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FEATURED WORK BY JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine

In Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, Joseph Campbell explores the symbols, themes, and functions of many goddess figures, following them through their transformations across cultures and epoch.

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Death and Renewal: A Metaphor for Approaching Metaphor

When we die to the confining urge of literalism, we are renewed in the living spaciousness of metaphor and myth.

Craig Deininger

Dec 8, 20247 min read

978 views

Campbell’s Death and Renewal

The way we pick up Campbell’s work, we express our philosophy; it demonstrates the way in which we understand the value and use of history

Norland Téllez, Ph.D.

Dec 1, 20247 min read

1,063 views

Emancipating the Goddess: Beyond the Binary

What better tool does our species have than myth to address such amorphous, sensitive, albeit confusing topics such as gender and sexuality?

Kami Hope & Matt Malcom

Nov 24, 20247 min read

1,060 views

Goddess Embodiment

I’m proposing here that we cultivate a deeper resonance when incorporating the divine feminine into our bodies, hearts, and minds.

Kristina Dryža

Nov 17, 20246 min read

1,835 views

Women/Goddesses: Guardians of the Order

The Goddess archetypes have, incredibly in the face of patriarchal power, survived persecution throughout the ages.

Lejla Panjeta

Nov 10, 20246 min read

1,118 views

Excavating the Gifts of the Goddess

Beauty is found in laying down one’s pride, power, and identity in life, to attain the wisdom of the underworld.

Stephanie Zajchowski, PhD

Nov 3, 20246 min read

1,027 views

Bliss, Sacrifice and KAOS

Service to others, or to a noble ideal or even self-sacrifice, are essential elements of bliss

Kristina Dryža

Oct 27, 20247 min read

1,640 views

The Bliss in the Balance of Sacrifice and Reward

If we want to feel good and live well, we must regularly engage in sacrifice.

Craig Deininger

Oct 20, 20247 min read

1,030 views

Letting Love Lead: Why Perceval Dropped the Reins

It belongs to everyone who looks not to some distant shore where an imagined enemy walks among the parapets of stone defenses, but with the

John Bonaduce

Oct 13, 20246 min read

1,163 views

Following Your Bliss: Down the Rabbit Hole

Aphorisms, like metaphors, can be a little slippery. In some ways, the more obvious they look, the less obvious they are.

Mark C.E. Peterson

Oct 6, 20245 min read

1,248 views

Strange Ego: The Guru and the “Marvelous” Doctor

From the time of the first myths and stories, the problem of the overinflated ego and its repercussions has been a recurring theme.

Scott Neumeister, PhD

Sep 29, 20246 min read

1,120 views

The Power Of The Mythic Image

Mythic images both hide and reveal the subterranean movement of the universal in the order of conscious thought, a movement that unleashes t

Norland Téllez, Ph.D.

Sep 22, 20246 min read

870 views

The First Storytellers: What Stories Are Telling Us?

What if story is not simply a human invention, but one we humans simply understand in a particular way?

Leigh Melander, PhD

Sep 15, 20245 min read

801 views

The Power of a Story

People the world over are saying “Yes!” to a message which continues to be shared thirty-six years after Campbell died.

Michael Lambert

Sep 8, 20245 min read

1,131 views

Homo Liar

We pride ourselves on being a wise species while often oversimplifying and trivializing the power of unobservable planes of mythology.

Lejla Panjeta

Sep 1, 20247 min read

1,385 views

A Dilettante’s Heroic Journey into Nominalism

I find myself frozen between the binaries, wondering which might bring clearer understanding.

Leigh Melander, PhD

Aug 25, 20246 min read

869 views

Never Landing: The Trap of the Dilettante

In the language of the Hero’s Journey, this is not only a failure to answer the call, but a clever way of avoiding it altogether.

Mark C.E. Peterson

Aug 18, 20246 min read

1,612 views

Art and Returning the Notion of Soul to Psyche

A soulful artist is less concerned with conceptual explanations or solutions to problems than with heeding the drive to explore the unknown.

Craig Deininger

Aug 11, 20247 min read

1,075 views

Art, Myth, Archetype and Taylor Swift

Through Swift and other artists, we witness how these ancient and universal stories can indeed be reawakened through the power of creativity

Kristina Dryža

Aug 4, 20247 min read

4,947 views

De Profundis Clamavi Ad Te: Transforming Dark Emotions into Art

If we are able to encounter the terror of our own mortality the same way we encounter “proper art” that terrifies, we elicit the sublime epi

Bradley Olson, PhD

Jul 28, 20247 min read

927 views