Comparative Mythology


The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Power of Myth
The Golden Bough
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 2: Oriental Mythology
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
Myths to Live By
The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
Comparative Mythology
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
How we see the world
585 books — 167 voters
The 36 Watchers by Dan Bar HavaThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellMan's Most Dangerous Myth by Ashley MontaguThe Masks of God, Volume 1 by Joseph Campbell
Comparative Mythology books
120 books — 15 voters

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellBeowulf by Seamus HeaneyMythos - The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen FryTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY/FOLKLORE
212 books — 12 voters
The Art of War by Sun TzuThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaThe Way of Zen by Alan W. WattsSymposium by PlatoThe Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid
Joseph Campbell Reading List
49 books — 33 voters

Jacques F. Vallée
“ Is the mechanism of UFO apparitions, then, an invariant in all cultures? Are we faced here with something more than a projection of Jung’s archetypal images, a psychic technology whose applications know few if any limitations in space and in time? I see no better hypothesis at this point of our knowledge of UFO phenomena. Certainly the space visitors hypothesis fails to explain adequately the ancient symbolism. We do not have a simple series of incidents that could be explained as an encounter w ...more ”
― Jacques F. Vallée, The Invisible College

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