American Indian initiation: an initiation myth having to do with two boys––twin heroes––born of a virgin. Their father is the Sun. Monsters are troubling the land, and the boys––one a warrior and the other a medicine man––journey to their father the Sun to get weapons. The father puts them through a series of four terrible tests, and when they survive these tests, he initiates them, tells them what their true names are. That's it––the awakening to the inward self, to the knowledge of who you truly are.
- "Whence do all these so widely shared themes and motifs derive?" we might ask. "Where do dragons come from? Where, for example, on the map, might I draw a circle to mark the homeland of the species dragon? Or is that place not to be found, perhaps, in any part of the map at all?" If questions of this kind occur to us and we take them seriously enough to begin to look for answers, the quest may take us not only into every part of the world and century of the past, into oriental temples, painted paleolithic caves, and the deepest jungle sanctuaries, but also, in some way or other, inward, upward, and downward, following shamans on their visionary journeys and witches to their sabbaths.
- The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero’s passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale. Therefore it is formulated in the broadest terms. The individual has only to discover his own position with reference to this general human formula, and let it then assist him past his restricting walls. Who and where are his ogres? Those are the reflections of the unsolved enigmas of his own humanity. What are his ideals? Those are the symptoms of his grasp of life.
- Many traditional societies regard magic as being originally the woman’s possession and the men have stolen it or taken it from them because it’s a woman’s thing.
- You are in the field of time when you are man. And one of the problems of life is to live in the realization of both terms. That is to say, I know the center, and I know that good and evil are simply temporal apparitions.
- You know, the virtue manager is the real curse of the modern world, I think. The one who's got righteousness on his side and knows that everyone else is to be corrected.
- (The Greeks) did not personify that mystery in a being before whom the human spirit should abdicate but, on the contrary, recognized that the supreme manifestation on earth of that same mystery and wonder is the human mind itself, well housed in the beautiful human body.
- When life produces what the intellect names evil, we may enter into righteous battle, contending from "loyalty of heart": however, if the principle of love (Christ's "Love your enemies!") is lost, our humanity too will be lost. "Man," in the words of the American novelist Hawthorne, "must not disclaim his brotherhood even with the guiltiest."
Results from the Myth Blasts of Joseph Campbell
- A Lovely Nothing
- A Lover’s Quarrel With the World
- An Interplay of Opposites
- Archetypal-Mechanics from an Unseen Aid
- Artistic Origins
- At the Party: My Selves and Sundries
- Blowing Up the Binary: Beyond Feminine and Masculine
- Changing Our Self-Perception As A Compassionate Deed For The World
- Creative Mythology: The Choreographer and the Spectator
- Cunneware’s Laugh: The Enticement of Delight
- Dear and Gorgeous Nonsense: The Poetic Impulse in Myth
- Don’t Panic
- Don’t Look Up: The Doomsday Dilettante
- Dreams, Images of the Feminine, and the Venus of Laussel: What Paleolithic Venuses Tells Us Today
- Dune: Breakthrough as Breakdown of the One
- Ego, Irony, and the Goddess
- Engaging The Renewing Feminine Within
- Finding the Gold Within
- Flirting With Reality: At Play in the Play of the World
- Fools Rush In
- In the Company of Coyote
- In the Service of Creative Being
- In The Stillness of Love’s Madness
- Incarcerated, But Not Imprisoned: Joseph Campbell’s Hero Myth
- Joseph Campbell On the Moon
- Journey in Silence
- Journey Through Myth
- Journeys of Renewal Through Hadestown
- Listening to Hero
- Living Myths for Transformation
- Merlin, Mystic Master of Warrior Princes, and the Lost Art of Mentorship
- Merry Christmyth!
- Metamorphosis: Dreaming the New Songs
- Missteps as a Redemptive Path to Destiny
- Myth: The Grammar of Creativity
- The Vicarious Reaches of Cyberspace
- 70 Years of the Hero’s Journey
- A Bastion for Hope
- A Joycean Affair in June. Or July.
