MYTH BLAST
Suspended between Strength and Death is the Hanged Man. He doesn’t look particularly concerned. The illustrator of the emblematic Smith-Waite tarot deck, Pamela “Pixie” Coleman Smith, portrayed him as seemingly unsurprised and unbothered by his situation. His hair dangles down, and blood begins to pool in his head, which is encircled by a halo of yellow light. He swings gently in the breeze from one elegant leg, the other bent down behind it as a sort of physical and visual counterbalance. His hands are—clasped? tied?—behind his back. For more than one hundred years, tarot readers have wondered at Pixie’s illustration,…
MONTHLY GIFT
Our gift to you this month is eSingle titled The Occult in Myth and Literature, eSingle. Access this download for free until the end of the month.
“The Occult in Myth and Literature” is one of the twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays exploring myth in all its dimensions from the collection The Mythic Dimension.
FEATURED MEDIA
I.4.4.11 – The Rise of Civilization – God and Goddess – an excerpt from this lecture.
MYTHMAKER PODCAST NETWORK
The Joseph Campbell Foundation is proud to announce the creation of the MythMaker℠ Podcast Network. We hope to further the conversation around the work of Joseph Campbell and myth.
We are on Instagram
The Podcast With A Thousand Faces
An official podcast of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the MythMaker Podcast Network featuring interviews and conversations focused on the influence of Campbell, his work, and myth in culture. Spend some time listening to previous episodes and get ready for a new episode on the 7th of each month. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Link to episodes in our bio!
https://the-podcast-with-a-thousand-faces.simplecast.com/episodes
In this Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, you’ll find summaries of Campbell’s chapters about many different goddesses, as well as quotes, reading suggestions, discussion topics, and prompts for essays and creative projects.
Join us for a free, live webinar on July 8 with some of the authors of Goddesses: A Skeleton Key Study Guide. Find out more at jcf.org/studyguides
Link in bio.
#mythology #josephcampbellfoundation #followyourbliss #josephcampbell #jcf #goddesses #skeletonkeystudyguides
In this episode entitled, "The Heroine's Journey", Joseph Campbell discusses the possibilities, potentials, and pitfalls of a female version of the Hero's Journey. As host Bradley Olson suggests, it was an attempt, though imperfect, by Campbell to map out the Heroine's Journey. It was recorded in 1981. Host Bradley Olson introduces the lecture and offers a commentary at the end.
Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. Share with your friends and leave us a review!
Link to episode in bio…
https://pathways-with-joseph-campbell.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-23-the-heroines-journey
#josephcampbell #mythology #followyourbliss #josephcampbellpathways #josephcampbellfoundation #jcf #pathwayswithjosephcampbell #pathwayspodcast
From The Power of Myth
Find out more about the book..
Link in bio..
#josephcampbell #jcf #followyourbliss #mythology #josephcampbellfoundation #thepowerofmyth
"A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. But marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That’s why it’s a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you’re giving, you’re not giving to the other person: you’re giving to the relationship. And if you realize you are in the relationship just as the other person is, then it becomes life building, a life fostering and enriching experience, not an impoverishment because you’re giving to somebody else … This is the challenge of a marriage."
-Joseph Campbell
From: An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms
#jcf #mythology #josephcampbell #josephcampbellfoundation #followyourbliss #love #goddesses
