Finding Joe Presentation

1. Finding Joe
Joseph Campbell

2. • Mythology expert
• Philosopher
• Native american mythology
• Aboriginal cultures
• Greek mythology: Arthurian legend
• Philosophies
• Mythic stories
• Movies
• Novels
• Romances
• Religion
Once upon a time…
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - 1949

3. What is the Hero’s
Journey?

4. The greatest crisis in which you
find your true self
• Heroes
• Villains
• Gods
• Goddesses
• Fantastic
creatures
• Star Wars
• The Matrix
• Harry Potter
• Wizard of Oz
• Alice in Wonderland
• Batman Begins
• The Lord of the Rings
• Superman
• Iron Man
It’s time for you to do that !
Mythology = metaphor for
human existence

5. a call to adventure

6. We are all golden
Buddhas!

7. • High
• Knowing
• Connected to our
bliss
• Knowing truth
• Knowing everything
that every great
spiritual master has
ever said
• Injury
• Divorce
• Financial setbacks
• Governmental
change

8. Why isn’t it that
everybody is living it?

9. • Trance of comfort
• Trance of not sticking your hand up above the crowd very much

10. • “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are
looking for the experience of being alive”
• “The universe will open doors where there were only walls”
• “The function of mythological symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes. I know
what it is, it’s myself”
• “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that
is waiting for us”
• “Follow your bliss”
• “Opportunities to find deeper power within ourselves come when life seems most
challenging”
• “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you
stumble, there lies your treasure.”
• “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself”
Joseph Campbell
Let’s debate!

11. Inspiration

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Joseph Campbell