In Professor Joe’s words…
“The whole problem of mythology is how to contact immortal forces with our mortal forms. What is mortal will be transformed.” Joseph Campbell, L130 “Cosmogonic and Hero Cycles” 11/30/65, Sarah Lawrence
Read MoreProfessor Joe on becoming transparent to transcendence
“There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth”. Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bli
Read MoreOn myth and finding your immovable center…
“Life throws up around us these temptations, these distractions, and the problem is to find the immovable center within. Then you can survive anything. Myth will help you do that. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go out on picket lines about at0omic research. Go ahead
Read MoreCampbell on what does myth does for you
“What myth does for you is to point beyond the phenomenal field toward the transcendent. A mythic figure is like a compass with one leg in the field of time and the other in the eternal. The image of god may look like a human or animal form, but its reference is transcendent to
Read MoreJoseph Campbell on eternity
“Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board an
Read MoreJCF Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS
New year, new Campbell book to dive into at our Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS! The book is The Mythic Dimension and contains a selection of essays that Campbell wrote between 1959 and 1987. The two main topics in this volume are mythology and history and mythology and the art
Read MoreJCF Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS
New year, new Campbell book to dive into at our Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS! The book is The Mythic Dimension and contains a selection of essays that Campbell wrote between 1959 and 1987. The two main topics in this volume are mythology and history and mythology and the art
Read MoreTreasures in the Archives – The Mythic Bear
This amazing sculpture comes from Campbell’s Historical Atlas of World Mythology: Mythologies of the Great Hunt of the Celtic bear-goddess Artio. This statue shows the goddess feeding a she-bear and interestingly enough there is a slit in the box pedestal wherein coin offerings could
Read MoreJoseph Campbell on the myths we need today
“We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.” Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
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