[caption id="attachment_6492" align="alignleft" width="268"] Courtesy of A24 Films.[/caption] Author and JCF Associate John Bucher interviews renowned Icelandic poet and screenwriter Sjón about his new film, Lamb (2021). "Lamb (Icelandic: Dýrið, "The animal") is a 2021 Icelandic drama film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sjón. The film stars Noomi Rapace, and marks Valdimar...

Robert Walter, President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, offers this lecture on Mythology, Health, and Healing -- made available by the Jung Platform. Click here to purchase the lecture.

PERSEPHONE Double Album by WENDY RULE Persephone, the new double-album from Australian visionary songstress Wendy Rule is a beautifully evocative retelling of the Ancient Greek myth of the Goddess Persephone’s descent into the Underworld and the subsequent grief of her mother, the Goddess Demeter. The 24 track album is a...

The Hero's Journey: A Guide To Life? is a radio documentary (created for the Community Radio Network Australia, and available through the Soundcloud station Rosearth) produced by Teeya Blatt, Australian psychologist, and Ros Elliot, sound producer. It takes the listener through the steps of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey as it tells the story of Maria, a...

Amid the rattling of cultural institutions and radical changes in nature, it may be time to turn again to valuable traditional methods of cultural healing and individual mentoring. Shaping new forms from separate, estranged, or even broken pieces is a dynamic remedy for the personal isolation and spiritual dislocation that...

Think Spiritual is a podcast dedicated to exploring the wonder of the human soul. In this particular episode, Mark relates how the 2017 film, Thor: Ragnarok is a modern-day mythology that expresses one of the greatest aspects of the Hero's Journey: the mastery of Self.

Like Silk Road Journeys, Passages (by Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass) is good background & meditation music, and also good musical representation of musical diversity. Unlike Journeys, Passages is vaguely mythological. The final track, Prashanti (Peacefulness), describes the mini-myth of a village becoming slowly corrupt, and rescued from samsara by...

From AudioFile Two classics feature well-loved comedians. In the first, Robin Williams adopts the voice of an old cowboy telling the story of Pecos Bill. Backed by the lively music of Ry Cooder, Williams lets loose with energetic vocal antics, whether hes dropping his false teeth mid-story or describing Bill...

From AudioFile This collection of fairy tales brings together some wonderful stories. Though technically well done, however, each somehow comes up short. Although all the narrators read clearly and with some emotion, the overall effect is flat. In each story, the pacing is almost too slow for listeners (especially children)...

Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Volume One: Aladdin, Anansi, East of the Sun/West of the Moon, The Five Chinese Brothers Support JCF by using our store >> Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Volume 4: The Firebird, The Emperor's New Clothes Support JCF by using our store >> Rabbit...

From AudioFile You want to know the truth about how the camel got his hump? "You can't handle the truth!" That's what listeners will think when they listen to Jack Nicholson, one of the narrators of these tales. This sweet collection of four famous Rudyard Kipling stories is brought to...

[su_row][su_column size="1/2"] Blisters on the Way to Bliss by Dr. Catherine Svehla[/su_column][su_column size="1/2"]"Blisters on the way to Bliss" is an exploration of Joseph Campbell's notions of bliss and the Hero's Journey, utilizing three stories that Campbell often told. The download of this album includes a pdf of related materials from...

From AudioFile In the mid-eighties, Rabbit Ears pioneered audiobooks read by celebrities for children. They produced and packaged high-quality stories on cassettes, enhanced with original music and accompanied by colorful picture books, allowing young readers to follow along as they listened to master readers. This collection takes four American tall...

From AudioFile This reissued collection contains tales of two legendary women, Oonagh McCoul of Ireland and Princess Scargo of Cape Cod, and two historical figures, Annie Oakley and Sacajawea. Four accomplished narrators, whose styles range from measured to sprightly, use engaging but unobtrusive regional accents where appropriate. Original music in...

This story collection and its companion disc, "A People with One Heart," from JCF Fellow, Michael Pinder (formerly lead writer for the Moody Blues!) swept the awards for children's audio in 1997. They are as mesmerizing for adults as for young folks.

This story collection and its companion disc, "A Planet with One Mind," from JCF Fellow Michael Pinder (formerly lead writer for the Moody Blues!) swept the awards for children's audio in 1997. They are as mesmerizing for adults as for young folks.

Familiar fables find new meaning with celebrity performances. Holly Hunter and Art Lande perform "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and "The Three Little Pigs" in an upbeat, playful style. Repeated tunes and the use of accents differentiate characters, and there's adult-pleasing humor in both stories. Tangerine Dream's dreamy strains are...

No particular connection to Campbell's work. In fact, no mythological pretext whatsoever. But anybody with a creative mind will notice that differences in music are inexorably linked to similarities in music, just as in world mythology. Good music for background or meditation.