About this title: A series of interviews that Bill Moyers conducted with Joseph Campbell near the end of the scholar's life. They range across his writings and serve as a summing up. Each chapter has a focus on one aspect of myth as reflected in Campbell's writings and each conversation brings out the idea that myths go across time and are present in modern, everyday life.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780385247733ISBN:0385247737
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
"My 100th book for goodreads should be a memorable one.
TRUE STORY: I was facing one of those milestone birthdays where you find yourself asking the big questions like, "What the heck am I doing?" "Am I on the right course?" "Who am I?"
I wandered into a local bookstore thinking "Surely there's a book in here with some answers for me." I walked out with "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, the companion book for their PBS series of the same name.
A few pages into their dialog, I realized my angst wasn't anything new; I was on my own modest sort of "vision quest"...
Campbell, "going in quest of a boon, a vision, which has the same form in every mythology...You leave the world that you're in and go into a depth or into a distance or up to a height. There you come to what was missing in your consciousness in the world you formerly inhabited. Then comes the problem either of staying with that, or letting the world drop off, or return with that boon and try to hold onto it as you move back into your social world again. That's not an easy thing to do."
For me, it meant that I had to change everything in my life. And become a writer.
That IS not an easy thing to do.
Marvelous book filled with journeys, quests and timeless lessons from many of the world's cultures and myths."
"This book changed my life. It opened up a whole new world for me, a world much deeper and more significant even than the one I had, until then, imagined to be real. The past 13 years of my life, the direction(s) I have chosen to go, if it can be said that they have any creative significance at all, were able to go as far as they did because of the concepts and ideas introduced to me, almost exclusively --certainly most directly-- by Joseph Campbell in "The Power of Myth". Having said all this, I am not suggesting that this book presents a 'definitive' worldview, that it has or pretends to have any sort of monopoly of the Truth. Joseph Campbell was a masterful weaver and a wonderful storyteller, yet at the same time, something I have come to appreciate more fully now that I have gotten a little older, he was able to cut right to the bone. He appreciated the external forms (myth and ritual, etc.) but didn't allow himself to get caught up in them; he could see right through them and, much to our benefit, he could get right to the (his) point (no B.S.). He has been the best teacher I never knew. I will forever be grateful that he was here."
"So far interesting, but often dry and very meander-ey, but then again it's a transcribed conversation. I'm not sure how or why I didn't read this in college, but I suspect many of the authors and teachers who influenced me there have read it.
Not done yet, but I think I have some differences of style/opinion with the author. He's a "generalist" and I'm a wholistic/animistic type. He's awesome with mythology, but still seems to keep it in a box to the side like the rest of Western culture. I'm finding this weird, especially clashing with all his references to Eastern and Aboriginal cultures which have not separated spirit from matter as of yet."
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