I had the distinct honor and pleasure to meet him and listen to him speak to about 7 or 8 young people while I was in High School. That meeting began my career as a storyteller.

Campbell was a giant; literally one of the most interesting and erudite people in my opinion who ever lived. I wish I could've met him or heard him lecture. Profoundly insightful...

"the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek"

I ordered The Power Of Myth in 1991 and was almost immediately captivated. Resonates now more than ever.

As a very young man, trying to find my way in the world, he blew my world view wide open and contributed significantly to a lifetime of passionate discovery. Though I never met him, he was like a beloved uncle or a father figure. Great spirit.

What a remarkable mind Joseph Campbell had, and the ability to communicate as he does on complex subjects using simple language. The dream the woman had of owls flying out of a cave and Campbell's interpretation, superb.

So glad there are these video recordings preserving Campbell and his lectures.

RIP .. Many years ago , he was the first person , and maybe the only person , I ever listened to , that could talk about god and actually make sense.

So engaged with Joseph Campbell. I have tried to share what an awesome teacher he was.💙

Oh Joe, the world wasn't ready for you and the gang. One day more than just the seekers will take great value in your words. Thank you for being brave enough to come down the tree and see the view from down there. We're still in the tree, picking bugs off each other.

This channel is a real gem. I keep coming back.

I look forward to the re-release of "Transformations of Myth Through Time" in full. Those were wonderful lectures, and need to be made available again, in their original presentation.

What a beautiful soul n thank you for your teachings n brilliance sir, May ur blessed soul Rest In Peace 🙏

Campbell is one of the greatest lecturers ever.

Greatest stories teller. I watched Bill Moyer interviewing him on PBS around 1989.

Jung revealed the distinguishing skill that catapulted Nietzsche into the league of Plato beyond perhaps even Schopenhauer, and Emerson. Nietzsche was highly trained as a classical philologist immersed in the original sources of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Hence, Nietzsche gained a profound knowledge of the greatest minds of antiquity and could read the source material in a direct first-hand way and not rely on second-hand accounts. Imagine being able to understand all the nuances of source material from the Bible in Hebrew or Plato in Greek to appreciate the nuances and meanings of texts directly rather than accept secondhand some other scholars' interpretation of the passage. Nietzsche's devastating critique of the intellectual edifice of the times originated because he knew how the professors of the time masked the truth to push an agenda, protect an intellectual moat, or just hide the truth from themselves or others for either lack of courage, intellectual depth, or other sinister reasons. Nietzsche lived and breathed for the truth. Just as a world-class poker player has to live, breathe, and sleep poker to be a world champion, a philosopher on the Olympian level of Nietzsche has to breathe the mountain air of truth every day in a way not possible for a man involved in a daily business or practice such as Jung. Sure, the business can keep the man "grounded", but to reach Nietzsche's Olympian level and full spectrum dominance philosophical level you need the foundational basics of classical philology combined with a passion and instinct for truth based on an actual reading of ancient wisdom in the original. As German philosopher Schopenhauer observed, unless a man can read Latin and Greek in the original, there will always be a hole in the scholar's education that undermines the depth of his intellectual thought. This observation is a bitter pill for us all in a vapid age of mass media and hollow men. Nietzsche was just such an intellectual tour de force that we will probably never be able to appreciate his greatness or sublime gifts to humanity. Greek and Latin are not emphasized in today's propaganda mills of liberal arts universities or even at the time of Jung when studying Latin and Greek required hard work most were not willing to endure. The German professor and later "laughing lion of the ages" was a sublime gift to humanity. In fact, Nietzsche's Navy Seal-like attack on the soft, descendent Western philosophers and clergy of the time came with devastating force and mountain lightning speed. Ultimately though, Nietzsche's attack came out of a deep love for man and his no-limit potential. Once the blinders came off and courageous, disciplined men were made aware of what the actual classical and Biblical texts meant free of some political or mercenary agenda, Nietzsche allows us all to share in the love for the search for truth. In this sense, Nietzsche, in exposing the agendas of many "translations" and university moat protecting "degrees" brings us all back to ourselves and our higher man potential once we breathe the mountain air of truth, and discover how the truth makes us all free from the agendas and deception of the establishment.

if this sort of material were in mainstream media , people would be less divided !

He is the nearest an intellectual has ever come to equilibrium in human life. If only more people searched out his thoughts and teachings.

