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The course draws from classic and recent scholarship about the mythology of the world. Leading scholars have worked to integrate the series with several print components into a rounded course of study that promises to stimulate and challenge faculty as well as students. The program forms a foundation for Campbell's thoughts and helps to explain his unique approach to mythology.

Part The In the Beginning: Origins of Man and Myth Campbell explores the dawn of mankind's mythic consciousness with a study of temple caves from the Paleolithic period. Campbell also introduces the basic concepts in the study of mythology: the role of the shaman, the stages of initiation, and the significance of lunar and solar symbolism.

Through the artifacts from the Neolithic Period, Campbell traces the ascendance of the warrior cultures of the Gods over the agricultural based Goddesses societies. Part The Way to Enlightenment: Buddhism Campbell introduces stories of Buddha's life and enlightenment to reflect the essence of the Buddhist religion. As seen on PBS. Though this set, to quote hostess Susan Sarandon in her introduction, "isn't for everyone," for those with an abiding interest in the nooks and crannies of the human psyche, and Campbell's lifelong quest to knit together mythic strands from all of the world's cultures itself a mythic feat , this first two-disc volume, subtitled Shaping Our Mythic Tradition, is a treasure-trove of information coupled with Campbell's unique insight.

They are energies and they are matters of consciousness. In his final years, he gave a remarkable series of talks exploring all he had learned about myths, symbols, spiritual journeys, and more.

Seen on public television. Campbell begins the five programs on this two-disc set by reminding us that the purpose of myths is to relate human beings to their world. Early myths, says Campbell, connect humans to their place in the plant and animal world; later myths relate human society to the workings of astronomical cycles. It's an evolving process.

When we're in accord with nature, says Campbell, we reap nature's bounty. Hinduism and Buddhism are both efforts to relate people to their place in a cycle of existence that does not end until one transcends that cycle.

Hinduism, Campbell says, is to Buddhism as Judaism is to Christianity: the older religions are traditions, while Buddhism and Christianity are "credo religions," i. Campbell spends some time discussing the development of Buddhism from monastic beginnings to its later appeal to millions of people, from an era of no images of the Buddha to the creation of beautiful sculptures of him immersed in transcendent consciousness. Campbell goes on to discuss, at length, the workings of yoga and their connection to increasingly sophisticated orders of love.

The basic structure, however, has remained relatively unchanged and can be classified using the various stages of a hero's adventure through the story, stages such as the Call to Adventure, Receiving Supernatural Aid, Meeting with the Goddess, Atonement with the Father and Return.

These stages, as well as the symbols one encounters throughout the story, provide the necessary metaphors to express the spiritual truths the story is trying to convey. Metaphor for Campbell, in contrast with comparisons which make use of the word like, pretend to a literal interpretation of what they are referring to, as in the sentence "Jesus is the Son of God" rather than "the relationship of man to God is like that of a son to a father".

For example, according to Campbell, the Genesis myth from the Bible ought not be taken as a literal description of historical events happening in our current understanding of time and space, but as a metaphor for the rise of man's cognitive consciousness as it evolved from a prior animal state.

Skip to main content. Request new password. You are here Home. Joseph Campbell Mythology Collection audio ebooks Joseph John Campbell March 26, — October 30, was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion.