Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as other people's religion. But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss.
In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic best-selling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from...

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.
As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features...

Intended more for the general reader than the scholar, this book asks how we can live by myths today, and explores the old cohesive role of myths in bygone ages.'

Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics.
While Campbell s work reached wide and deep as he covered the world s great mythological traditions, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, exploring the figures, functions, symbols, and themes of the feminine divine, following them...

Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell and some of the people he inspired, including poet Robert Bly, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, filmmaker David Kennard, Doors drummer John Densmore, psychiatric pioneer Stanislov Grof, Nobel laureate Roger Guillemen, and others. Campbell reflects on subjects ranging from the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist, and the need for ritual to the ordeals of love and romance. With poetry...

Klasická Campbellova práce uvádí příklady mytických příběhů, ukazuje na nich pravdy skryté za náboženskými a mytologickými postavami a nechává z nich vyplynout obecně platné významy. Posláním hrdiny je vydat se na cestu a překonávat překážky. Hrdinovo dobrodružství má mnoho podob, ale jeho aspekty jsou neměnné: hrdinovi se dostává nadpřirozené pomoci, překonává strasti a bolestně se navrací do světa, kde musí lidem zvěstovat, co viděl. Tyto iniciační cesty nacházíme v mýtech, pověstech a pohádkách, jež mohou lidem posloužit jako...