Jul 11
Is the root of all fear the fear of death? Are fears a teaching tool where the ultimate aim is to confront and move beyond fear? Is fear an essential driving component of creativity? Is fear a human quality that makes the living of life even more of a precious experience? This conversation is in full swing right now. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the nature of fear.
Original post by Joseph Campbell Foundation
Few people in the United States have heard of Heinrich Zimmer — and fewer still would know who he was had Heinrich Zimmer and Joseph Campbell never met. It’s just as likely that Campbell’s life would have followed a far different trajectory, absent this relationship. Zimmer exerted a profound and undeniable influence on the direction of Campbell’s career, honing Joseph’s realization of his own passion for comparative mythology. References to Zimmer abound throughout Campbell’s books and lectures – including favorite, oft-told tales such as “The Humbling of Indra” or the “Tiger Among the Goats.” Indeed, Heinrich Zimmer was for Campbell one of those doors we come across that open, “where you would not have thought there would be doors,” when we follow our bliss…
Original post by Joseph Campbell Foundation
In our on-line, Conversations of a Higher Order, threaded discussion forums, over 23,600 messages have been posted. In this featured conversation, Ritske from Edinburgh, UK, who is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh, presents the following for discussion: “I am interested–puzzled in fact–by Campbell’s assertion that myth is an expression of the organs in conflict with each other, or what he later called ‘the Wisdom Body…”
Original post by Joseph Campbell Foundation
This week, we reveal the answer to a question that many of you may have asked yourselves over the months that we have been posting the Practical Campbell column: Who the heck is Bodhi_Bliss? …Which leads us to the subject of Stephen’s latest contribution to the Practical Campbell column, “Benevolent Scoundrels.”
Original post by Joseph Campbell Foundation
In the latest addition to our Practical Campbell series , Bhodi_Bliss, our key contributor to this on-line periodical, explores the blurred lines between history and myth, parallelism, converging geographies and diffusion.
Original post by Joseph Campbell Foundation
There is a magnificent essay by Schopenhauer in which he asks, how is it that a human being can so participate in the peril or pain of another that without thought, spontaneously, he sacrifices his own life to the other? How can it happen that what we normally think of as the first law of nature and self-preservation is suddenly dissolved? Read more
It’s hard not to think of Joseph Campbell while watching the first film installment of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s renowned fantasy trilogy, which has remained No. 1 at the box office since its opening in December. Underneath the movie’s sweeping spectacle and captivating characters, it’s your basic hero’s story.
After a short prologue establishing the peril Tolkien’s imaginary world, Middle Earth, faces as a result of the unearthing of the Dark Lord’s ring of power, the wizard Gandalf visits old friends at a village of hobbits, a diminutive home-loving race. Events take place quickly, and soon the young hobbit with hairy feet, Frodo Baggins, is charged with an overwhelming task: to journey to an evil land and cast the ring back into the fire of its origin.
One of the incidents that launched Joseph Campbell down the path of his life’s work was wandering into Shakespeare & Co. in Paris and picking up James Joyce’s newly published Ulysses. Now, just in time for the dual centennials of Campbell’s birth (March 26, 1904) and Bloomsday (June 16, 1904–the day in which most of Ulysses takes place), New World Library has reissued Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce, a wonderful examination of Joyce’s novels through Campbell’s mythic lens. In our downloadable media section, we have posted the “Introduction” from Mythic Worlds, which begins to look at Joyce’s work from mythological and psychological points of view.
Download the Introduction now and enjoy reading insights regarding one of the 20′th century’s greatest writers by one of its most esteemed teachers.
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