Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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  1. The Awesome Mystery of Being
  2. Life Kills Other Life to Live
  3. The First Function of Mythology
  4. The Second Function of Mythology
  5. The Third Function of Mythology
  6. Heresy Is the Life of a Mythology
  7. The Fourth Function of Mythology
  8. Adult Behavior and Changing Social Orders
  9. An Australian Initiation Rite
  10. Old Age and Death
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  1. Myths Give Inspiration for Aspiration
  2. Universal Motifs - Particular Differentiation
  3. The Three Orients
  4. Are You Your Body?
  5. Individual Identity in the Occident and Orient
  6. Living in Accord With the Cosmic Order
  7. Eons Come and Go: The Round of Existence
  8. Ego and Id in the Orient and Occident
  9. The Adventure of The Hero
  10. Universal Motifs: Particular Differentiation
  11. The Animal World - Humankind's First Inspiration
  12. Out of Death Comes Life - The Plant World as Inspi
  13. As Above So Below - The Cosmic Order as Inspiratio
  14. God in the Levantine Orient
  15. The Mythology for Today - The Other as Inspiration
  16. Europe and the Near East: A Summation
  17. Renounce the World or Roll With It
  18. Zen: A Samurai Story
  19. Living in the World: The Psychological Shift of Buddhism
  20. Mythology's Song - That's Life
  21. The Humbling of Indra
  22. Letting Go: The Fierce Yoga of Jainism
  23. The Great Cosmic Law
  24. Nietzsche's Superman
  25. The Story of the Buddha's Realization
  26. The Animal World: Humankind's First Inspiration
  27. The Freudian Ego: A Negative Power in the Orient
  28. Oriental and Occidental Domains
  29. Amida: Nirvana in Devotion
  30. Out of Death Comes Life: The Plant World as Inspiration
  31. Social Organization in Agricultural Communities
  32. The Split Being: Two Contrasting Myths
  33. Royal Burials
  34. Mythology's Song: That's Life
  35. The Mythology for Today: The Other as Inspiration
  36. Christ Crucified: A Synthesis of Job and Prometheus
  37. Job's Submission and Prometheus' Humanism
  38. Myth vs. History: A Story At the Lunch Counter
  39. Thomas Mann's Tonio Kroeger
  40. Carl Jung and the Mythic Imagery of Dreams
  41. Dissolution of the Medieval World Image
  42. Individual Uniqueness: The Gift of the West
  43. As Above So Below: The Cosmic Order as Inspiration
  44. The Impact of Science On Myth
  45. Biblical Mythologies: Metaphor Interpreted as Historical Fact
  46. What Myth Do I Live By
  47. The Moonwalk as a Mythological Event
  48. Psychology and the Shifting Attitude Toward Myth
  49. Smashing the Old World History
  50. Jungian Psychology: Personal Fantasies: Mythic Images
  51. The Four Functions of Mythology
  52. Society's Choice: Tradition or Truth
  53. Science: The Continual Quest
  54. Myths Integrate Individuals Into the Group
  55. One World: You Are the Source and Creator of the Gods
  56. Stanislav Grof and the Levels of Lsd Experience
  57. Myth's Dimensions: The Inner and Outer Garments
  58. The Letter 'm': Dreamless Sleep
  59. The Word Aum: The Sound of the Universe
  60. The Letter 'a': Waking Consciousness
  61. The Letter 'u': Dream Consciousness
  62. No Death: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunting Cultures
  63. Myths Work as Poetry
  64. The Silence Surrounding the Syllable
  65. Birth and Rebirth: Myth and Individual Development
  66. Life Through Death: Mythologies of the Primitive Planting Cultures
  67. Mythologies Shape Civilizations
  68. Cosmic Harmony: Mythologies of the First Cities
  69. Myth as Make Believe
  70. The Stages of Birth as Mythic Moods
  71. The Four Stages of the Birth Experience
  72. Separation of the Social and the Spiritual
  73. The Final Stages: Rapture and the Ground of Being
  74. Man's City: Mythologies of the Humanistic West
  75. The Cosmogonic Cycle
  76. No Horizons: The Mythic Enterprise of Today
  77. Elementary and Folk Ideas
  78. The Schizophrenic Journey
  79. Psychosis and Shamanism
  80. Parallel Imagery in Mythology and Schizophrenia
  81. The Three Basic Attitudes of Myth
  82. The Voice of the Universe
  83. The Sun and the Moon: Two Orders of Rebirth
  84. Buddhism as World Religion
  85. Nietzsche's Three Transformations of the Spirit
  86. Instinct in the Animal World
  87. Kundalini Yoga: Awakening the Coiled Serpent
  88. Mystical vs Psychotic Experience
  89. Lsd: Psychosis and Mysticism
  90. Symbol and Psychosis: Essential vs Paranoid Schizophrenia

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