- A Little Rebellion is a Good Thing
- A Mind of Myth, Part II
- A Mind of Myth, Pt. I
- A Most Rare Vision
- A Toolbox For the New Year
- Almosting It: The Paradox of James Joyce
- Amor Fati – Love Your Fate
- An Impossible Thanksgiving: Story of the Birds and Beasts and the Son of Adam
- Art as Revelation
- Attitudes of Gratitude
- Beginnings and Endings
- Beyond the Moonshine
- Bliss is not Found in Faithfulness to Forms, But in Liberation From Them
- Campbell and Esalen: An Enduring Quest for Meaning
- Campbell, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence
- Cosmic Marriage
- Creative Mythology: Revelation of the Real
- Cultivating Gratitude through the Transcendent Function
- Dancing in the New Year
- Dancing with the Unknown
- Death, Eggshells, Zombies
- Mythblast | Descent and the Birth of the Self
- Doors Will Open
- Dreaming the Lotus
- Eclipse: It is in Darkness One Finds the Light
- El Niño Dios, the Goddess, and the Cross
- Flowers, Death, and the Mythology of Horror Films: A Midsommar Night’s Dream
- Following My Bliss
- Foreword to Myths of Light
- Forsaking the Easy for the Harder Pleasures
- Four Mysteries of Initiation in Pathways To Bliss
- From the Great Mother to the Age of Belief: Campbell on the Mythologies of Europe & the Middle East
- Funerals, The Devil, and Poison Ivy (Mythology of Horror Films)
- Hopi Kachinas: The Essence of Everything
- Inner Revolutions
- Into the Soul’s Revolution
- Joseph Campbell, Angela Gregory, and a Future Awaiting All of Us
- Joseph Campbell: A Normal, Beautiful, Standard Life
- Joseph Campbell: Virtuoso of the Sublime
- Juno: Not Everyone Knows How to Love the Terrifying, Strange, or Beautiful
- Laughing Heroes
- Leaky Transcendence
- Life, Resurrection, and the Mythic Teachings of Frogs
- Love of a Higher Order
- Love, Longing, and Wildness
- Love: A Modern Mythology
- Love: The Burning Point of Life
- May the Blessings of St. Patrick Behold You
- Metaphors, Video Stores, and Old Magic
- Mine and Yours: Wandering into Story
- Modern Quests
- Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
- Myth and Magic
- Myth as Fictional Fabrication
- Myth, Campbell & Film
- Mythic Imagination: The In-Between
- Mythic Mavericks
- Mythic Play
- Myths of Light
- Myths of Light — transcendence and reflection
- Myths We Love By
- Nerves of Myth, Part I
- Nerves of Myth, Part II
- OK, Boomer, Star Wars, and Myth
- Our Global Movement
- Paleolithic Cave Art, Time, and Eternity
- Penelope’s Loom
- Play and The Ecstasy of Being in Times of Sorrow
- Political Matters
- Practical Campbell Essay: Spirit Wind
- Practical Campbell | The Mythologist & the Muses
- Practical Campbell: Original Campbell
- Ramadan: The Empowerment of Self Restraint
- Re-membering: A Mythopoetic Interpretation of The Handless Maiden
- Reawakening Wonder
- Renaissance
- Revolution of One
- Samhain: Sympathetic Magic
- Scares and Scars
- Searching For The Pimander In The Midst Of Coronavirus: Redefining Relationships in This Dark Night
- Separation, Initiation, and Return
- Shiva and the Great Dance
- Strictly Platonic: The Clash Between Education and Sports
- Sustaining the Celebration
- Tat Tvam Asi: The Blessing of Compassion
- Telling Big Stories: Paradox & Personal Myth
- Temenos and the Power of Myth
- The Afflictions of Philoctetes: The Work of Some Rude Hand
- The Air We Breathe
- The Ancient Craft of the Beautiful
- The Audacity of Independence
- The Birth of Tenderness
- The Boon of a Well-Furnished Mythic Toolbox
- The Coming of the Light
- The Communitas of Story
- The Cruelest Month
- The Dark Light of the Goddess
- The Divine Wisdom of Play
- The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance
- The Emerging Hero
- The Flowering of the Feminine Divine
- The Fortunate Fall
- The Giver of Gifts Who Destroys Obstacles
- The Goddess, Beautiful in Tears
- The Grateful Dead, Adult Entertainment, and Native Tongues
- The Healing Fullness of the Wasteland
- The Hearth of Community
- The Human Symphony: Notes From Asia
- The Known and the Unknowable: A Meeting of Light and Dark
- The Labor of Following Your Bliss
- The Lively Art of Letter Writing
- The Love-Death
- The Magic of Timeless Tales
- The Mysteries at Eleusis: Different and Luckier
- The Mythology of Celebration
- The No in Inspired Learning
- The Paradox of the Outsideness of Myth
- The Place of Bliss
- The Power of Story to Enrapt and Entrap Us
- The Province of the Primitive
- The Quest of Creative-Being Itself
- The Radiant, Reordering Force of Art
- The Ripening Outcast
- The Rules of Enchantment
- The Sagacity of Fools
- The Season as Sacred
- The Secret Cause
- Mythblast | The Secularization of the Sacred and Mythic Identification
- The Song of the Quest
- The Still Point of the Turning World
- The Tiger King
- The Transcendent Summer Solstice
- The Transparency of the New Year
- The Turn of the Pollen Path
- The Undiscovered Country
- The Unfinished Story
- The Use of Myth: The Power of the Fleeting Apparition
- The Uses of Myth: Disengage Your Arrows
- The War of Sport
- The Wedding of Dame Ragnell and Sir Gawain
- The Winter Solstice and Other Metaphors
- The Word Divine
- There and Stuck Again: The Creative Darkness of the Soul
- This Day, the Beginning of Works; Remembrance of the First Day
- Through The Looking Glass
- Thus Were the Meditations of the Serviceable Mind
- Underworld Initiation in Our Age
- Valentine’s Day
- Voicing Joseph Campbell: How His Story Becomes Our Own
- Wearing the Mask of God
- What is Myth? It’s a Mythtery!
