Joseph Campbell
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The complete soundtrack from the phenomenally popular PBS series whose message about myth, ritual, and spiritual potentialities exhilarated millions of people.Contents:Program 1: The Hero's AdventureProgram 2: The Message of the MythProgram 3: The First StorytellersProgram 4: Sacrifice and BlissProgram 5: Love and the GoddessProgram 6: Masks of Eternity
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In these pages, the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life.
This second volume of Campbell's essays (following The Flight of the Wild Gander) brings together his uncollected writings from 1959 to 1987. Written at the height...
17) Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers - Season 1: EPISODE 3: The First Storytellers
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Joseph Campbell explains how ancient myths bring humans to understand and accept birth, growth and death. Campbell discusses the importance of accepting death as rebirth as in the myth of the buffalo and the story of Christ, the rite of passage in primitive societies, the role of mystical Shamans, and the decline of ritual in today's society.
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Bill Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell compare creation myths from the Bible and elsewhere. Campbell compares the creation story in Genesis with creation stories from around the world. Because the world changes, religion has to be transformed and new mythologies created. People today are stuck with myths that don't fit their needs.
19) Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers - Season 1: EPISODE 1: The Hero's Adventure
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Long before medieval knights charged off to slay dragons, tales of heroic adventures were an integral part of all world cultures. Joseph Campbell challenges everyone to see the presence of a heroic journey in his or her life.
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Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the common experience of God across cultures. Campbell provides challenging insights into the concepts of God, religion and eternity, as revealed in Christian teachings and the beliefs of Buddhists, Navajo Indians, Schopenhauer, Jung and others.