Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

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  • Premiered: Jun 1988
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Documentary Mini-series

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Season 1
1x1
The Hero's Adventure
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Air date
Jun 21, 1988
About Campbell, hero types, hero deeds, Jesus Christ, the Buddha, movie heroes, Star Wars as a metaphor, an Iroquois story: the refusal of suitors, dragons, dreams and Jungian .. show full overview
1x2
The Message of the Myth
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Jun 22, 1988
Creation myths, transcending duality, pairs of opposites, God vs. Nature, sin, morality, participation in sorrow, the Gospel of Thomas, Old Time Religion, computers, religion as .. show full overview
1x3
The First Storytellers
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Jun 23, 1988
Animal memories, harmonization with body and life-cycle, consciousness vs. its vehicle, killing for food, story: “The Buffalo's Wife,” buffalo massacre, initiation ritual, rituals .. show full overview
1x4
Sacrifice and Bliss
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Jun 24, 1988
Chief Seattle, the sacred Earth, agricultural renewal, human sacrifice, sacrifice of the Mass, transcendence of death, story: “The Green Knight,” societal dictates vs. following bliss, “hidden hands” guiding life's work
1x5
Love and the Goddess
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Jun 25, 1988
The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, the Goddess, the Earth-mother, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang
1x6 Show finale
Masks of Eternity
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Jun 26, 1988
Identifying with the infinite, the circle as a symbol, clowns and masks, epiphanies and James Joyce, artistic arrest, the monstrous as sublime, the dance of Shiva, that which is beyond words

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