I love these shorts videos with Campbell

So why the very short clips. Poor Joe, get his stuff out there. The world needs it.

weird thing i noticed,,, i am a dog person and little baby puppies only days old will dream. i watch the little eyes dart back and forth the little feet will be running i can hear the growl and bark in their sleep and i wonder where are the running ?what are they fighting with? who or what are they barking at ??? they are only days old they have seen none of theses things they have just got their eyes open but yet they experience things that they could have no knowledge of only days old.... they are getting this from someplace else the experience is locked into the dna spirit world of the unknowing the unseeing eye maybe sent by the all knowing all seeing eye,,, i just found this very interesting and wanted to share my thoughts in this thanks for reading it,,,

Campbell is a genius and a prophet. Love his views of the world

I only thought of the name Campbell earlier today. And this I experience all the time, sometimes very big events.

Anyone into Campbell should go to Amazon and get his DVD, "Sukhavati: A Mythic Journey."

My son had an owl follow him in a dream. My son woke up and the owl was sitting on his chest. He was scared. I told him don't be as owls are Gods creation too. This is confirmation of wisdom bestowed to my son as he has had other spiritual experiences too. Awesome video!

I have a reoccurring “vision” in meditation. Faces dating back to times unknown. No I do not recognize any of them, but understand they are me. I am now a 64 female, 90% of those faces are males...once the faces go away, I see marching men with weapons and very non military uniforms of sorts, young men consumed with fear. As of lately it has ramped up. But, this has been in my visions since very young. Great thing s are coming, huge transformation is inevitable! Blessings to all

It would have been truly fascinating if Dame Jane Goodall and Pro. Joseph Campbell were to come together on a lecture series. I wonder to what degree Chimpanzees dream and in some way shared them communally.

The "shocks" repressed by/into the unconscious seem to speak to Gabor Mate's psychology of addiction...

JC is a treasure indeed

What a genius of a man

the ego abhors not knowing thus avoids facing this reality of individual unconsciousness surrendering to our ignorance is a blessing to our consciousness and thus our ego can relax in the safety of not knowing although when more awareness coming forth scares the base reality of the ego... thus shock occurs and an aspect of shock includes the anger of the unexpected ; that is the realization of more being revealed as a threat to our general human understanding of our consciousness .... especially when physical and emotional trauma is involved , since our mind will reel from this extreme devastation that has been thrust upon us .... making us brutally aware of our feelings of hatred and our desire for retaliation ( our own cruelty ) and our fear of continued abuse which shocks our psyche since feeling devalued and being a victim of such disregard is enormously shocking ... our safety is destroyed and we wish to trust in life

Brilliant teacher

Enjoyed Joes history class in Germany with Tom Tullis professor UMUC! Isles are gear!

I love this man

*The psychological aspect of self realization is the heart of it all but someone else showed me there's an energetic component that can be used also to "force" our way through this. Check out Drukama if this stuff interests you. Be well everyone!*

Shadow work, thank you.

3:53 "The Owls... Are not what they seem....."

When you learn of Jung's way to do it, it becomes so simple and obvious.

Does anyone know what year this was recorded?

Human behavior is simply an act of compensation. If one follows the compensatory path to it's beginning, one will discover either a deficiency, an oversaturation or any combination of both, in the endocrine system and or the brain's neurotransmitter balance. Every human is in a constant state of seeking homeostasis (homeostasis being the debatable word here). From there, it gets very complicated.

Do you know the date of this talk?

I'm not sure there is a one to one correspondence of Freud's idea of the unconscious to Jung idea of the shadow -- unless the term has evolved into something little bit different?

Cuando publican en español. Me encantaría porque soy admiradora y estudiosa de sus obras

Awesome.

At 2:00 Campbell talks about two different sources of the unconscious, but he doesn't say they come from different parts of the brain and then he mixes them together. The part he calls "biology" is in the brain stem, and according to Mark Solms, is the real center of consciousness. This definition of consciousness refers to the feeling of being yourself or of being aware of yourself (Freud's Ego). Any creature with a brain stem might may be conscious, according to this theory. The repressed memories are just memories, stored in the cerebrum like other memories that are not repressed. Whether you repress them or deal with them may be an interesting subject for psychologists, but it's not about consciousness. The cerebrum stores and processes all kinds of information, but is not the center of you. Ie, the unconscious is not a secret you controlling you without your knowledge (the "Id" according to Freud, the 80% below the line on Campbell's diagram), like Jekyl and Hyde or a devil and angel sitting on either of your shoulders, but is more like a microprocessor and memory bank that you use to solve problems, mostly offline and not requiring your attention. "You" are your emotions and feelings, which are shaped by your subjective experiences, not the result of a meta process or higher level brain function, as one might imagine from reading Freud. But Freud was writing 100 years ago, before much was known about the physiology of the brain.

