“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
Raised in an Irish Catholic family in White Plains, Campbell had an early fascination with Native American culture and mythology. He attended Dartmouth and Columbia Colleges and received degrees in English and Medieval Literature. While returning from a family trip to Europe in the 20’s, a chance shipboard meeting with Jiddu Krishnamurti (quoted earlier in this space) awoke in him a lifelong interest in eastern philosophy. Campbell withdrew to a shack in upstate New York for five years of intensive reading and study, learning French, German, Latin, Sanskrit, and Japanese in the process. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years and in 1949 published The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the seminal work of comparative mythology, followed in the 1960’s by The Masks of God. Both books have had an enormous influence on writers and storytellers as diverse as George Lucas and Richard Adams, but it was the 1988 PBS series The Power of Myth, in which journalist Bill Moyers interviewed Campbell at length, that brought his ideas into popular culture. The Joseph Campbell Foundation continues to publish his astonishingly prolific output of books, essays and talks on the nature of the universal human search for meaning.
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Love Joseph Campbell. I learned more about myself from watching the videos of Bill Moyers interviewing Mr. Campbell (The Power of Myth) than listening to any other person. Incredible man.
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