John Bonaduce contributes this week's MythBlast on the 1969 moon landing's impact on mythic understanding.

"The inscription on the curved aluminum surface reads simply: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.” Signed,— alongside signatures from the three astronauts—Richard Nixon. It’s quite a memorial for a President some would consider unworthy of such recognition. Seriously, even if you’re a Republican, this out-Rushmores Rushmore." Continue Reading… link in bio.

https://jcf.org/mythblasts/joseph-campbell-on-the-moon

Earthrise. Image Credit: NASA, Apollo 8 Crew, Bill Anders. CC2.0.

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Author and JCF Creative Director, John Bucher interviews renowned Icelandic poet and screenwriter Sjón about his film, Lamb (2021).

“Lamb (Icelandic: Dýrið, “The animal”) is a 2021 Icelandic drama film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sjón. The film stars Noomi Rapace, and marks Valdimar Jóhannsson’s feature-length directorial debut. Rapace and Béla Tarr act as executive producers. After premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, the film was released in Iceland on 24 September 2021. It was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.” [Wikipedia]

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https://www.jcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sjon-Interview.mp3
 
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Our quote this week is from Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers
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https://jcf.org/quote/the-naked-goddess/

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"Like dreams, myths are productions of the human imagination. Their images, consequently – though derived from the material world and its supposed history – are, like dreams, revelations of the deepest hopes, desires and fears, potentialities and conflicts, of the human will – which in turn is moved by the energies of the organs of the body operating variously against each other and in concert. Every myth, that is to say, whether or not by intention, is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors."
-Joseph Campbell

From The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

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From Thou Art That

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Photography by @tylerlapkin 

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Monica Martinez contributes this week's MythBlast on the Venus of Laussel.

"This month's MythBlast Series highlighted text is Joseph Campbell's Myths To Live By. I leafed through my copy in Portuguese and nothing struck me. I like to think about things that make me curious to know more, and apparently there were no triggers there. Therefore, I decided to dive into the English edition, which is richly illustrated. And right away an image from Chapter II, The Emergence of Mankind, took my breath away. There it was, emerging from limestone, a Venus that I had not yet been introduced to: the Venus of Laussel." Continue Reading…link in bio.

https://jcf.org/mythblasts/venus-of-laussel

Image: The Venus of Laussel is currently displayed in the Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France. Image via Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

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Our Myth & Meaning book club December pick is A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.

Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from captivity narratives of early Americans to the use of the color blue in Renaissance painting, not to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts, and the movie Vertigo. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.

To learn more about Literati and JCF's Myth & Meaning Book Club and to sign up… follow the link in our bio.

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Our quote this week is from Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers.  

https://jcf.org/quote/losing-yourself-the-ultimate-trial/

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Our gift to you this month is this eSingle. Access this download for free until the end of the month.

This extract from Thou Art That, the first title in the publishing partnership between Joseph Campbell Foundation and New World Library, remains one of the most inspiring, delightful pieces we have published together. “Earthrise” serves as an epilogue to the main text, a fascinating exploration and summing up of themes. It was originally published in The New York Times Magazine. The 1979 dialogue between Campbell and Kennedy (himself a distinguished theologian) sparkles with the same insight and wit as the book that Kennedy would edit together in 2001 from Campbell’s unpublished writings, lecture notes, and transcripts on the subject of transforming religious metaphor in the Abrahamic religions.

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From Myths To Live By

https://jcf.org/titles/myths-to-live-by/

Photography by @tylerlapkin Tyler Lapkin

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In this bonus episode, Joseph Campbell answers questions on what Jung means by "introvert", the significance of suicide in Buddhist Asia, and the release of ego. This is part of a question and answer session after a lecture that was recorded at the Wainwright House in 1967. The lecture given beforehand is Lecture I.2.I in the Joseph Campbell Audio Collection.
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https://pathways-with-joseph-campbell.simplecast.com/episodes/bonus-introverts-and-the-release-of-ego

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Bradley Olson contributes this week's MythBlast on November's theme, Fellowship, and the bonds forged on battlefields both literal and metaphorical.

"Generally, fellowship is what we call the act of meeting and sharing with others the important events of our lives, offering advice or aid, and pursuing shared goals or aims. Perhaps more importantly, it is a way of being seen, of creating a sense of belonging, of coming to know oneself through one’s relationships to others."
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https://jcf.org/mythblasts/we-happy-few

Image: Members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) striking for better working conditions, c. 1970. CC 2.0.

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“Not since Frazer’s Golden Bough has anyone achieved such a grand synthesis of world mythology. Boldly swimming upstream against the present scholarly emphasis on difference and context, Witzel assembles massive evidence for a single, prehistoric, Ur-mythology. An astonishing book.”–Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and author of The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was

“[Witzel’s] novel approach brings a different perspective to the myths he analyzes. By all rights, this book should provoke debate and is, therefore, indispensable to any research library. Summing Up: Essential.” —CHOICE

E.J. Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University.

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Our quote this week is from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation.

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"The goal of the hero trip
down to the jewel point
is to find those levels in the psyche
that open, open, open,
and finally open to the mystery
of your Self being
Buddha consciousness
or the Christ.

That’s the journey.

It is all about finding
that still point in your mind
where commitment drops away."
-Joseph Campbell

From: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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From Mythos 1, Episode 3: "On Being Human".

Photography by @tylerlapkin Tyler Lapkin

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