Joseph Campbell

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• What Constitutes “Derivative”? Part 2

  
  A Christian Worldview of Fiction — Authority: 123
  Reminder: Today is the last day to vote in the Clive Staples Award – Readers Choice for the best Christian speculative novel published in 2008 by a royalty-paying publisher. Also, you have until December 2 to vote for the November CSFF Top Tour Blogger . - – - I find this “what constitutes derivative ...
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• Why you won’t find Disney books in my store.

  
  Bookshop Blog — Authority: 411
  Long ago when my children were young, I was reading them the story of Pinocchio in a Walt Disney book. I started telling them about the Italian who had written it so long ago, but couldn’t remember his name. I looked all over that book. Carlo Collodi was not mentioned. It was ‘Walt Disney’s Pinocchio.” What ...
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• Joseph Campell, George Lucas and Star Wars

  
  tangelos — Authority: 100
  Did you know that George Lucas had a planner when he created Star Wars?I like to wax on about the role of Joseph Campbell in Lucas’ work when people ask me why I get so wound up about narrative and archetypes and universal truths when “it’s just advertising.” You could say George Lucas just makes [...]
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• Mystical Union

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Ones life philosophy is not an abstract matter; it has to serve ones daily life. Joseph Campbell, whose guiding idea was expressed as "the commonality of themes in world myths," was once asked by the interviewer Bill Moyers, "Youre talking about a search for the meaning of life?" "No, no, no," he replied. "For the ...
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• On--not between--a rock and a hard place

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 129
  Why do you read?  Why does anyone read? To glean information, of course; to discover who won a race, a game, an election, a literary prize; to discover how differing persons felt when they were doing things you had always dreamed of doing but were somehow too timid to undertake or born in the wrong century or place ...
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• Andre Agassi: What a rich man’s discontent can teach us all about living an authentic life

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  They say money can’t buy happiness. The same also goes for celebrity, and even the status that accompanies being among the best in the world at your profession. We’ve had ample demonstration of this in recent days. Robert Enke, the goaltender for Hannover 96 (who currently hover in the middle of the German ...
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• Science, Technology, Religion, Symbols & Dreams and Power of Myth

  
  Random Thoughts — Authority: 122
  
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• Heroic Travel: The Mythic Art of Homecoming

  
  Brave New Traveler — Authority: 526
  Photo: Eddi 07 Returning home may be the hardest part of the Hero’s Journey. Part III: Return To see our lives in the poetic light of a heroic quest is empowering. It frames our experience in a creative context. Imagining ourselves as heroes in the cause of our own lives is to embody timeless attributes. ...
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• How Many Humans Does It Take to Make Art?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  With an oil lamp for light and crude pigments (charcoal and ochre), the creators of Paleolithic art crawled into the darkness of deep caves and drew all sorts of animals and signs on the rocky walls and ceilings. Some anthropologists have postulated that the art was done as a kind of good luck "hunting magic" (draw ...
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• Love, Like the Wind, Still Remains: Brule AIRO- Heros Journey, Storytelling, and Your Core Story

  
  Profitable Storytelling for Business & Personal Growth — Authority: 138
  I had the supreme honor and pleasure of attending a concert of Brule and the American Indian Rock Opera at the RFD TV Theater in Branson, Missouri .  What I love most about this group is not the fabulous and moving music or the breathtaking dancing, although their performance is truly spectacular and not to ...
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• Monday Reflection

  
  Musings from the Moonroom — Authority: 113
  He who thinks he knows, doesn’t know. He who knows that he doesn’t know, knows. - Joseph Campbell
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• Heroic Travel: Navigating the Mythic Journey

  
  Brave New Traveler — Authority: 526
  Photo: yosoyjulito Taking the mythic road-less-traveled means encountering trials, temptation, death and rebirth. Part II: Initiation Travel is a fundamentally human activity, practiced around the world for thousands of years. It’s about discovery – the passion of following where an unknown road will lead ...
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• Waiting in the Wings

  
  Spirited Woman Blogger Team — Authority: 135
  To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings . -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard Business School This week I have definitely been in "waiting mode" -- waiting for a promised book project to finally materialize, waiting to see whether a particular bill will pass in the Senate because ...
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• Nature Is Transformative

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Joseph Campbell tells the story of how a Zen master stood up before his students to deliver a sermon. Just as he was about to open his mouth, a bird sang. The Zen master proclaimed, "The sermon has been delivered." Nature is a natural teacher. All you need is to read its sacred scripture. A student had neither harmony ...
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• Joseph Campbell: When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves...

  
  Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote — Authority: 130
  When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. - Joseph Campbell The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering is often service to others. - jlh *** Book of the day: Are you finally ready to love your body and love ...
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• Heroic Travel: Joseph Campbell and the Powerful Mythic Journey

  
  Brave New Traveler — Authority: 526
  Photo: h.koppdelaney Leaving the comfort of home and entering another world calls for a hero ready to commit to the unknown. Part I: Separation Joseph Campbell returned home from his studies in Europe soon after his twenty-fifth birthday. Inspired by the brilliant tapestry of thought he encountered there, he ...
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• The Wilderness Journey of a Narcissist

  
  Marking Time — Authority: 104
    “Metamorphosis of Narcissus”, 1937, Salvador Dali Doing some homework this week as part of  a sort of inner inventory. Specifically I’m looking at some of the classic myths, stories and symbols that I have taken up or been given as my own personal “sacred stories” (to use Soulcraft author Bill ...
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