- What Will Be, Is
- What’s Old Is New Again: Primitive Mythology
- Where Do Stories Come From?
- Why Symbols?
- Why We Rise
- Wizards and Warriors Camp
- Worlds Above, Worlds Beneath – There is No One in the World Like Me
- You Are It And It Is Nothing
- Zarathustra, Campbell, Nietzsche and Bliss
- MythBlast | King, Campbell, and the Ecstasy of Being
- MythBlast | The Flight of the Wild Gander: The Teacher as Midwife
- NewsBlast | “Bios & Mythos” now available!
- NewsBlast | Joseph Campbell’s Correspondence available for the first time
- NewsBlast | Love for Esalen in Hard Times
- NewsBlast | Mythic Ideas & Modern Culture Final Three Lectures Now Available!
- NewsBlast | Read Joseph Campbell’s Asian Journals – India and Japan
- NewsBlast | Read Occidental Mythology as an eBook
- NewsBlast | Russian Rap and the Hero’s Journey™
- NewsBlast | The Ecstasy of Being is Now Available
- NewsBlast | The Historical Development of Mythology ePub
- NewsBlast | The Mythic Dimension is now open to you!
- NewsBlast | The Mythic Dimension now in paperback
- NewsBlast | Thou Art That eBook Now Available
- NewsBlast | Two New Audio Lectures from Mythic Ideas and Modern Culture
- NewsBlast | Wassail! Our Thanks for Great Kindness and a Jolly Wassail!
- NewsBlast | Flight of the Wild Gander now available as an ebook!
- One Way to Avoid Hell
- Origins are *Mythsterious.*
- Pareidolia, Paradox, and Playing the Fool: When Writing an Article Precipitates an Existential Crisis about Your Field
- Poetic Imagination: The Rich Language Of Image And Metaphor
- Rediscovering the Cosmic Navel
- Reflections upon a Hawaiian Graveyard
- Returning to the Void: The Sacred Dawn of Mythic History
- Rhythms of the Grail
- Riddle Me This
- Rocking New Year’s Eve
- Sacrificial Origins
- Separating Lambs from Goats
- Skywoman’s Sacred Creative Power
- Storytelling and the Priestcraft of Art
- Symbolons of Love
- Temptations of Clarity
- The androgyne as mystical symbol: new audio lectures
- The Antlered Child: Changing Shapes, Changing Souls
- The Beautiful, Hidden Harmony of Chaos
- The Blooming of Truth: Campbell on the Mythic Past
- The Boundary-Blurring Nature of Myth
- The Child of Symbolic Disguise
- The Children of Myth and Pixar
- The Festival of the Passing Forms
- The Fires of Love-Death
- The Fool in Us: What This Archetype May Teach Us in 2023
- The Foolish Things of the World Confound the Wise
- The Goddess of the Star Card: Lighting the Way Back
- The Grail Never Fails: Continue the Search in the New Year
- The Greatest Poem is Lyric Life Itself
- The Healing Integrity of Love
- The Holiness of the Heart’s Affections
- The Illusions of Failure
- The Infinite Reach of Mercy
- The Inner Reaches of Outer Space is Within Reach
- The Jewel In The Lotus
- The King Who Saved Himself From Being Saved
- The Magic of Describing the Perfect Pizza
- THE MANDALORIAN and Dangerous Origins
- The Many Faces of the Goddess
- The Mythical Game of The Green Knight
- The New Old Age
- The Outward Foundation for Inward Flowering
- The Power of Tenderness: Ted Lasso, Grail Hero
- The Power of the Personal: Flight of the Wild Gander
- The Rhythmic Cadence of Life
- The River Erdman
- The Round Table
- The Sacred in Place and Time
- The Sacredness of Rituals
- The Seeds of a Story
- The Serpent Flowering
- The Star
- The Star as a Sign: From Pandora’s Box and Bethlehem to the Present
- The Star of the Archetypal Imagination
- The Temptations of Metaphor
- The Union of Purposeful Polarities
- The Way of Art and Two-Way Roads
- There and Back Again
- Thinking at the Edges of Joseph Campbell: The Future of the MythBlast Series
- To Be Human Among Titans and Gods
- To The Female God of the Labyrinth
- Tossing the Golden Ball
- Tracking the Wild Feminine
- Truth or Consequences
- UFO: A Living Myth of Transformation
- Virtue and Democracy
- We Are Lived by Powers We Pretend to Understand
- We Happy Few
- When Metaphors Become Zombies
- Where There Is No Path And No Gate
- Whosoever Loses Their Life Will Find It
- Why Not Dance?
