We love to see the many ways that Joseph Campbell’s work continues to influence both creative works of fiction and scholarly non-fiction. However, as a very small organization, we simply do not have the bandwidth to provide the service of reviewing books or other creative works. In short:

We do not. JCF is a small organization – despite its renown namesake and global footprint. It is a “working foundation,” meaning we earn our keep and neither solicit nor offer grants of any kind. JCF is, in fact, a virtual organization without any offices. We are kept operative mainly through the good efforts of a cadre of engaged volunteers scattered over several continents.

No – JCF publishes only works written by Joseph Campbell.

Visit the MRT map…

The path to becoming an official JCF Mythological RoundTable® (MRT) Group consists of the following 12 steps:

1. You, the prospective MRT Leader, contact us through the JCF Mythological RoundTable® Request Form.
2. The MRT Progam Coordinator will reply to you with a welcome email.
3. You will receive the MRT Leader’s Guide — providing details, resources and guidelines.
4. You reply with a commitment to launch a new MRT Group.
5. You create a JCF account and then let the MRT Program Coordinator know (they’ll give you MRT Leader access).
6. You set up new MRT group page on the JCF website.
7. You set up social media accounts (optional).
8. You secure a venue for your first MRT Group gathering.
9. You plan your first event, post it on the JCF events calendar, and then send invitations.
10. You host the event – have an awesome time!
11. Repeat.
12. Earn a charter – MRT Groups that meet regularly over the course of a year and meet all MRT standards will shed the cocoon of their “Emerging” status to become “Chartered” JCF Mythological RoundTable® Group.

We’re working on releasing the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series in eBook format over the next few years.

Check out our eSingle (short works) and eBook (long works, i.e. books) offerings.

We won’t.

The Mythos DVD series contains all of the footage in Transformations plus 2+ hours of never-before-released lectures, and presents them as Campbell intended:

• Mythos I: The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition (DVD)
  an exploration of the psychology, history and biology of myth, and an introduction to the Western mythos.
• Mythos II: The Shaping of the Eastern Tradition (DVD)
  an introduction to the great mythic traditions of South and East Asia.
• Mythos III: The Shaping of the Western Tradition (DVD)
  an exploration of the great philosophy, art and literature that have shaped the modern West.

For more information, see The Long, Strange, Night-sea Journey from Transformations to Mythos

Funny you should ask about Wings of Art…

We’re working on completing riverrun, a re-edited series based on Campbell’s Joyce lectures. Keep watching jcf.org for news!

Two answers for the price of one:

1) No, he wouldn’t have. And…

2) The Jospeh Campbell Foundation was founded in 1990 by Joseph Campbell’s wife and literary executor for the sole purpose of ensuring that Joseph Campbell’s work was avaiable in perpetuity. In order to do so, JCF has entered into arrangements with third party publishers. The money obtained from those agreements and subsequent sales has enabled us to make additional works avaialble.

Without charging for some of our intellectual property, we have no way to fulfill our mission.

Because the works you shared are under copyright (some video assets are under copyright co-owned by JCF and other parties). If we don’t assert that copyright, we may open ourselves to lawsuits from other parties. We certainly appreciate your enthusiasm, but please respect our legal right to secure protection for JCF’s intellectual property.

We do not have transcripts despite what may be said at the end of the earliest recordings we produced of Joseph Campbell’s lectures. The Foundation very quickly found itself with a problem — namely, that copies of those early lecture transcripts started showing up all over the web, despite our asking folks who requested copies that they were for their personal use only.

As a result, JCF soon found itself needing to retain the services of a third-party to attempt to take down these unauthorized postings.

The entire matter became a huge burden for JCF, for notwithstanding its famous namesake, it is in fact a relatively small organization—albeit one with a global footprint—that is kept operative through the good efforts of a cadre of volunteers scattered about the globe. Moreover, since JCF operates as a voluntarily poor organization, the burden of sending out transcripts, finding them all over the web, attempting to cause those postings to be taken down—all of this became a huge burden that impacted our ability to continue to bring forth new JC materials. And so we made the decision to stop offering transcripts.

We learned too late, however, that some of the audio lectures in circulation still contained transcript remarks at the end. When we realized that fact, we re-recorded the endings on those lectures and did our best to replace earlier versions everywhere we could.

Send an email query to our Rights and Permissions Manager (or use the form below). Please include:

• The quote(s) you wish to use.
• The source publication of each quote (Not Internet sources such as BrainyQuote, Goodreads, etc.)
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• Author
• Publisher
• Release date
• Initial print run
• Expected retail price

Please note: The JCF does not control the rights to <em>The Power of Myth</em>. Permissions must be acquired from Doubleday (text) or IPF Media (video).

Send an email query to our Rights and Permissions Manager (or use the form below).

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Actually, the eBooks we create are readable on just about every piece of mobile hardware made since the turn of the millennium — however we can’t test on every configuration, since they’re not all available to us.

For information on how to access or open your download(s), visit How to Download and Read Your JCF Ebook or How to Download and Listen to Your JCF Audio.

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