..."A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man..." -Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Table of Contents
- Great Stuff on Amazon
- The Hero's Journey
- The Hero's Journey
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988)
- Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey (1997)
- Joseph Campbell: Mythos I (1996)
- Joseph Campbell - Mythos II (1997)
- Load Up Joseph Campbell Documentaries into Your Netflix Queue
- Links for Writers
- Links for Writers
- Writing Del.icio.us bookmarks
- Star Wars Merchandise
- New Guestbook
Great Stuff on Amazon
The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition
Amazon Price: (as of 12/28/2009) 
Archetypes for Writers: Using the Power of Your Subconscious
Amazon Price: $17.21 (as of 12/28/2009)
The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines
Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 12/28/2009)
45 Master Characters
Amazon Price: (as of 12/28/2009)
The Hero's Journey
Blog Posts from Google
- the 12 stages of the heros journey « the things worth believing in
- The Magic Flight: Sometimes the hero must escape with the boon, if it is something that the gods have been jealously guarding. It can be just as adventurous and dangerous returning from the journey as it was to go on it. ...
- The Heroine Completes Her Hero's Journey
- I hope these few posts on Pride and Prejudice have shown how the Hero's Journey has worked through this story. I am a true believer that stories are tied to our individual psychologies and our own paths along the Mythic Hero's Journey.
- The Raw Mocha Angel: Step One on Your Raw Food Journey
- Step One on Your Raw Food Journey. 1. Manifest the Life That You Want by Proclaiming it in the NOW. Inspired by The Hero's Journey (photos are of famous, recognizable characters on their own journeys). Becoming a raw vegan requires ...
- Barack Obama's Mythic Hero Image: an Appraisal | Barack Obama ...
- Conclusions: Barack Obama's story and image fits quite well with Campbell's ?Hero's Journey? pattern, even if it does not flow in a linear fashion as Campbell designed it. This is, after all, natural: Campbell was disecting single-story ...
The Hero's Journey
The Hero's Journey
I did this for a 9th grade English project on Joseph Campbell's theory of the Hero's Journey. The requirements were references to all the various "elements" of it, as well as the three hero stories we studied: The Odyssey, The Matrix, and the story of Aron Ralston.
Runtime: 839
8678 views
8 Comments:
curated content from YouTube
Documentaries on DVD
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988)
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
Amazon Price: (as of 12/28/2009)
List Price: $26.95
Used Price: $98.90
Avg. Customer Rating: 
Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey (1997)
Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey
Amazon Price: $17.49 (as of 12/28/2009)
List Price: $19.99
Used Price: $13.49
"And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of the Hero's Journey." -Joseph Campbell
Avg. Customer Rating: 
Usually ships in 24 hours
Joseph Campbell: Mythos I (1996)
The Programs
1. Psyche and Symbol -- The psychological impulse for and response to myth.
2. The Spirit Land -- How myths awakened American Indians to the mystery of life.
3. On Being Human -- The emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies.
4. From Goddess to God -- The gradual shift from the Goddess to male, warlike deities.
5. The Mystical Life -- Non-biblical mythic strains hat helped shape the Western spirit.
Joseph Campbell: Mythos I
Amazon Price: $35.99 (as of 12/28/2009)
List Price: $39.99
Used Price: $26.00
"The material of myth is the material of our life, the material of our body, and the material of our environment. A living, vital mythology deals with these." -- Joseph Campbell
Avg. Customer Rating: 
Usually ships in 24 hours
Joseph Campbell - Mythos II (1997)
1. The Inward Path-The core myths of the great Asian religions.
2. Enlightened One-The Buddha and enlightenment, East and West.
3. Our Eternal Selves-Yoga and transcendence.
4. The Way to Illumination-Kundalini yoga and the seven chakras.
5. The Experience of God-Tibetan Buddhism and the spiritual journey that is death.
Joseph Campbell - Mythos II
Amazon Price: $37.49 (as of 12/28/2009)
List Price: $39.99
Used Price: $23.07
"Myth comes from the same zone as dream... from the great biological ground, whatever it may be. They are energies and they are matters of consciousness." -- Joseph Campbell
Avg. Customer Rating:
Usually ships in 24 hours
Load Up Joseph Campbell Documentaries into Your Netflix Queue
Netflix does offer most of the Joseph Campbell selections featured above!
- 001- An Inconvenient Truth
Director-producer Davis Guggenheim (HBO's "Deadwood") captures former Vice President Al Gore in the...- 002- March of the Penguins
Award-winning photographer Luc Jacquet takes documentary film to new heights -- and depths -- with h...- 003- Super Size Me
On the heels of recent lawsuits against McDonald's, director Morgan Spurlock takes a hilarious and o...- 004- Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore's hard-hitting documentary addresses the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, outl...- 005- Born Into Brothels
British filmmaker Zana Briski's Oscar-winning documentary is a portrait of several unforgettable chi...- Try Netflix free for 14 days
Links for Writers
Must see Sites with information about the Hero's Journey, writing, and characterization.
Links for Writers
- Villa in Tuscany - The Hero's Journey
- A romance writer named Rene has a blog where she posted an article she wrote for her RWA newsletter.
- Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
- A blog post discussing the History Channel's special Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed. George Lucas utilized ideas in the Hero's Journey when writing the Star Wars series. In this blog post I linked to some of the guest speaker's Web sites, and their books.
- Hero's Journey for Romance Writers
- A PDF file of author Colleen Gleason's April 2006 article in Romance Writer's Report.
- Star Wars Origins - Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey
- This page shows examples of each stage of a Hero's Journey in Star Wars and The Matrix.
- The Monomyth Cycle
- Pictures and examples of the Hero's Journey.
Writing Del.icio.us bookmarks
- 10 Tips for Creating Compelling Web Copy | Web Design Ledger
- Fourteen Interesting Ways to Support Writing in the Classroom
- EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
- PBS | Ombudsman | Lehrer's Rules
- How to Write Great Content for Your Blog In the New Year
- Welcome - Ommwriter
- Junta42 Content Marketing blog: What’s Your Blog’s Take-Away?
- The Art of the List : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum
- Self Publishing - Lulu.com
- Editorial Style Guides | Konigi
- Scribd
- Literature and Latte - Scrivener
Star Wars Merchandise
by AnnaleeBlysse
I'm a romance author and digital artist and photographer and now lensmaster. You can also find me on the WWW at my main site, zazzle,and my blog....
(more)Explore related pages
Ancient Greece Odyssey: Temple of Apollo at Delphi- We journey now to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, where the Delphic Orac...
Man and His Symbols by Carl G. Jung- "Man and His Symbols" came about as the result of one of the great psychologist'...
Joseph Campbell- Joseph Campbell was one of the most brilliant scholars in America studying and t...
Mystical, Magical Beadwork- Presented here is an array of some of my favorite web resources on beadwork that...
Harry Potter Books: Mythology, Magic and Muggles- By opening the door to mythology and stories rich in symbolism, we introduce a f...
The Prose Edda- Snorri Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda as a guide for Icelandic poets so they wou...
