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	Joseph Campbell
		Campbell is considered by some to be one of the most famous autodidacts, or 'self-educators', and is sometimes seen as a poster child for this way of learning.
		Joseph Campbell believed all the religions of the world, all the rituals and deities, to be “masks” of the same transcendent truth which is “unknowable.” He claims Christianity and Buddhism, whether the object is 'Buddha-consciousness' or 'Christ-consciousness,' to be an elevated awareness above “pairs of opposites,” such as right and wrong.
		Campbell intended it to mean that one should follow the natural order and cycles of life, though, like Aleister Crowley's “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,” it has been misunderstood by critics as a call to craven libertinism.
	www.thaiexotictreasures.com /joseph_campbell.html (2089 words)

	Joseph Campbell
		Joseph Campbell was born in New York City on July 25, 1904.
		Campbell argued that world's mythologies, ritual practices, folk traditions, and major religions share certain symbolic themes, motifs, and patterns of behavior.
		Campbell died at age of eighty-three on October 31, 1987, at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii, after a brief illness.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/campbell_joseph.html (532 words)

	Joseph Campbell's Mythic Journey
		At every turn, Campbell met the interesting thinkers of the time - many of whom became friends, from the philosopher Krishnamurti to Adelle Davis, who was Campbell's first serious romantic interest long before her career as a nutritionist.
		Campbell gently suggested that I say my thanks to the animals and plants that had given their lives so that my life would continue.
		Campbell felt that it was the one college that was teaching the parallels between psychology and mythology in the spirit of Campbell's pioneering work.
	www.folkstory.com /campbell/campbell.html (2183 words)

	The Romantic Appeal of Joseph Campbell
		Campbell’s romantic view of myth is the opposite of a rationalist view, one epitomized by the Victorian anthropologists Edward Tylor and James Frazer.
		Campbell, equating a literal interpretation with a historical one, assumes that to read the Oedipus myth literally is to believe that there was once a king named Oedipus.
		Campbell’s equation of institutionalization with degeneration and of individualism with purity is adolescent.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=766 (2895 words)

	Joseph Campbell
		Joseph Campbell was born in New York City, the son of Charles and Josephine Campbell.
		The idea inspired Campbell in his unending study of such authors Thomas Mann and James Joyce, whose work he regarded as a kind of guide for his own interpretation of mythological material.
		Campbell juxtaposed myths from Native Americans, ancient Greeks, Hindus, Buddhists, Mayans, Norse and Arthurian legends, and the Bible to elucidate the hero's path of adventure through rites of passage to final transfiguration.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /campb.htm (1185 words)

	Joseph Campbell - Mythic Reflections
		Joseph: Because the imagery that has to be used in order to tell what can't be told, symbolic imagery, is then understood or interpreted not symbolically but factually, empirically.
		Joseph: I'm calling a symbol a sign that points past itself to a ground of meaning and being that is one with the consciousness of the beholder.
		Joseph: A ritual is the enactment of a myth.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC12/Campbell.htm (3317 words)

	Joseph Campbell - Audio Books on CD and MP3, DVD Video (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Late in his life, Joseph Campbell came to the attention of a whole new generation when George Lucas cited "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" as one of the primary influences on the "Star Wars Trilogy".
		Campbell speaks of the 12th century troubadors who exalted the individual experience of men and women over the authority and traditions of church and state, and of the image of woman as goddess, virgin and mother earth.
		Campbell and Moyers talk about our relationship to the first stories and the people who told them, the rite of passage in primitive societies, and the role of the mystical shamans; of the animal envoys of the unseen power, who served to teach and guide mankind in primeval time.
	www.learnoutloud.com /Resources/Authors-and-Narrators/Joseph-Campbell/2336 (1106 words)

	Joseph Campbell at AllExperts
		Joseph Campbell was born and raised in New York City in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family.
		Joseph Campbell believed all the religions of the world, all the rituals and deities, to be "masks" of the same transcendent truth which is "unknowable." He claims Christianity and Buddhism, whether the object is 'buddha-consciousness' or 'Christ-consciousness,' to be an elevated awareness above "pairs of opposites," such as right and wrong.
		Campbell's ideas regarding myth and its relationship to the human psyche are heavily dependent on the work of Carl Jung, whose studies of human psychology, as previously mentioned, heavily influenced Campbell.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/joseph_campbell.htm (3492 words)

