Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot / The Great Digest / The Analects
The study of Chinese culture was a dominant concern in Ezra Pound’s life and work. His great Canto XIII is about Kung (Confucius), Cantos LII-LXI deal with Chinese history, and in the later Cantos key...
Moses and Monotheism
This volume contains Freud’s speculations on various aspects of religion, on the basis of which he explains certain characteristics of Jewish people in their relations with Christians. From an intensive study of the Moses legend,...
Choreographer/JCF Co-Founder Jean Erdman Passes at 104
The Joseph Campbell Foundation is deeply saddened to announce that its co-founder, award-winning dancer and choreographer, wife of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, and extraordinary contributor to twentieth-century dance, passed away in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May...
Questing for Our Personal Myth: Writing, Remembering, and Renewing Our Story Through the Teachings of Joseph Campbell
Living myths…are not to be judged as true or false, but as effective or ineffective, maturative or pathogenic. —Joseph Campbell, Flight of the Wild Gander Myths are living symbols. They serve each of us individually...
Sea, Spirit, Sanctuary: Nantucket and Herman Melville’s Epic, Moby-Dick, as Spiritual Quest
In the tradition of C.G. Jung and mythologist Joseph Campbell, we will sojourn to the “far off isle” of Nantucket, 30 miles into the wild North Atlantic Sea. During this time together, we will explore...
The Way of Suffering
Like the Egyptian goddess Inanna, we have descended into the underworld. Like Inanna, who is stripped of her clothing as she passes through each of the seven gates of the underworld, we have had so...
Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians
“We are dealing here with a living literature,” wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942 by the American Folk-Lore Society, this is another...