Would it not be more apt to say to someone who asks "what does an owl mean" is what is an owl to *you* since it is the personal unconscious that is speaking?

This is excellent. However symbols have a dual aspect and they are not just related to the past. Sometimes we do not fully understand the meaning and the meaning only comes later. The greater meaning of events in any book are that way as we read it. Owls may symbolize what is said here, but symbols are not always so self-referential only. Sometimes they also predict the general pattern of humanity in the universe. And the owl has more symbolic meaning than that. The human way of regarding symbols is also just a symbol of something greater in its patterns.

Owls are wise because they can see in the dark.

I have so much respect for Joseph Campbell, so it makes me sad to listen to him talk about Carl Jung, because at the time this video was created all the flaws, and ultimately the racism in Jung's conclusions were not known as they are now. Joseph Campbell's greatest quality was his understanding to respect all people and all beliefs equally. The hero's journey was developed by Campbell's lifetime work to find the commonalities within all religious cultures. He did not divide them into primitive and modern, nor does Campbell share the same spiritual beliefs as Jung, who viewed White Christians as modern and everyone else as primitive. Joseph Campbell was a very wise compassionate man. Jung was a smart researcher who sympathized with nazis. I thought it was worth mentioning. I love Campbell, but Jung was not a good person.

I had that same dream after reading all the Harry Potter books in a row and going with out sleep for two days.

Love jung.s work 🧐💫💛🌈🎆

I think Campbell had more answers to the world of Twin Peaks than Lynch is ever gonna let on

That is amazing that we all share the same mythological dreams. How is that possible?

Repression=Projection. Not just of negative emotion/experience but also of positive emotion/experience.

What year was this?

I have one dream that recurs ocassionally.. It feels like a night terror. In similar fashion to her dream, I am standing in a movie theater, watching a horror movie.. I feel something happen and I am transported into this movie called "The Rooms"... Firstly, there is usually a man who suffers facial trauma (I have a hard time with it). Secondly I come to a long, dark hallway with a figure at the end of it... It is tall, lanky, has impossibly long arms, no eyes, yellow sharp teeth and a scream that could scare the bejesus out of anybody.. And it runs right for me, screaming like a banshee. Any attempt to escape the theater lands be back to the beginning of the room I am in. If I wake up (Which I do during the hallway scene) then I wake up terrified. But if I go back to sleep *The dream continues where I left off.* There are several rooms, all of which contain darkness or the things I fear the most. Open, deep water, heights, long hallways, abandonment, and I haven't gotten to see what is in the other rooms, but they may be fears I repress... It is a miserable, dread induced fear that I'll have to tackle these rooms one by miserable on to complete the movie... I have no idea what is on the other side.

Dr. Campbell, what about the "old hag" of Nova Scotia? .I've been working on her for a while given some of my own "dream" problems. I am not a theist so I find this mythological study of "her" more than interesting. She also comes up in Mormon mythology. The author of a book about her called, "The Terror that comes in the.Night," has many references to a library in Southern Utah. She is much like "Lillith" "Enlil" or "Lilitu" of the ancient traditions. Are you or your foundation students aware of her? Can you tell more and provide references? Thank you sir.

The "shocks" he is talking about- are they trauma? Trauma definition to me means what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us

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I love the fact that JC refused to play along with academia and pursue a PhD which he felt would limit his passions and knowledge. Exactly why I decided to skip the PhD

He is perfect

The link to the mythos series seems dead

This is Joe's chance to really love out his heroes journey. Sita

I see now where Christopher Nolan got his idea for Inception.

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The root of Luke Skywalker in the cave fighting himself as Vader.

How does one change the personal unconscious?

This King. Pepi called Phios of the Phiosians at Philae dwells in the tree of life with the morning star

We come from the Superconscious not the unconscious. We might be unaware of this but our nature is integration.

