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Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation

Joseph Campbell

Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
Author	:	Joseph Campbell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	October 26th 2004 by New World Library (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Mythology. Psychology. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Spirituality. Religion

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Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people's religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment — or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic best-selling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from Campbell's popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable storytelling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Here he anchors mythology's symbolic wisdom to the individual, applying the most poetic mythical metaphors to the challenges of our daily lives. Campbell dwells on life's important questions. Combining cross-cultural stories with the teachings of modern psychology, he examines the ways in which our myths shape and enrich our lives and shows how myth can help each of us truly identify and follow our bliss.

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Original Title:	Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
ISBN:	1577314719 (ISBN13: 9781577314714)
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I love Joseph Campbell books. My mom was nice enough to let me steal this book from her even though she was less than half way through it. I love moms. I think his stuff is a great tool from something we have been losing touch with for a long time, at an exponentially increasing rate. When the modern world has you lost, pick up a campbell book.

Joseph Campbell. Need I say more?

The introduction and first chapter about bliss were....blissful - really, sublime. The two chapters on Jung and developing one's own personal myth were....my own story, my own thoughts put into words. Campbell's thoughts really are an extention of Jung's - his conclusions brought to their ultimate destination. A very good read for those interested in "getting into Campbell-ian and Jungian thought. Highly reccomended."

A life-changing read. This isn't Campbell's magnum opus, but this book puts the purpose of life, religion and the mythic path under glaring illumination. Still, Campbell's wit and gentle prose is enough to "hold the reader's hand" as he leads him down the path to enlightenment.

The ninth book in the ongoing series, The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this is the one that focuses on my favorite Campbellism: Follow your bliss.More importantly, this book gathers together all of his lectures that talked abut the pathway to bliss.As always, after reading Campbell, I feel a renewed vigor and drive to get back onto the pathway. . .--From A Reader's Journal, by d r melbie.

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path. The basic story of the hero journey involves giving up where you are, going into the realm of adventure, coming to some kind of symbolically rendered realization, and then returning to the field of normal life.The scientist knows that at any

Joseph Campbells work never ceases to amaze me. I could listen to him talk for hours upon hours and never get bored, and thats always been the quality of his books.