Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and...
Joseph Campbell Foundation Myth Resources
Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell
Myths are living symbols. They serve each of us individually and collectively as guides to aid us in harmonizing our interior world with the surrounding landscape we inhabit. They serve us on a personal...
Awaken to Your True Self: Why You’re Still Stuck and How to Break Through
Andrew Daniel’s Awaken to Your True Self: Why You’re Still Stuck and How to Break Through incorporates ideas of mythology and the hero’s journey for personal transformation. The book includes quotes Campbell, who Daniel...
Time Crime
THE FUTURE IS THE PAST. AND THE PAST IS UNDER SIEGE. The architecture of Time itself is threatened and only Mr. Z.’s shrewd powers of observation, keenness for cosmic lore and psi-powered courage can...
Archetypal Figures in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality
Peer-reviewed archetypal/mythic literary analysis, published by Kent State University Press. The analysis of three recurring and related literary figures—the host, the guest, and the nemesis figure in pursuit of the guest—is key to illuminating...
JCF In Conversation with poet and screenwriter Sjón about his 2021 film, “Lamb”
Audio / Resource / Video / Film
Author and JCF Associate John Bucher interviews renowned Icelandic poet and screenwriter Sjón about his new film, Lamb (2021). “Lamb (Icelandic: Dýrið, “The animal”) is a 2021 Icelandic drama film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay...
The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology
Why are the goddesses in Greek myth so often imagined in groups? That compelling question occurred to the author as she observed the seven sisters of the Pleiades constellation one night in the Black...
The Way of Myth: Stories’ Subtle Wisdom
~From the Foreword by Phil Cousineau “In The Way of Myth, the culminating book of the prolific Dennis Patrick Slattery’s career, I find an abundance of wonder and a plenitude of what the poet-astronomer Rebecca...
Tikkun: collected essays on poetry, myth, and literature
Publications: Books / Resource
Tikkun refers to the Kabbalistic mythology associated with the Sephiroth, vessels created to contain the energies emanating from the divine (En-Sof). It is also the name of a new book by Evans Lansing Smith which brings together essays...
Parzival
Publications: Books / Resource
“Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career...
The Grail Legend
“Writing in a clear and readable style, two leading women of the Jungian school of psychology present this legend as a living myth that is profoundly relevant to modern life. We encounter such universal...
The Elements of the Grail Tradition
“The stories of the Grail Tradition, with their tests, trials, and initiations, are a part of the Arthurian Tradition and lead towards the discovery of the elusive secret of what the Holy Grail truly...
Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience
“Pacifica Graduate Institute is proud to present a two-day virtual symposium centered around the screening of two films – PSYCHEDELIA: The History and Science of Mystical Experience and The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof’s Journey...
Long Now Talk: Wade Davis, Activist Anthropology
“What is the role and purpose of Anthropology today? Wade Davis looks back at the pioneering work of Franz Boas in the early 20th century that upended long-held Western assumptions on race & gender,...
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