	Pacifica Graduate Institute \| Joseph Campbell
		Campbell, whose personal library is housed at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, was a true rarity: an academic who connected with the public, and a rigorous scholar who was comfortable exploring the realm of mysticism.
		Campbell did not restrict the term "hero" to warrior or lifesaver; he used it to describe anyone who had the courage to follow his or her calling, obtain the necessary knowledge and skills, and then use that wisdom and experience for the benefit of his or her people.
		Campbell's own hero's journey consisted of a two-part quest: to compare, contrast and examine the similarities in the myths of many cultures; and to explain to the public how myths function and why they are important.
	www.pacifica.edu /campbell/campbell04_news.html (2610 words)

	Joseph Campbell Salon
		Joseph Campbell was so fascinated by the notion that all the myths, spiritual systems and organized religions were the same he hoped one day all the earth would unite under one.
		But to Campbell this wouldn’t matter as he saw all as of equal, with no preference at least in regard to which one is more 'right' than the other.
		Campbell recognized societies must have heroes to incarnate the society’s 'values.' Again this seems paradoxical, as he agreed with the relativistic notion that there is no such thing as universal 'values,' but the fact that a society requires accepted 'values' does not make them universal, or objectively true.
	home.comcast.net /~docterspond/Lecture/Campbell.html (640 words)

	Joseph Campbell Biography and Summary
		A college teacher of literature, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an editor and popularizer of comparative mythology.
		Joseph Campbell was perhaps the best-known mythologist of the twentieth century.
		Joseph Campbell(March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in t...
	www.bookrags.com /Joseph_Campbell (250 words)

	Joseph Campbell: biography
		Author, Joseph Campbell, was the eldest of two children born to Charles Campbell, a merchant, and Josephine Lynch.
		Joseph Campbell was the eldest of two children born to Charles Campbell, a merchant, and Josephine Lynch.
		Campbell was educated at Columbia University where he was a member of the track team and played the saxophone in jazz bands.
	nvnv.essortment.com /josephcampbell_myr.htm (543 words)

	Joseph Campbell's archetypal Hero
		Campbell's cross-cultural studies of the myths of ancient peoples brought him to the conclusion that these diverse stories were all telling the same small number of myths but in slightly different language.
		Campbell recounts in his book dozens and dozens of ancient hero myths from unrelated cultures around the world to come up with a common denominator for a plot line, the archetypal hero story.
		Campbell today is still seen on his video-taped television interview series in which the kindly, wise retired professor from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, brings to life the ancient stories with a twinkle in his eye.
	www.karmastrology.com /rek_hero.shtml (578 words)

	Joseph Campbell Foundation - Welcome to the Joseph Campbell Foundation Website!
		JCF Associates are inspired by the works of Joseph Campbell and are interested in exploring mythic themes in everyday life.
		Joseph Campbell's focus was not just on cultures long dead, but on living myth as it manifests in modern culture and influences society.
		One of the best-known and most influential of Campbell's works, The Hero with a Thousand Faces traces the story of the hero's journey and transformation as it appears in virtually all of of the world's mythologies.
	www.jcf.org /index2.php (441 words)

	The Spirit of Things: 21 March 2004 - The Myth of Joseph Campbell
		And Joseph very much validated actually the observations of Carl Jung that myths are really sort of primordial universal principles, that kind of are supra-ordinated to our everyday life, and that they sort of form and inform what’s happening in our psyches individually, and also what’s happening collectively in the world.
		Joseph was always emphasising the fact that all the major cultures had some kind of underlying myth that they were living by, unbeknownst to its members; it’s usually seen by the later generations.
		Joseph Campbell: That we are so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture, that is associated with being alive is what it’s all about.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/spirit/stories/s1066960.htm (5385 words)

	Joseph Campbell, Mythologist
		Joseph Campbell was a prolific American author and editor whose works on comparative mythology examined the universal functions of mythology in various human cultures and examined the mythic figure in a wide range of literatures.
		In this study of the "myth of the hero," Campbell asserted that there is a single pattern of heroic journey and that all cultures share this essential pattern in their various heroic myths.
		Presenting the Joseph Campbell Festival in New Hampshire to further the preservation of myth, folklore, and storytelling, with news and details.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/TheSeer/Campbell.html (543 words)

