The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We...
Joseph Campbell Foundation Myth Resources
Zen in the Art of Archery
A classic work on Eastern philosophy, Zen in the Art of Archery is a charming and deeply illuminating story of one man’s experience with Zen. Eugen Herrigel, a German professor of Philosophy in Tokyo, took up...
Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion
Noel presents “a compelling analysis of one of this century’s great teachers” (Spiritual Studies Center Book News)–“a welcome academic response to the tremendous public appeal of Campbell’s conversations with Bill Moyers” ( Harvest: Journal...
African Folktales and Sculpture
A representative collection of eighty-one myths and folktales chosen from the oral tradition of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara. Originally published in 1964.
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man
In 1955 on a visit to South Africa, Robert Ardrey became aware of the growing evidence that man had evolved on the African continent from carnivorous, predatory stock, who had also, long before man,...
The Book of Tea
An elegant and intellectual work, “The Book of Tea” was written in 1906 by Okakura Kakuzo, a brilliant Japanese man with an early education in English. Through his intimate knowledge of Japanese aesthetics and...
Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya
This book shows the myths of the contemporary Maya of Guatemala in tales of tricksters, lords of the underworld, warriors, kings, Spanish invaders and missionaries, and even anthropologists.
The Dance of Shiva
“Written in the early twentieth century, The Dance of Shiva was a remarkable book for its time. It discussed in depth the unique nature of the Indian ethos, understood by so few in the...
Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot / The Great Digest / The Analects
The study of Chinese culture was a dominant concern in Ezra Pound’s life and work. His great Canto XIII is about Kung (Confucius), Cantos LII-LXI deal with Chinese history, and in the later Cantos...
Moses and Monotheism
This volume contains Freud’s speculations on various aspects of religion, on the basis of which he explains certain characteristics of Jewish people in their relations with Christians. From an intensive study of the Moses...
Choreographer/JCF Co-Founder Jean Erdman Passes at 104
The Joseph Campbell Foundation is deeply saddened to announce that its co-founder, award-winning dancer and choreographer, wife of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, and extraordinary contributor to twentieth-century dance, passed away in Honolulu, Hawaii, on...
Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story Through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell
Living myths…are not to be judged as true or false, but as effective or ineffective, maturative or pathogenic. —Joseph Campbell, Flight of the Wild Gander Myths are living symbols. They serve each of us...
Sea, Spirit, Sanctuary: Nantucket and Herman Melville’s Epic, Moby-Dick, as Spiritual Quest
In the tradition of C.G. Jung and mythologist Joseph Campbell, we will sojourn to the “far off isle” of Nantucket, 30 miles into the wild North Atlantic Sea. During this time together, we will...
The Way of Suffering
Like the Egyptian goddess Inanna, we have descended into the underworld. Like Inanna, who is stripped of her clothing as she passes through each of the seven gates of the underworld, we have had...
Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians
Books for adults / Publications: Books
“We are dealing here with a living literature,” wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942 by the American Folk-Lore Society, this is...
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