Star Wars: The Magic of Myth Exhibit
The “Star Wars: The Magic of Myth” exhibition closed at the National Air and Space Museum on January 31, 1999. This online exhibition will remain available for an indefinite period of time. For over...
Joseph Campbell Foundation Myth Resources
Cannery Row
Steinbeck was close friends with Campbell, and offered a mythological yin to Campbell’s factual yang. Cannery Row in particular studies human relationships reminiscent of the hero with a thousand faces, as well as some...
The Princess Bride
It’s not just a kids movie. It has so many elements that Campbell points to in the archetypal hero’s journey. Plus, it’s a lot of fun.
The 13th Warrior
The 13th Warrior, a film starring Antonio Bandares, has gotten many poor reviews. However, I feel that it is an excellent film for anyone to watch after reading Joseph Campbell’s, The Hero With A...
Internet Classics Archive
Over 440 works of classical literature, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation and some in the original Greek, are available for free at this online archive created by the...
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
A fabulously eclectic collection of online texts edited and translated by Univ. of Pittsburgh scholar, D. L. Ashliman. Worth a look!
The Alchemy Web Site
Over 150 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 2400 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 2500 images, over 240 complete alchemical texts,...
Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand
A scholarly research, beautifully written, into a band of young monks fifty years ago who resolved to go for enlightenment in the way the Buddha intended. Perfectly illustrates Campbell’s point about true mystics being...
The Moon Under Her Feet
This book was written by an anthropology professor about the Passion story from the perspective of Mary Magdalen … as a Priestess in the temple of Astarte. It is AMAZING. And it was dedicated...
OPUS Archives
Housing the collection of Joseph Campbell, the mission of OPUS Archives and Research Center is to preserve, develop and extend to the world the archival collections and libraries of eminent scholars in the fields...