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Summary: an absolutely brilliant, intriguing book
Review: Campbell's ideas will make your head spin, and make you realize more of what shapes the world around you. He connects myth to just about every aspect of our lives.
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Summary: I question if Mr mje@mich.com actually read the book.
Review: I picked up this book because I wanted to know more about how mythology relates to the human mind, hoping that this would allow me to be a better storyteller. I haven't gotten through the entire book as of yet, but so far it is pretty good. As a note to somebody like the previous reviewer, it is obvious that he has missed the entire point of the book. There is much in this book about the conflict inside a person and the quest to understand it. If you get nothing else from this book, you should understand that life is about contribution. If you contribute to the general welfare of your nation and people, then you've lived a full life. How is that new age? I especially liked what Campbell had to say about the military in that one should judge the actions of its members, by the responsibility that its society presents to it. Society requires protection and security, and to do so it creates a military culture to protect it. To judge the military as a destructive force within a society because of the job that society requires it to preform, is ludicrous. As a masters student in anthropology and a former Marine, I think this book has something for all people... whether conservative, liberal, intellectual, or lay-person. I wonder if MR. mje@mich.com even read the book. Since he found it so disdainful, I doubt he could have.
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Summary: New Age Crap for the insecure
Review: Campbell is a virulently anti-Western culture intellectual lightweight who nontheless worships anything non-western tradition with an uncritical eye. Moyers is a failed minister and ex-PR flack to LBJ who is still trying to rewrite his own past. With Campbell as the putative sage and Moyers as his fawning acolyte, they put on a show that's a parody of Socratic dialogue.Together they deliver the kind of intellectually doubtful New Age pap that seems to be the stock and trade of PBS these days. This book panders to egotistical attitudes, celebrates moral relativism and the denial of personal responsibility and assures the readers that no matter what goes wrong in their life, they're not to blame. But that's what sells.
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Summary: Joseph Campbell shares wisdom of the ages
Review: This cassette series is great. It takes you beyond his popular quote "follow your bliss." To hear him speak adds so much more than just reading his words. He was a brilliant mind, but also quite playful and you'll hear it in this audio cassette series. You can play these cassettes over and over and take away a different piece of widsom each time. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A great resource for "seekers".
Review: If you are open to the concept of all religions being wrong in the details but right in the underlying principle, this book is for you. If you are close-minded and need to keep your foundation unshaken, leave this book alone.
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Summary: Metaphorical
Review: Joseph Campbell in this interview, exposes his broad knowledge of world's religions and pulls out passages from different sacred books. Some of the conclusion he gets too are comprehensible, yet others are a little foggy.
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Summary: Interesting and paradigmatic
Review: The book and the tapes on the power of myth are very interesting and interpret mythology and religion within the same paradigm and concepts - that myth flows from the contrary and contradictory stresses and strains of the body and society. The thesis is tightly explored by Campbell in numerous of his works and explains why he sometimes cannot explain (sorry) variations in conceptual problems among myths. Campbell had a tremendous impact on my study of comparative religion at university over 10 years ago, in a positive way, howver since then I've realized that his ideas are worn and flawed in many respects. Thinking outside of his parardigm of mythic evolution will raise many more questions than he attempts to answer. All in all I think Campbell is one of the greatest philosophers of comparative religion and mythology and someone who stood at a crossroads of academic insight over many decades.
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Summary: Interesting, Educational, Provocative, Truthful
Review: One of the best books I've ever read. Campbell's insights and interpretations supercede religious doctrines, while fully respecting them. The conversational style of the book makes it a quick read. Bill Moyers' role should not be overlooked. His preparation was impeccable. A great follow-up Campbell book might be "Transformations of Myth Through Time," (ISBN 0-06-096463-4) consisting of 13 lectures. Again, Campbell brings out the similarities among cultures brilliantly and positively.
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Summary: Begin the journey, read this book.
Review: You are not alone in your quest for understanding. The path has been taken by many before, there are stories and clues to help. This is the message of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. This book was my introduction to Mr. Cambell and helped to awaken my sense of wonder and hope. Take the journey.
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Summary: The message is what counts!
Review: This book summarizes myth and the reason behind myth! It's unforfunate that people would consider writings like this as being existential or overly pragmatic! Although it is in a sense, the power of myth is the most spiritual book that I have ever come across! You don't need to believe in an all-powerful supreme being who's gonna get ya if you don't follow his rules! Writings like this help you realize what's right and what's wrong in your heart! That's where all the answers are! People just aren't looking in there! This book is for everyone regardless of what you believe in!
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