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Archetypes and Stories Beyond The Hero's Journey

By Charles Eisenstein — 2019

I don't think the hero's journey is a useless archetype. I think it's a powerful archetype. It's just like we've made everything about it, as if it is THE map for life.

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The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By

A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S.

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Carol S. Pearson
2015
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From War to Wonder: Recovering Your Personal Myth Through Homer’s Odyssey

From War to Wonder, Dennis Slattery’s new book, not only explicates the beauty and power of the Odyssey, Homer’s twenty-seven-hundred-year-old marvel-filled epic, it also offers a marvelous way to interact with it on a daily basis.

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Dennis Patrick Slattery, Edward Tick
2025
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The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey?

Campbell claimed his theory, which has gone on to influence everything from Star Wars to Disney’s Aladdin, arose from a universal structure inherent in the global myths of antiquity. The problem is, that’s a lie. Campbell’s theory is as mythological as the stories from which it borrows.

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Sarah E. Bond, Joel Christensen
2021
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Finding Joe

A truly inspirational film, Finding Joe explores the studies of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell. Take a journey through the human psyche and discover the pattern hidden in every story.

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2011
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Ring of Power

A vivid grasp of the story and the characters in “The Ring of Niebelung” brings Richard Wagner’s mythic four-opera cycle to life.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen
1999
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Joseph Campbell Is the Hidden Link Between ‘2001,’ ‘Star Wars,’ and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

Mythology and the Hero’s Journey became pervasive throughout film culture and history as generation after generation turned to Joseph Campbell and The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

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Will Linn
2018
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Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to Light

This highly innovative work presents a piercing interpretation of the tarot in terms of Jungian psychology. Through analogies to the humanities, mythology, and the graphic arts, the significance of the cards is related to personal growth and what Jung termed “individuation.

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Sallie Nichols, Mary K. Greer (foreword)
2019
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A Passion for the Possible: A Guide to Realizing Your True Potential

Discover your own extraordinary gifts and live every day with passion Now you can explore and expand your own unique possibilities on all four levels of your being--the physical, psychological, symbolic, and spiritual—using the practical and creative tools in this remarkable guide.

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Jean Houston
1998
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology.

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Joseph Campbell
2008
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The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work

Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers.

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Joseph Campbell
2014
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