The five lectures in "The Eastern Way" (Series I, Volume 3 of the Collected Lectures of Joseph Campbell), recorded early in Campbell’s career as a public speaker, explore the myths and symbols of the religions in India and East Asia. They were among those that Campbell kept in his study and used as the basis for later investigations of myth, symbolism, the psyche, and spiritual awakening. Provocative and exhilarating, full of wit and wisdom, they are windows into one of the greatest minds of our time. You may now download Volume 3 as our Thank You with a donation of $25 to JCF. Click on the title or album cover above to learn more and request your download.

Ho'omaika'ika'i: Voyage of Aloha
5/25/12  - 5/30/12

A Community Experience:  Honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the 25th Anniversary of the World Business Academy

Where: Honolulu, Hawaii

Four Day Conference: May 25-28, 2012
Two Day post-conference Retreat: May 29-30, 2012

Joseph Campbell's attachment to Hawaii began with his first visit in 1925 on the advice of his roommate, Olympian Jackson Scholz, after competing in a national AAU track meet in San Francisco. Campbell's wife, Jean Erdman, was born and raised on Oahu, and his parents moved to the islands to open and operate a small hosiery shop just in time for Pearl Harbor. In 1982, after 43 years in the same tiny New York apartment, Joe and Jean relocated to Honolulu, where they spent the last five years of Campbell's life.

To honor Joseph Campbell's lifelong love of Hawaii, mark the twentieth anniversary of the Foundation that stewards his legacy, and the 25th anniversary of the World Business Academy, we gather, in harmony, to share mana’o – knowledge, insight, and intuition - guided by Joseph Campbell’s thought shortly before his death in 1987:

"It's time to create new mythologies."

Details Here>>

JCF President Robert Walter invited Parisa Soultani and Stephen Olsson to screen segments of CEM Productions’ One Through Love at the Mythological ToolBox™ Playshop at Esalen this Spring. This film creates a multilingual, cinematic sense of the Sufi mystical experience, using the teachings and revelations that emerged through the lives, poetry and writings of Hz. Jalaluddin Rumi and Shams of Tabriz. The presentation was followed by a conversation exploring poetry, myth, & other matters metaphoric.

To learn more about this film and related projects that transcend religious and cultural barriers, click here>>

In the West, we have the idea of a conflict between good and evil, and so we are asked to stand for good against evil. We do not have a religion like almost everyone else in the world, putting us in accord with nature.... But in the East, the whole sphere of the universe is the womb of the Goddess, and the deities and all names and forms are within her bounds.—Joseph Campbell Sheldon Rocklin and Maxine Harris's film, Joseph Campbell's Sukhavati: A Mythic Journey, is a cinematic mediation on the archetypal, fundamentally human nature of myth, drawn from lectures of the late Joseph Campbell. In this audio companion to that exploration, the JCF has assembled a selection of audio recordings from those lectures and others—many never before released—that expand on and explore the concepts that Campbell touches on in the film. Donate $5.99 to JCF and download A Sukhavati Companion as our Thank You gift to you.

Revisit the extraordinary dialogues that fired the imagination and the intellect of millions a quarter-century ago. In this clip, Campbell and Moyers discuss "Star Wars" and the human need for heroes, spiritual adventure, and mythology.

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers airs this month on most PBS stations (check your local listings at http://pbs.org/tvschedules). 

JCF is excited to announce five new Joseph Campbell audio releases, avaible now for download. These are the last two lectures from Series I, Volume 5, and the first three lectures from Series I, Volume 6.  Click on the individual album covers below to access and download each lecture, or visit our audio download page to see other Joseph Campbell lectures currently available as our Thank You Gift with a donation of $5.99 (these can eventually be purchased over iTunes® and Amazon; however, if you download from JCF, the full amount of your donation will be spent on Foundation programs). JCF will release two more lectures to complete Volume I, then focus on brand new, previously unreleased recordings in Series II and III.
Lecture I.5.4 - History of the Gods by Joseph Campbell $5.99 Lecture I.6.2 - The Mythology of Love by Joseph Campbell $5.99	Lecture I.5.5 - The Religious Impulse  by Joseph Campbell $5.99 Lecture I.6.3 - The Arthurian Tradition by Joseph Campbell $5.99	Lecture I 6.1 - Origins of Western Mythology  by Joseph Campbell $5.99

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