Joseph Campbell


The Power of Myth
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 4: Creative Mythology
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work (Works)
The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology
Myths to Live By
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
The Masks of God, Volume 2: Oriental Mythology
Transformations of Myth Through Time
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
The Mythic Image
Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (Collected Work)
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Worksl)
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Holes by Louis SacharElias and The Legend of Sirok by Edward G. KardosHard Love by Ellen WittlingerSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonHole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Hero's Journey Independent Reading
15 books — 4 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
48 books — 32 voters

Poet Anderson ...of Nightmares by Tom DeLongeMemories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. JungThe Dream and the Underworld by James HillmanThe Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund FreudInner Work by Robert A. Johnson
Best Books About Dreams
54 books — 49 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCandide by Voltaire
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
269 books — 92 voters

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas SowellThe Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich A. HayekThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtThe Writings of William James by William  JamesThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Erraticus Must Reads
31 books — 7 voters
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines by René GuénonThe Perennial Philosophy by Aldous HuxleyThe Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy by Ananda K. CoomaraswamyForgotten Truth by Huston SmithTo Have a Center by Frithjof Schuon
Perennial Philosophy
55 books — 9 voters

Joseph Campbell
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ...more
Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell
Schopenhauer, in his splendid essay called "On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual," points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent orderand plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as your dre ...more
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (1988) Paperback

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