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
Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata
This video recording of Peter Brook’s stage epic is stunning both in its sweep and its theatrical simplicity. Taking an epic poem–the heart of the Hindu tradition, one chapter of which is the Bhagavad...
Classical Mythology
Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Eighth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available in one volume. Featuring the authors’ clear and extensive translations of original sources,...
Encyclopedia Mythica
An excellent free resource. Easy to navigate, well researched, with thousands of articles covering a substantial number of the deities, heroes, creatures, and other characters from all the ancient mythologies and major world religions....
Time Enough For Love
Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein’s longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with...
The Hero: Manhood and Power
Draws a distinction between hero and savior. Traces the concept of the hero from pre-history to modern day.
Mythography online
Not as extensive a database as Encyclopedia Mythica, but has three excellent add-ons: bibliography, lexicon and forum. Check it out.
The Passion of Isis and Osiris: A Gateway to Transcendent Love
Well-known psychologist and author Houston begins this highly adventurous book with a poetic retelling of the Egyptian myth of nature goddess Isis and her brother and husband, Osiris, the legendary ruler and god of...
Jim Henson’s The Storyteller
This really needs to be on the list! A collection of folk tales and Greek Myths presented in storyteller format as only Jim Henson was capapble of doing. Truly his highest moment as an...
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts....
Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
From: Victoria Earll I was delighted to see that “The Jesus Mysteries” and “Jesus and the Lost Goddess” were on the resources list. The authors, Freke and Gandy, now have a third book...
The Archetypal Imagination
We live in a world devoid of transcendent meaning, and in that abyss we desperately seek a purpose for & the foundations of Life. Many embrace a rigid fundamentalist dogma, whether religious or ideological;...
Bulfinch’s Mythology
The complete text of the classic collection by Thomas Bullfinch.
Mythweb
A site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology. Includes the Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology, a very elegant, simple format for looking up all the basic names, places, topics and...
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