	Joseph Campbell - Wikinfo
		Campbell's work in mythology sought to bridge the seemingly disparate stances of Jung and Freud, and their pivotal debate over the collective unconscious which became an embodiment of the conflicts between Western and Eastern worlds of belief.
		Campbell was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 until 1972.
		Campbell collaborated with Bill Moyers on the PBS series The Power of Myth, which was first broadcast in 1988, the year after Campbell's death in Honolulu.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Joseph_Campbell (973 words)

	Spirit Plants Radio - Joseph Campbell
		Campbell was born and raised in New York City in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family.
		In this talk, Joseph Campbell humbly argues that Buddhist doctrine is, in many ways, the supreme expression of religious techique; for, unlike Christianity, Buddhism is a psychological system.
		Campbell then surveys the Buddha's life, describing the crisis that led to his illumination under the Bo tree.
	www.spfradio.yage.net /radio/Joseph_Campbell.htm (425 words)

	Joseph Campbell Links
		Campbell’s literary career began in earnest with the editing of the posthumous papers of indologist Heinrich Zimmer, whom Campbell befriended a couple years prior to Zimmer’s passing.
		In it, Campbell posits a Monomyth (a term borrowed from Joyce), a pattern that it common to the myths of every culture, and argues that the hero’s journey is metaphor for both the individual and for culture.
		The Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas Library, located on the campus, are part of the Center for Study of Depth Psycholgy, also dedicated to the works of James Hillman.
	www.carnaval.com /campbell/index.htm (1581 words)

	Joseph Campbell@Everything2.com
		The search for spiritual and symbolic significance was a recurrent theme within Campbell's works and he scrutinized the essence of myths and religion in his lifelong quest; his was a familiar and intimate pursuit, shared by countless readers and students.
		Joseph Campbell, born in 1904 in New York City, was first exposed to mythology when his father took him, and his younger brother, to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Madison Square Garden in 1910.
		Campbell worked extensively with mythology over the years, and is considered by some people to be the world's best scholar in comparative mythology.
	everything2.org /index.pl?node_id=52895 (1320 words)

	Joseph Campbell / The Power of Myth
		Enjoy the wisdom, dynamic storytelling, and insights of the late Joseph Campbell.
		Newsweek magazine said “Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.”
		HighBridge is pleased to offer both a lecture series from Campbell and the audio edition of his landmark work with Bill Moyers: The Power of Myth.
	www.highbridgeaudio.com /josephcampbell.html (166 words)

	Amazon.com: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books): Books: Joseph Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Campbell's unique perspectives examine the world's complex and interwoven mythology, folklore and religion, providing an understanding of the essence and genesis of humanness.
		Campbell is unlike other writers on myth; he looks not at an entire myth but at its parts.
		Campbell was not a dispassionate academic--this was his gospel, and he lived by it.
	www.amazon.com /Hero-Thousand-Faces-Mythos-Books/dp/0691017840 (1795 words)

	CSP - 'The Hero's Journey' by Joseph Campbell
		If the process deepens further they start experiencing elements of the birth process, confronting death, powerful death-reversing sequences of the kind Joseph mentioned, that are enacted in certain aboriginal rites of passage.
		CAMPBELL: People who have taken some of the psychedelic mushrooms that were used in Middle America have told me that they begin to have images that resemble those of the Aztec gods.
		CAMPBELL: But I was speaking about someone who's rather serious about this, Albert Hofmann, the man who synthesized LSD, and who was very much interested in this matter.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/heros_journey.html (1220 words)

	Star Wars Origins - Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Campbell's contribution was to take this idea of archetypes and use it to map out the common underlying structure behind religion and myth.
		Frazer was an enormous influence on Joseph Campbell, Ursula Le Guin and Frank Herbert.
		Campbell's idea that woman represents divine impurity was probably influenced by his orthodox Catholic upbringing, which shifts the responsibility for Adam's fall to Eve.
	www.spookybug.com /origins/myth.html (1331 words)

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