Tag Archive | "Mythology"

Practical Campbell: The Myth of Zimmer and Campbell

Monday, June 13, 2005

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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 [...]

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Sarcasm and Power Outages

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

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Researchers today announced that they’ve identified the area of the brain responsible for sarcasm. In a related story, Congress is applauded for it’s funding of very important scientific research. Ha! So, what does this have to do with anything? I’m in Connecticut this week staying at one of the hotels in the Hartford area. Tonight [...]

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Featured Conversation: Campbell and Jung

Monday, May 23, 2005

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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 [...]

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A Mystery Solved and the “Trickster” Deconstructed

Monday, April 25, 2005

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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 [...]

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The Tuatha da Menehuna?

Monday, March 7, 2005

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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

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Jung, Freud and All That Jazz

Monday, February 14, 2005

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In our conversation featured in this week’s update, JCF Associate, Robert G., asks “Where did Jung’s patients go?”…What follows is a truly illuminating discussion regarding the influence of the issues of that time on the continued relevance of both Jung’s and Freud’s work. The thread that follows explores these issues at much deeper levles [...]

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A Metaphysical Realization

Thursday, September 2, 2004

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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 [...]

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The Hero Is Us

Thursday, April 22, 2004

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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 [...]

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Joseph Campbell: Psychological or Metaphysical

Saturday, March 22, 2003

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This is a very interesting topic and I find myself wondering exactly where Campbell’s ultimate passions were. The first image that is called to mind is Campbell’s rather amazing recounting of a story he read in a Hawaiian newspaper (source: Power of Myth). It was about a guy on a bridge about to commit suicide. [...]

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