- “The Hero of Yesterday Becomes the Tyrant of Tomorrow”
Results from the Mythological Resources of Joseph Campbell
- ‘Valley of Gods’ Explores Navajo Mythology
- A Box of Rain: Lyrics: 1965-1993
- A Hero’s Journey: A Freshman Orientation Challenge Course Program
- A History of God
- A Man Called Horse
- African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man
- Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine
- Analects
- ARAS (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism)
- Archai: the Journal of Archetypal Cosmology
- Archetypal Figures in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality
- Archetypal Psychology
- Archives of Conjure
- Art and Friendship: Joseph Campbell and Angela Gregory in ‘A Dream and a Chisel’
- Beowulf on Steorarume (Beowulf in Cyberspace)
- Boss Level: How to Hack Your Way to the Top of Your Career
- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Cannery Row
- Choreographer/JCF Co-Founder Jean Erdman Passes at 104
- Christopher Doyle Explores Mythology
- Classical Mythology
- Coyote Still Going: Native American Legends and Contemporary Stories
- Damascus Gate
- Dances With Wolves
- Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave
- Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
- Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Firmament-Chaos
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
- For the Love of Sophia
- Gamut Theatre Group
- Global House Holistic
- Goddesses for Every Day: Exploring the Wisdom and Power of the Divine Feminine around the World
- Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives
- Gods and Games: Toward a New Mythology of Play
- Group Exhibition to Explore Goddess Mythology, Gender Binaries and Archetypes
- He: Understanding Masculine Psychology
- Hero Quest Classroom Game
- How Natives Think
- How to Ride a Dragon: Women with Breast Cancer Tell Their Stories
- Human Relations Area Files
- Immanence – The Journal of Applied Myth, Story and Folklore
- Immanence: the Journal of Applied Mythology, Legend, and Folktale
- In the Footsteps of Joseph Campbell – France, Summer 2019 – Romance of the Grail with Evans Lansing Smith
- International Storytelling Festival Brings Mythology to Millennials
- Internet Classics Archive
- Iron John
- Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
- Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
- Joseph Campbell & Marija Gimbutas Library
- Lady of the Lotus-Born: The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal
- Literature and Film as Modern Mythology
- Mandala Zone
- Meeting the Shadow – The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature
- Melville’s Moby-Dick
- Messenger Theatre Co.
- MICHAEL MEADE Mosaic Voices
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
- Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2: A Love Story
- Myth, Magic, and Metaphor : A Journey Into the Heart of Creativity
- Mythic Imagination Institute
- Mythical Figures: Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, Vol. 6 (James Hillman Uniform Edition)
- Northern Mythology
- Nurturing the Souls of Our Children: Education and the Culture of Democracy
- NYPL Archives: Joseph Campbell Papers
- Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives
- One Woman’s Mind
- OPUS Archives
- OPUS Archives and Research Center
- Orion’s Guiding Stars
- Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Parabola Magazine
- Parzival
- Passages
- Patterns of Culture
- Penn Museum
- Persephone
- Perseus Project at Tufts
- Persian mythology comes alive in animated ‘The Last Fiction’
- Princess Mononoke
- Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience
- Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell
- Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story Through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell
- Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell – A Workshop with Dennis Patrick Slattery
- Rabbit Ears Treasury of Animal Stories
- Rabbit Ears Treasury of Fables and Other Stories
- Rabbit Ears Treasury of Fairy Tales and Other Stories
- Rabbit Ears Treasury of Heroines
- Rabbit Ears Treasury of Storybook Classics
- Rabbit Ears Treasury… Others in the series
- Race, Language, and Culture
- Radio Documentary: The Hero’s Journey: A Guide To Life?