What is his accent? He reminds me so much of my great grandmother

Good dreams result in good outcomes

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Disjointed, hacked up, out of context bits and pieces of Campbell"s message? The world needs, for example, the full Moyer / Campbell interviews uncut, But this foumdation is instead hacking Campbell's core messages up into tiny little disjointed hacked up bits and pieces. They are doing that as teasers to commercially monetize Campbel's work. The very nature of Campell's works must remain freely available, intact, in context, and sui- generis on a "giving foot forward" monetization model, which primarily is not the JC Foundation monetization model. Does this greedy foundation have copyrights on these works? Why can't anyone post these works up on IE. You Tube etc. free uncut unedited? For instance the full uncut Campbel / Moyers series. Why is Moyer not acting to counter this outrage? How to obtain these works intact & unedited now like when Campbell was alive without profiteering? That would be Campbell's will. The Campbell Foundation, in the guise of proliferating Campbell's body of work, is instead fragmenting it for commercial monetary motives. So aggravating! Seriously any effort to keep Campbell's work free, and free of being hacked up, and free of being exploited by the world system, then count us in. Metaphorically speaking: God was out for a stroll one day with the devil following along & imitating God. God was carrying something "he" had picked up along the way. The devil runs up and asks. "whatcha got there God?" God replies, "I got the truth." The devil then says," give it to me & I will organize it for you!". JC Foundation you need to stop "money changing on the temple steps".

gratidao

Lord, beer me strength

growing years are very crucial and young mind is easily swayed persuaded even for things which they know are harmful as you grow older and are more self aware your capability to think for yourself.. i do not put much value in dreams, just disturbed sleeping minds electromagnetic waves interspersed with thoughts

Bats returning to the darkness

Icebergs of the mind

Luke entered the cave and encountered Vader. Vader is the embodiment of the Shadow, one's potential for "evil".

Interesting but not correct that we are totally unconscious of the shadow. For one thing, the easiest way to get to know your shadow is to investigate and develop your opposite personality traits.

When it is time to have orange juice the cyclical AMP will ring the Bell firmamently.

Damn! That was too short!

It’s like the Scientologist theory about the ingrams that need to be cleared.

Dark brain matter

Why is he sitting on a table?

Campbell makes Jung relevant

It could have been.

Hence the reason for the LBGTQ+ Movement in present day. Wonder what the future will bring, taylor designed AI’s?

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In some cultures the owl is seen as demonic and therefore evil. The cave is the darkness the abyss Hell Her clothes are burned and she is naked but she is not ashamed and is paid handsomely for shedding her inhibitions She does here Will and not Gods will

@@ It can be stressful and enjoyable to journey towards the truth, but results are positive because the good, the bad and the ugly belong to the concept. What we have today is a US NAT0 combination that intend to rule the world and charges protection money to some countries while threatening others. The human trafficking of migrants is being taken over at the Southern border by the Administration. This is the name of the game and Citizens and Nations adjust according to their awareness interests and level of conditioning. In industrial terms the main Mafioso are Europe, Russia, China, Canada and of course the USA. It would be irrealistic for China and America to go to war one against the other: the real opposition is Russia and Putin fall into the trap of attacking Ukraine giving a combined opportunities for Mafia servants and masters to use the chaos of warfare to their real or pseudo advantage.

No wonder we are confused with teachers who teach what they think, imagining they know.

Thanks to the Campbell Foundation, noone can see Joe for free anymore except ony minutes at a time, SHAME!

we were all certain it was a myth dream until she said she grew up in a cave and her step father was an owl trainer haha

I must say that over 40 years ago I read Hero and the Masks of God volumes and Campbell never once discussed any of the stories from the Old Testament. I know he was accused of being anti-Semitic and given the lack it is understandable. I understand that he was never known to have made any derogatory remarks about Jews, but nonetheless to omit such an important source of the Western canon from his discussions leads one to suspect his refusal to accept Judaism. I'm Jewish and non-religious and wholly secular. Nonetheless I don't like that Campbell never discussed anything Jewish.

Ego

Jordan Peterson and Joe would have been Best Friends! The woman- virgin, the abyss-cave, the dragon-owls and the gold!

The owls are not what they seem.

I'm counting on a fairy tale. In fact, my life depends on it. sCW

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