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03-28-2005, 08:17 PM
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"...a mythology is a control system, on the one hand framing its community to accord with an intuited order of nature and, on the other hand, by means of its symbolic pedagogic rites, conducting individuals through the ineluctable psychophysiological stages of transformation of a human lifetime - birth, childhood and adolescence, age, old age, and the release of death - in unbroken accord simultaneously with the requirements of this world and the rapture of participation in a manner of being beyond time."
- Joseph Campbell
Biography
b. March 26, 1904, New York, N.Y., U.S
d. Oct. 31, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii
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. Reading American Indian folklore as a child, Campbell later revived his interest in the subject while working on his M.A. in English literature. Discovering that many themes in Arthurian legend resembled the basic motifs in American Indian folklore, he pursued the problem of mythological archetypes after joining the faculty of literature at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. In his essay "The Hero," in Where the Two Came to Their Father (1969), he compared the concept of the hero in American Indian mythology with that in the mythology of other peoples. The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949) is another work examining the archetype of the hero. Campbell's major work is a vast study of world mythology, The Masks of God, 4 vol. (1959-67). Other books by Campbell include Flight of the Wild Gander (1969), a collection of his essays; Myths To Live By (1972); The Mythic Image (1975; with M.J. Abadie); and The Way of the Animal Powers, vol. 1 (1983), a historical atlas of world mythology. He was also the editor of Myths, Dreams, and Religion (1971).
from encyclopedia britannica
Campbell, Joseph (author) (1904-1987), American writer, editor, and teacher, known for his writings on myths. Born in New York City, Campbell was educated at Columbia University. He specialized in medieval literature and, after earning a master's degree, continued his studies at the universities of Paris and Munich. While abroad he was influenced by the art of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and the novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann. These encounters led to Campbell's theory that all myths and epics are linked in that they are cultural manifestations of the universal need of the human psyche to explain social, cosmological, and spiritual realities.
Campbell returned to New York in 1929 and joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught comparative literature from 1934 to 1972. He also edited works by the German scholar Heinrich Zimmerman on Indian art, myths, and philosophy. In 1944, with Henry Morton Robinson, Campbell published A Skeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake. His first original work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), became a classic. 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. In his book he also outlined the basic conditions, stages, and results of the archetypal hero's journey. Campbell's other works include the four-volume Masks of God (1959-1967), The Flight of the Wild Gander (1969), and The Mythic Image (1974). In the mid-1980s a popular television interview series with the American journalist Bill Moyers introduced Campbell's views to millions of people.
http://www.spiritwalk.org/campbell.htm
Joseph Campbell Foundation:
http://www.jcf.org/
Books, CD's, and Video's Available Here:
http://www.mythosandlogos.com/Campbell.html
The Joseph Campbell & Marija Gimbutas Library:
http://www.pacifica.edu/cglibrary/index.html
Spiritwalk Mythology Page:
http://www.spiritwalk.org/mythology.htm
The Center for Story and Symbol:
http://www.rain.org/~young/
"...a mythology is a control system, on the one hand framing its community to accord with an intuited order of nature and, on the other hand, by means of its symbolic pedagogic rites, conducting individuals through the ineluctable psychophysiological stages of transformation of a human lifetime - birth, childhood and adolescence, age, old age, and the release of death - in unbroken accord simultaneously with the requirements of this world and the rapture of participation in a manner of being beyond time."
- Joseph Campbell
Biography
b. March 26, 1904, New York, N.Y., U.S
d. Oct. 31, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii
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. Reading American Indian folklore as a child, Campbell later revived his interest in the subject while working on his M.A. in English literature. Discovering that many themes in Arthurian legend resembled the basic motifs in American Indian folklore, he pursued the problem of mythological archetypes after joining the faculty of literature at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. In his essay "The Hero," in Where the Two Came to Their Father (1969), he compared the concept of the hero in American Indian mythology with that in the mythology of other peoples. The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949) is another work examining the archetype of the hero. Campbell's major work is a vast study of world mythology, The Masks of God, 4 vol. (1959-67). Other books by Campbell include Flight of the Wild Gander (1969), a collection of his essays; Myths To Live By (1972); The Mythic Image (1975; with M.J. Abadie); and The Way of the Animal Powers, vol. 1 (1983), a historical atlas of world mythology. He was also the editor of Myths, Dreams, and Religion (1971).
from encyclopedia britannica
Campbell, Joseph (author) (1904-1987), American writer, editor, and teacher, known for his writings on myths. Born in New York City, Campbell was educated at Columbia University. He specialized in medieval literature and, after earning a master's degree, continued his studies at the universities of Paris and Munich. While abroad he was influenced by the art of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and the novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann. These encounters led to Campbell's theory that all myths and epics are linked in that they are cultural manifestations of the universal need of the human psyche to explain social, cosmological, and spiritual realities.
Campbell returned to New York in 1929 and joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught comparative literature from 1934 to 1972. He also edited works by the German scholar Heinrich Zimmerman on Indian art, myths, and philosophy. In 1944, with Henry Morton Robinson, Campbell published A Skeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake. His first original work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), became a classic. 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. In his book he also outlined the basic conditions, stages, and results of the archetypal hero's journey. Campbell's other works include the four-volume Masks of God (1959-1967), The Flight of the Wild Gander (1969), and The Mythic Image (1974). In the mid-1980s a popular television interview series with the American journalist Bill Moyers introduced Campbell's views to millions of people.
http://www.spiritwalk.org/campbell.htm
Joseph Campbell Foundation:
http://www.jcf.org/
Books, CD's, and Video's Available Here:
http://www.mythosandlogos.com/Campbell.html
The Joseph Campbell & Marija Gimbutas Library:
http://www.pacifica.edu/cglibrary/index.html
Spiritwalk Mythology Page:
http://www.spiritwalk.org/mythology.htm
The Center for Story and Symbol:
http://www.rain.org/~young/