What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern
anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live by, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal
myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate
present, retuning always to the source from which all mythology springs: the creative imagination.
Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the Earth have been shattered; that myths and religions have always
followed the certain basic archetypes and are no longer exclusive to a single people, region, or religion. He shows
how we must recognize their common denominators and allow this knowledge to be of use in fulfilling human potential
everywhere.
Table of Contents
Foreword Johnson E. Fairchild
Preface
The Impact of Science on Myth
The Emergence of Mankind
The Importance of Rites
The Separation of East and West
The Confrontation of East and West in Religion
The Inspiration of Oriental Art
Zen
The Mythology of Love
Mythologies of War and Peace
Schizophrenia---the Inward Journey
The Moon Walk---the Outward Journey
Envoy: No More Horizons
