Joseph Campbell discusses bliss and nirvana and his ideas about mythology and its ongoing role in human society. These talks are based on Campbell's seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
The interviews between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers that became a famous television series. It deals with the universality and evolution of myths in the history of the human race and the place of myths in modern society. Campbell blends accounts of his own upbringing and experience with stories from many cultures and civilizations to present the reader with his most compelling thesis that modern society is going through a transition from the old mythologies and traditions to a new way of thinking where a global mythology will emerge.
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