September eNewsletter ~ Fellowship Award Announcement!
Our September 2012 eNewsletter is now available. Click to here to read.
Read MoreOld Books & Gurus: Richard Buchen Presenting on the Joseph Campbell Library
The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable of Ojai is very pleased to present Richard Buchen, Curator of Joseph Campbell’s book collection and Special Collections Librarian at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Having tended Joseph Campbell’s personal works for 16 years, we are
Read MoreDr. Joe: Be Not Afraid of Ogres!
Prince Five Weapons Faces an Ogre: “Ogre, why should I be afraid? for in one life one death is absolutely certain. What’s more, I have in my belly a thunderbolt for weapon. If you eat me, you will not be able to digest that weapon. It will tear your insides into tatters a
Read MoreJoseph Campbell on Māyā, an Ever-Rippling Pond
“Māyā is the world of that rippling pond we spoke of, the fractured, sparkling image of reality that is no reality but only its broken surface…. It is when the inner light—the ultimate light that is no light, that is—Brahman-ātman—comes into manifestation that this māyā veil is
Read MoreRobert Walter, JCF President at Esalen!
This year’s Mythological ToolBox® Playshop, “Unsung Stories & Evocative Songs,” runs from Sunday evening, March 25 through Friday afternoon, March 30. If you are willing to re-vision yourself, then join this improvisational ritual of rebirth.Bob Walter will be jo
Read MoreJoseph Campbell RoundTable® at OPUS
“Myth comes from the same zone as dream… from the great biological ground, whatever it may be. They are energies and they are matters of consciousness.” — Joseph Campbell Join OPUS on Thursday, December 8th, 6:00 to 8:00 PM, for a viewing of Mythos II, “T
Read MoreMythos III Released!
The Joseph Campbell Foundation has just released Mythos III! In this, the third of the Mythos series, five of Campbell’s lectures are brought together in a confluence representing, in Campbell’s words, “something that is typical to Europe and nowhere else, and that i
Read MoreCampbell & Gimbutas Library Catalogs Now Accessible Online
We are happy to announce that through the care and consideration of Alain Dussert, Pacifica’s Director of Library Services, and Richard Buchen, Special Collections Librarian, the Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas libraries can now be accessed online. It’s now easier than
Read MoreOPUS won a grant!
Opus Archives and Research Center Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Opus, located on the campuses of Pacifica Graduate Institute, has been able to transfer the
Read MoreJoe within his “mansion of dance”
“I had my first rock and roll experience at a performance of the Grateful Dead…. Rock music had always seemed a bore to me, but I can tell you, at that concert, I found eight thousand people standing in mild rapture for five hours. The place was just a mansion of dance. And I th
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