February 23, 2020
The Dream of Joy (from The Sleep of Sorrow and the Dream of Joy) by Raffaelle Monti (marble, England, 1861. Photo by Chris Beckett; used through a Creative Commons license). Having read and reread much...
February 16, 2020
[caption id="attachment_19622" align="aligncenter" width="2272"] Tiburon Mariposa Lily (© 2005, Julia Kudler. Used with permission.)[/caption] “We speak of the symbolism and metaphor of myth – but why? Why do myths have to use symbols to communicate?...
February 7, 2020
https://flic.kr/p/ZCZVUn A Journey into the Unknown by Bastian Schmidt. Used through a Creative Commons License How do we know what we know? When does an introduced idea cross that threshold from something encountered to something...
October 29, 2019
[embed]https://www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/2962437091/in/photolist-5vMgkz-91LryK-cFsMvu-u4A1w-7J2Wrq-dtVqyU-93KMDv-91P1ZG-7UfHYK-7xMHRM-fD6s76-2eqHCFJ-91f1Rw-canp5y-cansVf-canoMw-canv9W-c8EALW-cantUj-canpSh-canrDh-canoFU-44WUB-canoRq-kxHtuo-canqAo-canmqj-cans4U-c8UcdE-c8EN7W-canteY-c8EAXA-cant1q-c8EMPL-c8x1YN-canuxW-canrVG-canqKL-cansiS-bCjBJi-c9N2L5-cansx9-cans8W-c8EEQU-canp9W-99PYrt-6uyCrD-canpFA-canse3-c8wtnh[/embed] One of my earliest memories is centered around a lit stage draped in a red velvet curtain, inside a small theater in Colorado, watching a magician named Max Hapner pour a gallon of milk...
February 22, 2018
We are delighted to be able to bring you a new, digital edition of The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension, one of Joseph Campbell's most eclectic, thought-provoking books. . There are lots...
February 20, 2018
A few days ago, I came across this sentence from Joseph Campbell in his essay "Symbol Without Meaning" in The Flight of the Wild Gander. "The highest concern of all the mythologies, ceremonials, ethical systems, and...
February 6, 2018
The Joseph Campbell Foundation and New World Library are, later this month, releasing The Flight of the Wild Gander, one of Campbell’s most important, and popular, collection of essays. In these essays, Campbell is at his...