***Nearly ten hours capture Joseph Campbell's final lecture tour ***Includes biography & bibliography ***Hosted by Oscar winner Susan Sarandon ***After Joseph Campbell, we never thought of myths as just "stories" again... more ». He helped us understand that our traditional tales are evidence of our own nature and can be used to discover our identity. Shortly prior to his death in 1987, Campbell delivered a series of lectures that marked the culmination of six decades of discovery and groundbreaking analysis emphasizing a new perspective on "one great story" of humanity. These remarkable lectures were filmed and are presented here in order and manner in which Campbell himself intended, with enhanced images and in minimally edited form. Journey with the remarkable master storyteller Joseph Campbell as he explores how myths evolve to reflect changing beliefs about nature, God and life. The set includes 10 programs: (1) PSYCHE & SYMBOL - the psychological impulse for and response to myth; (2) THE SPIRIT LAND - how myths awakened American Indians to the mystery of life; (3) ON BEING HUMAN - the emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies; (4) FROM GODDESS TO GOD - the gradual shift from the Goddess to male, warlike deities; (5) THE MYSTICAL LIFE - Non-biblical mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit; (6) THE INWARD PATH - the core myths of the great Asian religions; (7) ENLIGHTENED ONE - the Buddha and enlightenment, East and West; (8) OUR ETERNAL SELVES - Yoga and transcendence; (9) THE WAY TO ILLUMINATION - Kundalini yoga and the seven chakras; (10) THE EXPERIENCE OF GOD - Tibetan Buddhism and the spiritual journey that is death. ***"The material of myth is the material of our life, the material of our body, and the material of our environment. A living, vital mythology deals with these... Myth comes from the same zone as dream... from the great biological ground, whatever it may be. They are energies and they are matters of consciousness" -Joseph Campbell« less