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Tag Archives: Joseph Campbell
Myth in Contemporary Society and Politics: An Introduction
In recent years we have seen increasingly strident, polarized, and factually false narratives emerge and circulate in our society and political life. This situation is confusing, and fractures our society and politics. We wonder how this all came about, and … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology
Tagged Age of Enlightenment, Aristotle, Carl Jung, Donald Trump, Joseph Campbell
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Christ’s Resurrection and our Redemption: A Mytho-Psychological View of Easter
In the last of my Easter posts from last year about the mythological aspects of the holiday, I focused on the meaning of Christ’s resurrection in mytho-psychological terms and what this means for our own spirituality, concluding that our resurrection … Continue reading
Christmas Mythology III: Jesus and the “Birth of the Hero” Mythological Motif
Myths and legends feature countless hero figures, and even real history features many people whose lives have been mythologized, being elevated into larger-than-life figures. Scholars have long recognized that Jesus as portrayed in the New Testament and its apocrypha is … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged apocalypticism, birth of the hero, Christ, hero cycle, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Lord Raglan, Otto Rank
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The Mythology of Easter III: The Mythical Meaning of the Resurrection
In yesterday’s post I first concluded that the story of Christ’s resurrection would not have originated by transferring the earlier motif of dying and rising gods to form the epilogue to Christ’s death, but in the end concluded that they, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged Carl Jung, Christ, Dioscuri, Dundes, Easter, Edinger, Emperor's cult, Gospel of Peter, higher self, holidays, introversion, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, meditation, Mithras, mysteries, mythology, Osiris, Parzival, psychic energy, Resurrection, Resurrection of Christ, self, St. Paul, wasteland, Wolfram
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Light and Dark Personal Mythology in Current Events
These days we ponder what should be the “new myths” in light of our modern-day reality, but upon reflection we can see that many already exist and are playing themselves out on the public stage, in the form of people’s “personal … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, The New Myths/Global Myths
Tagged Carl Jung, don quixote, Joseph Campbell, mythology, new myths, Ortega y Gasset, personal mythology
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My Lecture at Theosophical Society on Esoteric Christianity and the Garden of Eden Story Now Available on YouTube and the Society’s Website
The video of my October 29 lecture at the Theosophical Society in America about Esoteric Christianity and the Garden of Eden Story (including my PowerPoint slides) is now up on YouTube, as well as on the Society’s Website. It is … Continue reading
Mythology’s Rightful Place in Biblical Criticism
While watching the address of Pope Francis to our lawmakers in Congress yesterday, I was impressed by how deftly he invoked the figure of Moses to point out that, as a lawgiver at the earthly level he brought justice to … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Mythology
Tagged Alan Watts, biblical criticism, Carl Jung, Christ, D. Andrew Kille, garden of eden, Jacob and Esau, John Domonic Crossan, Joseph Campbell, mythological biblical criticism, mythology, mythopolemics, Phil Cousineau, Pope Francis, psychological biblical criticism, The Mythology of Eden, Wayne Rollins
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Creative Mythology: Another Conversation with Willi Paul
I just completed another interesting conversation in PlanetShifter Magazine with mythologist Willi Paul. This time we interviewed each other on the topic of what Creative Mythology means in the mythology community today. Our cross interview is below; if you want … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, The New Myths/Global Myths, Uncategorized
Tagged adam and eve, Asherah, classical myths. Mother Goddess, creative mythology, eden story, Edward Edinger, garden of eden, Greek myths, hero cycle, Joseph Campbell, knowledge of good and evil, mystery cults, Parzival, sacred tree, sacred trees, The Mythology of Eden, Tristan, Yahwism
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What Should Be the New Myths? Global Myths?
One of the burning questions in mythological studies these days is what should be the new myths that will replace the old ones that no longer resonate with us in the modern world, whether the new myths can be truly … Continue reading
Posted in The New Myths/Global Myths
Tagged earthrise, global myths, Joseph Campbell, McMyth, new myths, Willi Paul
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Mythology Matters 