The contributors take us far and wide, exploring different ways to explore Campbell’s thoughts, allowing insights into the nuances and subtleties of his mythological world, and striking new ways to illuminate the Campbellian universe.In 1985, mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987) sat down with legendary interviewer and idea-monger Bill Moyers for a lengthy conversation at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch in California, which continued the following year at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Distinguished scientists and outstanding practitioners have joined this journey in tribute to Campbell and the 30th anniversary of his death. The introduction gives an overview of Campbell’s ultimate boon and a summary of each of the 12 articles that follow. The main objective of this special issue of the Journal of Genius and Eminence is to explore the multi-faceted potential of the hero’s journey and perhaps shed new light on it. It represents a universal motif which runs through virtually all kinds of change, transformation, and growth. 29) for the human condition and social world. The hero’s journey is his gift, his “ultimate boon” (Campbell, 2008, p. His elixir of life was to help people “see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it” (Campbell, 2003, p. Joseph Campbell is the mythographer of the last century who has congenially opened the mythological universe to both scholars and to a wide range of people searching for pathways to enlighten their lives. Suitable for both specialists and the general reading public. The images of our inner realms personified by gods and goddesses of Indian pantheon emerge as universalities of human experience across time and cultures. Stefania Dimitrova explores the evolution of the human “psychic genome” from the dawn of human consciousness to the modern era of Integration. The book combines the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s understanding of comparative mythology. It gives us a healing vision of order underlying the apparent chaos and emits soothing vibrations of unity to tune us up into the spirit of time. This is a new idea, a new light upon the meaning of life, with which humans can work towards a larger understanding of themselves and their relation to the Universe.

The fundamental myths of India are fascinatingly retold as a saga of the human psyche’s light and dark sides. THE DAY OF BRAHMA presents Indian mythology as an organic whole which resembles the Tree of Life whose branches are the seven major fields of knowledge.

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