- Re-Visioning Psychology
- Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
- River Of Compassion
- Rock Art of the Lower Pecos River
- Ruby Slippers, LLC – The Heroine’s Journey
- Rumi: Poet of the Heart
- Sacred Mysteries: Myths About Couples in Quest
- Saybrook Graduate School
- Sea, Spirit, Sanctuary: Nantucket and Herman Melville’s Epic, Moby-Dick, as Spiritual Quest
- Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
- Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
- She: Understanding Feminine Psychology
- Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From The Great Philosophers
- Star Wars
- Star Wars: The Magic of Myth Exhibit
- Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman’s Odyssey
- The 13th Warrior
- The Alchemy Web Site
- The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
- The Archetypal Imagination
- The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seekers Guide to Making Travel Sacred
- The Art of War
- The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture
- The Awakening of Intelligence
- The Birth of Tragedy
- The Book of Tea
- The Dance of Shiva
- The Darkness Before Light
- The Drawing Lesson
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
- The Emerald Forest
- The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
- The Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts
- The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine
- The Grail Legend
- The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa
- The Hero’s Guidebook: Creating Your Own Hero’s Journey
- The Hero’s Quest and the Cycles of Nature: An Ecological Interpretation of World Mythology
- The Hero: Manhood and Power
- The Lessons of Nature in Mythology
- The ManKind Project
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
- The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
- The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
- The Need to Say No: The Importance of Setting Boundaries in Love, Life, & Your World
- The Origins of the World’s Mythologies
- The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses
- The Paragon
- The Passion of Isis and Osiris: A Gateway to Transcendent Love
- The Perennial Philosophy
- The Princess Bride
- The Romance Of The Grail – In the Footsteps of Joseph Campbell
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages
- The Seven Gods of Luck
- The Seventh Seal
- The Spell of the Sensuous
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- The Undiscovered Self: The Dilemma of the Individual in Modern Society
- The Urantia Book
- The Way of Myth: Stories’ Subtle Wisdom
- The Way of Zen
- The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
- The Work of Dennis Patrick Slattery
- The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Tikkun: collected essays on poetry, myth, and literature
- Time Enough For Love
- Totem and Taboo
- Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
- Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Roman Myth and Culture
- USES OF COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY: Essays on the Work of Joseph Campbell
- Violence and the Sacred
- Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime
- Walk Like an Egyptian: A Modern Guide to the Religion and Philosophy of Ancient Egypt
- Wampum Keeper
- We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love
- Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
- Zen in the Art of Archery
Results from the Campbell in Culture of Joseph Campbell
- ‘Gretel and Hansel’ Director Points to Campbell and Collective Unconscious
- ‘The Mandalorian’ Has Many Talking Campbell
- A Class of Campbell
- A Forceful Influence
- A Healthy Body and Balanced Mind
- A New Myth
- Acclaimed Jeweler Points to Campbell as Inspiration
- Actor Dominique Fishback Takes Campbell’s Concept as Mantra: “A Heroine With a Thousand Faces”
- Actress Pamela Anderson cites Campbell as Inspiration for Collecting Art
- Ad Astra and the Flawed Hero
- After The Blue
- Akira The Don & Joseph Campbell: The First Function of Mythology
- Amazing Joseph Campbell Inscription
- Andrew Garfield Points to Joseph Campbell For Spider-Man Prep
- AQUAMAN’s Hero’s Journey
- Art and Friendship: Joseph Campbell and Angela Gregory in ‘A Dream and a Chisel’
- Ayad Akhtar – Our Society of Money
- Black Panther: Hero and Science
- Blissful Corner
- Bran Stark, Hero or Seer?
