Joseph Campbell

Universal Soldiers: Conversations With Donovan and Tommy Roe

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Roy Orbison, Joseph Campbell, Supergirl, John McLaughin, Donovan, Black Sabbath, Classics IV, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dennis Yost, The Beatles, Alan Parker, David Lynch, Rick Levy, Ione Skye, The McCoys, Paul Horn, Burt Berns, Geezer, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Donovan Leitch, Tommy Roe, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Marvel Comics, Dick Clark, Chris Spedding, Cher, Larry Klein, Ringo Starr, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Jim James, Joni Mitchell, Superman, Mickey Most, Charles Chaplin, Snow White, Jimmy Page, Epiphone, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"The Beatles and I went to India for ourselves at first because fame had become extraordinarily overwhelming. We turned to ourselves in a way by going to the ashram, learning about ourselves, de-stressing our incredible nervous systems that had been shocked by enormous fame."

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How to Change the World: A Breakthrough Idea From the Front Lines

Max Klau | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: City Year, Joseph Campbell, Leadership Development, The Social Animal, High School Dropouts, David Brooks, Impact News
Max Klau

In this era of urgent challenges and limited resources, we cannot afford well-intentioned but ineffective efforts to address pressing public problems like the high school drop-out crisis.

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Oh Yoga! I Know That Change Is Gonna Come

Alanna Kaivalya | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Yoga Controversy, Yoga, Alanna Kaivalya, John Friend, Yoga Teacher, Douglas Brooks, Guru, Joseph Campbell, Anusara, Yoga Practice, Marianne Williamson, New York Yoga, John Friend Yoga, Healthy Living News
Alanna Kaivalya

We do need external teachers for a while to guide, teach and hone our understanding and skills. But, at some point, all a teacher can do is lead us inward. Like a big cosmic U-turn, the guru is ultimately only trying to lead us home.

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Should You Date Outside Your Tribe?

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Nationalism, Ali Binazir, Joseph Campbell, Multiracial Children, Member of the Tribe, Dating and Race, Hapa, Ethnocentrism, Interrracial Dating, Biracial, Tao of Dating, Desi, Dating Outside Your Tribe, Hybrid Vigor, Valentine's Day, True Love, Relationships, Healthy Living News
Dr. Ali Binazir

With Valentine's Day approaching, here's an interesting letter I got recently, applying to both men and women.

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Arianna Talks With Bill Moyers About Joseph Campbell, Religion In Politics

Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Arianna Interviews Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell, Video, Bill Moyers Arianna Huffington, Bill Moyers Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers Arianna, Bill Moyers, Religion News

Bill Moyers is known as a veteran journalist as well as a central figure within both the Kennedy and Johnson White House. However, Moyers was also or...

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2012: Apocalypse Fatigue

Turnstyle | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Apocalypse, Occupy, Harold Camping, Daniel Pinchbeck, New Age, 2012hoax.Net, 2012 Apocalypse, 2012, Impact News
Turnstyle

By:Noah Nelson Photo Credit: Image: NASA/Public Domain Earth: it was fun while it lasted. Today is the beginning of the final countdown. We've g...

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Meatless Monday: Hero With A Thousand Faces

Ellen Kanner | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Baskin and Robbins, Joseph Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces, Earthsave, John Robbins, Buddha, Michael Pollan, Ulysses, Eric Schlosser, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Ellen Kanner

The pivotal part of the hero's experience, the payoff, is enlightenment. It took Buddha six years to get there. We can get there faster, especially with a diet that's plant-rich, not processed.

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Finding Joe Documentary Reminds Us of Our Hero's Journey

Jason Silva | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Monomyth, Finding Joe, Hero's Journey, Jason Silva, Joseph Campbell, Impact News
Jason Silva

The documentary Finding Joe, directed by Patrick Takaya Solomon, is a heart warming and inspired retelling of Joseph Campbell's iconic Hero's Journey.

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Yoga For Surfers

Liz Markus | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dogtown and Z-Boys, Yoga, Joseph Campbell, Tai Chi, Eoin Finn, Surfing, Blissology, Creativity, Meditation, Surfing Yoga, Yoga Surfers, Surfers Yoga, Yoga for Surfers, Benefits of Yoga, Yoga Surfing, Healthy Living News
Liz Markus

Canadian yoga teacher and Blissologist Eoin Finn found time to sit down with me to talk about yoga and surfing.

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Au Contraire: The King's Speech, Part III, A Fable

Glenn Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, t.h. White, Screenplays, The King's Speech, Carl Jung, Oscars, Tom Hooper, Colin Firth, Entertainment News
Glenn Young

The King's Speech is a diaphanous fairytale about a very real prince who must break free of his rigid, muzzling fairytale world to help rescue his country from a very real nightmare.

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The Truth Behind the Story

Jen Grisanti | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Joseph Campbell, Storytelling, James-Bonnet, Writing, The Tillman Story, Writing Advice, Los Angeles News
Jen Grisanti

The goal of the storyteller is to tap into the truth of the emotions inherent in the story that is being told. How do you find the truth? Through the...

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Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama

Christopher Cocca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monomyth, Religion, Joseph Campbell, Jesus Christ, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, 2012 Election, Religion and Politics, Barack Obama Biography, Dreams From My Father, Heroes, Mythology, Religion News
Christopher Cocca

Know that you are always voting, at least in part, for echos of a common journey, and for the hope that once your hero wins the victory, he or she will not be changed by it.

