Now Available!

At long last, after the long, night-sea journey, the whole of Mythos is complete and available for the first time!

Filmed over the last years of his life, Mythos captures Joseph Campbell's final series of public talks, his retelling of humankind's "one great story." With the release of this third volume, the entire series will be seen for the first time as Campbell delivered them, and as he intended them to be seen. Once again, the programs are hosted by Oscar®-award winner Susan Sarandon.

In Mythos I: The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition, Campbell began by looking at the world's most ancient myths and symbols, from the evolution of human consciousness to the prehistoric hunting plains to the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and the classical world.

In Mythos II: The Shaping of the Eastern Tradition, he went on to explore these basic elements as they have expressed themselves in the great religions and philosophies of Asia.

Now, in Mythos III: The Shaping of the Western Tradition, he moves on to exploring these same mythological motifs as they have expressed themselves in Western culture. Where the emphasis in the previous programs has been on the evolution of the human species and cultures, now Campbell focusses on the artists, writers and thinkers who have had such a huge impact on the culture of the modern West.

Over half of this series is made up of material that has never been released in any form.

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MYTHOS I - The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition
280 min. (approx)

"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

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 that helped shape the Western spirit.

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MYTHOS II - The Shaping of the Eastern Tradition
282 min.

"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

The Programs
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.


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MYTHOS III - The Shaping of the Western Tradition
285 min.

"[Western myths] represented something that is typical to Europe and nowhere else, and that is respect for the individual and the individual path, the individual way." --Joseph Campbell

The Programs
1. Love as the Guide--The Arthurian romances, including Tristan and Iseult.

2. The Path of the Heart--Parzival and the Grail Quest.

3. Beyond Time and Space--The Romantic philosophers.

4. Between Pairs of Opposites--Thomas Mann and The Magic Mountain.

5. Into the Well of Myth--The Joseph novels and modern myth.