Finding the Gold Within
In Finding the Gold Within, filmmaker Karina Epperlein follows six young men as they enter their first year of college. Each has personal circumstances to overcome as he works to escape the straitjacket of...
Joseph Campbell Foundation Myth Resources
Practical Campbell Essay: Spirit Wind
In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer follows a single mythic image, letting it take him wherever the wind blows. Air, Wind, and Breath are subtle expressions of a universal archetype common not just...
Practical Campbell Essay: Mysteries Sacred & Profane
Magick potions are the stuff of myth and faery tale – but might they be more than metaphor? In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer ponders the role sacred plants have played in religious...
Practical Campbell Essay: This Flower of Creation – Joseph Campbell’s Modern Mind
In this Practical Campbell essay, guest columnist Dixie Haas discusses the tension between “the old soul and the new universe,” and explores how Joseph Campbell reconciles this dichotomy in the deeper harmony found between...
Practical Campbell Essay: The Mythologist & the Muses
In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer examines the role of the arts in Joseph Campbell’s life and work, along the way touching on the roots of creativity. When reading Joseph Campbell, many people...
Practical Campbell Essay: Here Be Dragons
On Old World maps ancient cartographers marked unknown waters with the sign of the dragon – but do these dragons denote danger, or opportunity? In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer pursues dragon and...
Practical Campbell Essay: Original Campbell
In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer surfs through several subjects original to Joseph Campbell, and invites readers’ comments on what they find unique in Campbell’s work I’ve been on the road most of...
Practical Campbell Essay: The King & “I”
In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer tackles the archaic practice of human sacrifice, focusing on the role ritual regicide may have played in the evolution of the self-aware ego, and the symbolic significance...
Practical Campbell Essay: “The times, they are a’changin'”
In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer explores Joseph Campbell’s thoughts on where humanity is headed, and the power of mythic images to shape our future. In particular, Stephen explores the highly influential, controversial...
Practical Campbell Essay: The Mythology of Archetypes
In this Practical Campbell essay, Stephen Gerringer (bodhi_bliss) ponders the presence of archetypes in myth, and what role these patterns might play in our own lives. The concept of the archetype is central to...