- Brendan Gill on Campbell
- Burning Hero
- Campbell and Relationships
- Campbell and Storytelling in The New York Times
- Campbell Cited in Psychiatric Times
- Campbell Inspires Theme of Military Veterans’ Event
- Campbell Provides Inspiration For Musician Matthew Walker’s 1000Faces “Monomyyth” project
- Campbell’s Quotes
- Celebrating Joe
- Chasing Happy
- Christopher Nolan – Batman’s Journey
- Collider Uses Campbell to Suggest ‘Spaceballs’ is Better ‘Star Wars’ Sequel than ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
- Creator’s Creation
- Dan Brown’s Work Inspired by Joseph Campbell
- Dan Harmon and Joseph Campbell
- Dance Magazine Remembers Jean Erdman
- Deepak Chopra Honors Campbell and FOLLOW YOUR BLISS
- Delush Cites Campbell and ‘Hero’s Journey’ as Inspiration in New Album
- Earth is in the Heavens
- Extraordinarily Regular
- Finding The Hero Within Us
- Forward and Onwards
- From Empty Success to Bliss
- George Miller’s Take on Storytelling
- Hero’s Journey Used to Help Students Tell Their Stories
- Hero’s Resurrection
- Heroes Make Mistakes Too
- Heroic Men – The Path to Non-Toxic Masculinity
- How Campbell Helped Create a Tibetan Mandala
- Hugh Jackman Reads Campbell!
- Immigration Meets the Hero’s Journey
- In The Flow
- Jean Campbell Shares Some Wisdom
- Jean Erdman, a legend & pioneer, combined together dance & myth
- Joseph Campbell and Buddha
- Joseph Campbell and The Grateful Dead
- Joseph Campbell in Architecture
- Joseph Campbell Inspires Playwright
- Kellogg Prof at Northwestern Cites Joseph Campbell
- Kevin Galloway’s Solo Journey
- Life is an Endless Learning Experience
- Listen to UW-Milwaukee Philosophy Professor Talk Campbell, Mythology, and Star Wars on NPR
- Masters of the Universe influenced by Joseph Campbell
- Medical Professionals Point to Campbell in the Midst of Covid-19
- Mister Rodgers Documentary Creator Cites His Personal Hero’s Journey
- Moyers and Campbell
- Musical Ensemble at Dartmouth College Inspired by Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
- Mythology and the Psyche
- Nashville band, CORDOVAS, blends Joseph Campbell and Hero’s Journey into music
- New Exhibit, Terminus, at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Takes Campbell’s Hero’s Journey into New Artistic Spaces
- New Hope For New Stories
- NY Times Honors Jean Erdman
- Profile: George Lucas
- Public Radio Critic Points to Campbell for a Joyful Self-Quarantine
- Ray Dalio – Sharing His Ultimate Boon
- Reading Into Campbell
- Return to the Forest
- Rituals and Influences
- Robert Downey Jr Nods to Joseph Campbell in Explaining Iron Man Resolution
- Rocker Vernon Reid compares Jimi Hendrix to a “Joseph Campbell character, a Hero with a Thousand Faces”
- Rocking Through Time
- Ron Howard and Solo’s Journey
- RuPaul Talks Joseph Campbell on Jimmy Kimmel Show
- Russian Linesman Musically Explores the Monomyth
- San Francisco Chronicle Recommends Celebrating Star Wars Day By Watching Joseph Campbell
- Self-Help to Follow Your Bliss
- Ser Davos, the Sage
- Starting Over
- Superman’s Suit Embedded with Joseph Campbell Quote
- Taylor Swift and Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
- Thank Campbell for Modern Abridgment
- The Hero Inside All of Us
- The Legend of Zelda Celebrates 35th Anniversary with Campbell’s Mythic Structure
- The Mandalorian’s Giancarlo Esposito talks Joseph Campbell and Star Wars
- The Most Common Rite of Passage: A Piercing
- The Other Side of Myths
- The Power Of Myth – Jesus and Buddha Consciousness
- The Tim Ferriss Show Broadcasts The Power of Myth as Part of Podcast
- Top Ten Guitar Pedal Manufacturer Names Company After Campbell Quote
- Tri States Public Radio Encourages Heroes as Described by Campbell
- Trump’s Journey
- Two Heroes Meet
- UNC-Duke Basketball and Joseph Campbell
- Understanding Myth
- Upcoming Game, Last Soul, Uses Joseph Campbell as Basis For Story
- Wanderlust: Adventure Calling
- We Have Our Own Personal Missions
- Why We Watch Movies – It All Comes Down To Biology
- Wild and Blissful
- WNYC, Diane Wolkstein, and Joseph Campbell
- Wonder Woman: The Hero We All Needed
- Wonder Woman’s Sword in Batman v Superman
- Zack Snyder’s new cut of JUSTICE LEAGUE highlights admiration of Campbell