Revealing the Asia of forty years ago, the personal journal of the renowned mythologist shows his many facets--archaeologist, scholar, ambassador, adventurer, and observer. From the author of The Power of Myth and Acts of God.

Baksheesh and Brahman: Indian Journal 1954-1955 (Joseph Campbell Works)

Politics & Social Sciences

LARSEN, Stephen

Larsen, Robin

Van Couvering, Antony

CAMPBELL, JOSEPH

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

The Shaman's Doorway: Opening the Mythic Imagination to Contemporary Consciousness

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Philosophy

Harper&Row

A comprehensive blography of mythologist, teacher, and storyteller Joseph Campbell, based on heretofore untapped primary sources. It is destined to stand next to Campbell's own classics as essential reading for his legions of fans and admirers.

A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Anchor

From Library Journal 
Larsen, a protege and official biographer of the late Joseph Campbell, draws on his own experience as a therapist and student of myth to encourage readers to explore their own myths and mythmaking abilities. Through listening to our own personal mythologies, says Larsen, we can tap into a wealth of creative and healing energies. The final chapter offers "creative mythology exercises" in journal keeping, mask making, and creative visualization. While Larsen has much to say that is interesting and instructive, his book lacks overall unity and alternates between an academic and a popular tone. Patrons may prefer the works of Campbell or June Singer's Seeing Through the Visible World ( LJ 7/90).\n-Lucy Patrick, Florida State Univ. Lib., Tallahassee 
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The Mythic Imagination: Your Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Bantam Dell Pub Group

Mythic Imagination, The: Your Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology

Bantam]

The Shaman’s Doorway is one of the most significant and inspiring works on the relationship of shamanism to both the psyche and society. Drawing on his experience as a psychotherapist and his understanding of primordial shamanic traditions, Stephen Larsen shows the relevance of this path to the modern world and how it can lead to a creative and affirmative relationship with life. “Life dismembers us,” Larsen says, and a new grasp of these ancient techniques for altering consciousness is required to escape from the alienation and confusion caused by our demythologized and industrialized environment. Defining the task of the shaman as one of bringing meaning and healing into life, Larsen clearly shows how the shaman, all too often perceived as belonging to the world’s past, holds the key to our future.

The Shaman's Doorway: Opening Imagination to Power and Myth

Station Hill Pr

The fascinating biography that illuminates the man whose work changed modern culture • Gives a complete biographical view of Campbell's life and a personal perspective of who he was through the voices of his friends and colleagues • Written by two of Campbell's preeminent students with exclusive access to his notes and journals Joseph Campbell forged an approach to the study of myth and legend that made ancient traditions and beliefs immediate, relevant, and universal. His teachings and literary works, including The Masks of God, have shown that beneath the apparent themes of world mythology lie patterns that reveal the ways in which we all may encounter the great mysteries of existence: birth, growth, soul development, and death. Biographers Stephen and Robin Larsen, students and friends of Campbell for more than 20 years, weave a rich tapestry of stories and insights that catalogue both his personal and public triumphs.

Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind

Inner Traditions

Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work, with its signature power, lyricism, and grand proportions, heightens the viewer's sense of fantasy, imagination, and discovery. From the primordial human urge to make sacred space, Van de Bovenkamp has created an oeuvre significant for the way his decisions about scale, material, content, and form dynamically interact with the natural and architectural world that surrounds his sculptures. Cascading water becomes a curtain in Ottowa Falls; with their sinuous, animated curves, his giant cloud and fiddlehead forms function as metaphors for the vital life force in all organic forms; his circles-and-waves series balances floating, lyrical units above anchored ring-like forms, denoting the sun, the moon, the ocean. And his bronze and stainless steel Menhirs with their indistinguishable eroticism and spirituality look back to the prehistoric, sacred, upright monumental stones built in the Neolithic and Early Bronze ages. This vivid monograph includes a detailed chronology highlighted by the artist's personal recollections, as well as illuminating essays on his creation of sacred space, monumental sculpture, and the seductive Menhir series.

Hans Van de Bovenkamp

Arts & Photography

Kuspit, Donald

Braff, Phyllis

Sculpture

Hudson Hills

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