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Deepak Chopra Honors Campbell and FOLLOW YOUR BLISS

Deepak Chopra discusses Joseph Campbell and unpacks one of Campbell’s most well-known ideas — Follow Your Bliss – in an article for Yahoo. Chopra corrects a number of misunderstandings around Campbell’s phrase and explains the way he understands the power…

FINDING JOE Made Available on YouTube

The official full length version of FINDING JOE: A story about Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey has been made available via YouTube by the filmmaker, Patrick Solomon. The documentary features Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Rashida Jones, Sir Ken Robinson…

Forget Fear, Find Bliss

The etherial website Faena Aleph published an article about Joseph Campbell and how to Follow Your Bliss. According to the text, Campbell would always advice his students to cling onto whatever made them happy, and to pay attention to the…

Kevin Galloway’s Solo Journey

Thomas Mooney writes for the Wide Open Country about musician Kevin Galloway and his new album, “The Change”. The article starts with the Campbell quote: “Follow Your Bliss”. It sets the tone for the telling of Galloway’s journey through this new…

Artist Lance Whitner Follows Her Bliss!

Audrey Dwyer writes for the Steamboat Pilot & Today about artist Lance Whitner’s latest art project. Whitner’s piece is called The Artistry of Life: Painting & Yoga and it takes inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s book, The Power of Myth. She was intrigued by the uniqueness…

Brendan Gill on Campbell

Joan Konner, Huston Smith, Roy Finch, Carol Wallace Orr and Roberta H. Markman write for the website NY Books about Brendan Gill’s thoughts on Joseph Campbell. Put in question is one of Joseph Campbell’s most famous quotes, “Follow Your Bliss”, and…

Chasing Happy

Founder of Happiness International, Kenneth Benjamin encourages you to find your bliss and gather the courage to follow it! Joseph Campbell never claimed to have the key to happiness, but he sure knew a way to pursue it. Campbell’s mantra…

Moyers and Campbell

Recordings and TRANSCRIPTS of The Power of Myth, conducted by Bill Moyers and featuring Joseph Campbell, all recorded at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch for PBS. Read the article published by Moyers & Company, which contains all of the interview’s transcript,…

Living With The Sun

In this East Hampton Star article, Mary Ellen Hannibal talks about the Hero Journey as conquering our enemies and finding our elixirs. She points out that Planet Earth might not be big enough for 7 billion Journeys, each slowly taking and…

Blissful Corner

In this inspiring article, Brain Pickings explores the use of Joseph Campbell’s wisdom in everyday life. Maybe it’s a special room where creativity flourishes, maybe it’s a state of mind. Whatever it is, finding you Bliss should always be in…

Wild and Blissful

In The Power of Myth, the PBS special hosted by Bill Moyer, Campbell speaks of Following your bliss, taking the necessary steps towards a happier and more fulfilling life. But to follow ones bliss may mean different things to different people,…

Self-Help to Follow Your Bliss

In this The New Yorker article, Nancy Franklin takes a closer look into Suze Orman’s reasoning behind writing her best-seller self-help books, how they helped in her relationship with money and God. Self-help books are widely popular within the United…

Joseph Campbell Centennial

In this article for Santa Barbara News Press, Tom Jacobs celebrates Campbell’s work with mythology on the 100th anniversary of his birth. He specifically talks about his talent on translating old myths into people’s current reality. His work as a teacher…

A Class of Campbell

This Sunday Voices article argues, with great admiration for Joseph Campbell and his work, that humans are hungry for myth. The success of films that follow Campbell’s Hero’s Journey shows that learning about myths and their meaning is just as nursing…

Naturally Blissful

  This Los Angeles Times article by Peter Barsocchini talks about one of the biggest talk show/game show hosts in American media history, Merv Griffin. Griffin was, above all, curious. He wanted to know about peoples lives, he needed to…

Blissful Provocation

“Follow your bliss” means different things to different people. For Amos Paul Kennedy, it meant leaving behind his job at AT&T in order to make mugs and posters that pack an artistic punch. Kennedy addresses race, and expresses a strong sense…

Barack Obama Quotes Joseph Campbell

David Karp, the CEO of Tumblr, interviews Barack Obama, and Joseph Campbell are brought up. In this interview, he gives a direct reference to Joseph Campbell’s “follow your bliss”. The comment is brief, but his familiarity with Campbell’s work remains…

Forward and Onwards

This blog post written by Keith Barber for Yes! Weekly explores a man’s journey from a tragic break-up to finding his bliss, while always leaning on Campbell’s work for inspiration and motivation. Learn more about Campbell’s bliss teachings.

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