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(R)evolution in Consciousness: The Book of Symbols Launch at the Rubin Museum of Art

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Rubin Museum, Aras, The Book of Symbols, Jackon Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Eranas Society, Carl Jung, Lee Krasner, Leslie Dill, Pat Steir, C.G. Jung Center, Ronnberg. Tim McHenry, Rubin Museum of Art, Lee Smolin, Richard Panek, Olga Froebe-Kaptey, David Byrne, Arts News
Lisa Paul Streitfeld

The "Handless Maiden" of the Grimm's fairy tale... can be seen as representing a feminine being -in-the-world that is psychically so bedeviled by the...

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Meatless Monday: The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Food Revolution, John Robbins, Earthsave, Green News
Ellen Kanner

If your own hero's journey takes you no further than the dining room table, it can still be profound.

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Immersion in Pandora: The Virtual World of Avatar

Chris McGowan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Carter of Mars, Virtual Reality, Avatar, Titanic, Immersive Reality, Immersion, James Cameron Avatar, Terminator 2, Tree of Souls, Hallejulah Mountains, Cgi, Star Wars, Joseph Campbell, Dances With Wolves, James Cameron, 3D Film, Roger Dean, Na'vi, Pandora, Banshees, Virtual Worlds, Cyberspace, Noon Universe, Arkady Strugatsky, Strugatsky Brothers, Entertainment News
Chris McGowan

Avatar is a beautiful movie, but it isn't due to artful cinematography. Rather, the visual splendor lies in the inherent beauty of the alien world in which we are immersed.

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Making Real Peace with the Spirit of John F. Kennedy

David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Joseph Campbell, War, Obama, Vietnam, Stories, Myths, Guns, Shantideva, Iraq War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Politics News
David Vognar

The myth JFK fell to is that violence is an inevitable part of human nature and it is our fate to project it onto our streets and the global stage.

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CultureZohn: Ab Ex NY: A Contemporary Re-Telling of the Abstract Expressionist Tale Opens at MoMA

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hans Hofman, Red, Joseph Campbell, John Cage, Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Expressionism, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollack, Aaron Siskind, Willem De Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Rober Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Museum of Modern Art, Buckminster Fuller, Arts News
Patricia Zohn

2010-09-30-rothpull.jpgOnce upon a time, a group of American artists fought to distinguish themselves from their European elders and peers. They took as their quest nothing less than re-inventing art.

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Manifesting the Moon

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: Manifestation, Visualization, Nonduality, Sebastian Siegel, Meditation, Spirituality, Sleep, Myth, The Inner Life, Joseph Campbell, Oscar Wilde, Philosophy, Freud, Freedive, Psychology, Film, God, Poetry, Ken Wilber, Esoteric, Integral, Dreams, Actor, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, Arts News
Sebastian Siegel

Later I woke in the night saying aloud, "a beautiful aspect of nonduality is the rebirth of duality."

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Grinderman Is the First Great Band of the Anthropocene Epoch

Jillian Burt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Proposition, The Road, Joseph Campbell, John Hillcoat, 2001:a Space Odyssey, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave, Grinderman, Arts News
Jillian Burt

Grinderman is the first great band of the Anthropocene Epoch. Their music is primal, charming and funky and their lyrics are witty observations of where we stand as a civilization at this moment in geologic time.

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Our Heroes' Journey

Ravi Sawhney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soldier, Hero, Joseph Campbell, Business News
Ravi Sawhney

As business people, if we can understand and empathize with our consumers, surely we can do the same for those in uniform.

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Who Says All Religions Are the Same?

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mysticism, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell Perennialism, Prothero, Huston Smith Perennialism, God Is Not One, Perennial Philosophy, Stephen Prothero, Aldous Huxley, Religious Experience, Stephen Prothero God Is Not One, Aldous Huxley Perennialism, Spirituality, Huston Smith, Religion News
Philip Goldberg

The truth is, religions are both different and alike, depending on where one looks. And we need to look at the whole picture, because when we lean too far in either direction we lose our balance.

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Consciousness & The Hand of Destiny

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Motivational Speaker, Joseph Campbell, Philosophy, Contemplation, Ken Wilber, Psychology, Motivation, Sebastian Siegel, Destiny, Consciousness, Intuition, Meditation, Alan Watts, Spirituality, Schelling, Fear, Soul, Mind.Body.Soul, Inspiration, Sadness, Chakras, The Inner Life, Dying, Death, Integral, Grace and Grit, Healthy Living News
Sebastian Siegel

The tragedy of life isn't that life ends, but that for most the end doesn't feel deserved -- as if it always comes too soon.

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Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine & Rites of Passage: Songs of Scythian Stones

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Myth, Mongolia, Scythian Stones, Gogol Bordello, Kyrgyzstan, Yara Arts Group, Ukraine, La Mama, Eugene Hutz, Virlana Tkacz, Arts News
Michal Shapiro

Virlana Tkacz's work with the Yara Arts Group reflects her desire to re-integrate the ancient "ways of knowing" as she puts it, into modern life.

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Emotional Depth

Jen Grisanti | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Storytelling, Virgin's Promise, Writing, Kiim Hudson, Mythology, Los Angeles News
Jen Grisanti

By shining a light on the internal goal of your characters, you add an emotional depth that fulfills your audience. Be willing to go inside and your audience will feel the reward.

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Becoming One with God: Do We Make It Harder Than It Is?

Jeff Witzeman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, One With God, Oneness God, God Within, Spirituality, Oneness With God, Religion News
Jeff Witzeman

If the work we do on ourselves deals with giving up all attachment to our personal limitations, even our hopes and fears, that's the work that gets us closer to oneness with God.

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