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Spiritual Disciplines: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks
Essays by Rudolf Bernoulli, Martin Buber, C. M. von Cammerloher, T. W. Danzel, Friedrich Heiler, C. G. Jung, C. Kerényi, John Layard, Fritz Meier, Max Pulver, Erwin Rousselle, and Heinrich Zimmer. With an introduction by Mircea Eliade.
Originally published in 1960.
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Originally published in 1960.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- GenresPhilosophyReligion
509 pages, paper
First published September 1, 1960
About the author
Joseph Campbell
380 books6,441 followersJoseph Campbell was an American author and teacher best known for his work in the field of comparative mythology. He was born in New York City in 1904, and from early childhood he became interested in mythology. He loved to read books about American Indian cultures, and frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles.
Campbell was educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in medieval literature, and continued his studies at universities in Paris and Munich. While abroad he was influenced by the art of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, the novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. These encounters led to Campbell's theory that all myths and epics are linked in the human psyche, and that they are cultural manifestations of the universal need to explain social, cosmological, and spiritual realities.
After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, and then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 40s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He also edited works by the German scholar Heinrich Zimmer on Indian art, myths, and philosophy. In 1944, with Henry Morton Robinson, Campbell published A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. His first original work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, came out in 1949 and was immediately well received; in time, it became acclaimed as 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.
Throughout his life, he traveled extensively and wrote prolifically, authoring many books, including the four-volume series The Masks of God, Myths to Live By, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space and The Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Joseph Campbell died in 1987. In 1988, a series of television interviews with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth, introduced Campbell's views to millions of people.
Campbell was educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in medieval literature, and continued his studies at universities in Paris and Munich. While abroad he was influenced by the art of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, the novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. These encounters led to Campbell's theory that all myths and epics are linked in the human psyche, and that they are cultural manifestations of the universal need to explain social, cosmological, and spiritual realities.
After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, and then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 40s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He also edited works by the German scholar Heinrich Zimmer on Indian art, myths, and philosophy. In 1944, with Henry Morton Robinson, Campbell published A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. His first original work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, came out in 1949 and was immediately well received; in time, it became acclaimed as 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.
Throughout his life, he traveled extensively and wrote prolifically, authoring many books, including the four-volume series The Masks of God, Myths to Live By, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space and The Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Joseph Campbell died in 1987. In 1988, a series of television interviews with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth, introduced Campbell's views to millions of people.
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May 22, 2011
Spiritual Disciplines consists of a series of talks given by speakers at the Eranos Conference which revolved around the discoveries of Depth Psychology.
I particularly enjoyed this book as it presented the perspectives of world renown authorities as Rudolf Bernoulli, Martin Buber, C.G. Jung, John Layard, Fritz Meier, Max Pulver, Erwin Rousselle and Heinrich Zimmer.
On the Significance of the Indian Tantric Yoga by Heinrich Zimmer was particularly insightful and gratifying to read.
Like many the very mention of Tantric Yoga filled me with trepidation as it is a subject I was unfamiliar with and whose vocabulary and terminology have the feel of an alien to me.
Happily, Heinrich Zimmer while an authority on Tantric Yoga also has the ability to write from the perspective of a Westerner. He presents his talk both in a language which allows the novice to understand abstruse scholarly material. Additionally the presentation is far from a stale dry professorial dissertation but rather is filled with the breath of life that can only be expresses by those whose subject matter has become a living experience.
I particularly enjoyed this book as it presented the perspectives of world renown authorities as Rudolf Bernoulli, Martin Buber, C.G. Jung, John Layard, Fritz Meier, Max Pulver, Erwin Rousselle and Heinrich Zimmer.
On the Significance of the Indian Tantric Yoga by Heinrich Zimmer was particularly insightful and gratifying to read.
Like many the very mention of Tantric Yoga filled me with trepidation as it is a subject I was unfamiliar with and whose vocabulary and terminology have the feel of an alien to me.
Happily, Heinrich Zimmer while an authority on Tantric Yoga also has the ability to write from the perspective of a Westerner. He presents his talk both in a language which allows the novice to understand abstruse scholarly material. Additionally the presentation is far from a stale dry professorial dissertation but rather is filled with the breath of life that can only be expresses by those whose subject matter has become a living experience.
March 25, 2013
A smorgasbord of esoterism, theology, philosophy and symbolism. Included is the Jung and Pauli paper on Pauli's world-clock vision.
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September 1, 2013Eranos Yearbook 4
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