Mythology and the Individual

Other by Joseph Campbell

Released November 1996

Tracklist

  • Digital Media 1: The Celebration of Life
  • 1
    The Awesome Mystery of Being
    5:00
  • 2
    Universal Motifs: Particular Differentiation
    2:09
  • 3
    Life Kills Other Life to Live
    2:50
  • 4
    The First Function of Mythology
    2:06
  • 5
    The Second Function of Mythology
    3:19
  • 6
    The Third Function of Mythology
    3:47
  • 7
    Heresy Is the Life of a Mythology
    1:30
  • 8
    The Fourth Function of Mythology
    3:18
  • 9
    An Australian Initiation Rite
    3:51
  • 10
    Adult Behavior and Changing Social Orders
    3:26
  • 11
    Old Age and Death
    3:36
  • 12
    Myths Give Inspiration for Aspiration
    2:05
  • 13
    The Animal World: Humankind’s First Inspiration
    2:33
  • 14
    Out of Death Comes Life: The Plant World as Inspiration
    2:08
  • 15
    As Above, So Below: The Cosmic Order as Inspiration
    5:23
  • 16
    The Mythology for Today: The Other as Inspiration
    3:24
  • 17
    Mythology’s Song: That’s Life
    3:01
  • Digital Media 2: The Individual in Oriental Mythology
  • 1
    The Three Orients
    2:02
  • 2
    Individual Identity in the Occident and Orient
    4:26
  • 3
    Are You Your Body?
    3:01
  • 4
    Eons Come and Go: The Round of Existence
    2:43
  • 5
    Living in Accord With the Cosmic Order
    3:03
  • 6
    Ego and Id in the Orient and Occident
    3:50
  • 7
    God in the Levantine Orient
    6:41
  • 8
    Europe and the Near East: A Summation
    1:19
  • 9
    The Humbling of Indra
    13:43
  • 10
    Letting Go: The Fierce Yoga of Jainism
    6:49
  • 11
    Living in the World: The Psychological Shift of Buddhism
    3:53
  • 12
    Renounce the World or Roll With It
    2:15
  • 13
    Zen: A Samurai Story
    3:21
  • Digital Media 3: Symbolism and the Individual
  • 1
    Oriental and Occidental Domains
    4:37
  • 2
    Social Organization in Agricultural Communities
    4:28
  • 3
    Royal Burials
    3:17
  • 4
    The Great Cosmic Law
    3:38
  • 5
    The Split Being: Two Contrasting Myths
    4:21
  • 6
    The Story of the Buddha’s Realization
    4:25
  • 7
    The Freudian Ego: A Negative Power in the Orient
    3:11
  • 8
    Job’s Submission and Prometheus’ Humanism
    5:53
  • 9
    Christ Crucified: A Synthesis of Job and Prometheus
    3:46
  • 10
    Nietzsche’s Superman
    2:01
  • 11
    Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kroger
    3:11
  • 12
    Individual Uniqueness: The Gift of the West
    2:29
  • Digital Media 4: New Horizons
  • 1
    Myth vs. History: A Story at the Lunch Counter
    5:00
  • 2
    Dissolution of the Medieval World Image
    9:11
  • 3
    Smashing the Old World History
    7:57
  • 4
    Society’s Choice: Tradition or Truth
    2:07
  • 5
    Psychology and the Shifting Attitude Toward Myth
    3:20
  • 6
    The Impact of Science on Myth
    4:00
  • 7
    Science: The Continual Quest
    2:57
  • 8
    Myths Integrate Individuals Into the Group
    3:44
  • 9
    Birth and Rebirth: Myth and Individual Development
    5:19
  • 10
    Myths Work as Poetry
    2:52
  • 11
    No Death: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunting Cultures
    4:12
  • 12
    Life Through Death: Mythologies of the Primitive Planting Cultures
    3:28
  • 13
    Cosmic Harmony: Mythologies of the First Cities
    3:45
  • 14
    Man’s City: Mythologies of the Humanistic West
    2:17
  • 15
    Separation of the Social and the Spiritual
    3:23
  • 16
    No Horizons: The Mythic Enterprise of Today
    2:33
  • Digital Media 5: The Vitality of Myth
  • 1
    What Myth Do I Live By?
    3:14
  • 2
    Biblical Mythologies: Metaphor Interpreted as Historical Fact
    3:02
  • 3
    Carl Jung and the Mythic Imagery of Dreams
    2:58
  • 4
    The Moonwalk as a Mythological Event
    3:45
  • 5
    One World: You Are the Source and Creator of the Gods
    3:48
  • 6
    Jungian Psychology: Personal Fantasies: Mythic Images
    2:07
  • 7
    Myth’s Dimensions: The Inner and Outer Garments
    5:10
  • 8
    Mythologies Shape Civilizations
    7:43
  • 9
    Myth as Make Believe
    3:58
  • 10
    The Word Aum: The Sound of the Universe
    1:07
  • 11
    The Letter ’A’: Waking Consciousness
    1:10
  • 12
    The Letter ’U’: Dream Consciousness
    5:27
  • 13
    The Letter ’M’: Dreamless Sleep
    0:38
  • 14
    The Silence Surrounding the Syllable
    2:35
  • 15
    Stanislav Grof and the Levels of LSD Experience
    4:36
  • 16
    The Four Stages of the Birth Experience
    3:22
  • 17
    The Stages of Birth as Mythic Moods
    3:14
  • 18
    The Final Stages: Rapture and the Ground of Being
    2:04

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Release credits

  • spoken vocals [1.1-3, 1.3-8, 1.8-17, 4.1-16, 2.1-13, 3.1-12, 5.1-18]
  • additional [4.1, 2.1, 5.1, 3.1, 1.1, 1.17], spoken vocals [3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 1.1, 1.17, 2.1]

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