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MythBlast | There and Stuck Again: The Creative Darkness of the Soul
Writer’s Block by Isabelle Gallino (used through a Creative Commons license) Time and again, as artists and writers we come to a point in our development where that proverbial “block” on the road of...
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MythBlast | Political Matters
Campaign buttons photo by Russ Walker, 2010. Used under Creative Commons license. “Politics.” It is the word of the moment. One might even say it’s the word that exemplifies the age we live in. With a...
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MythBlast | Beyond the Moonshine
Moon Rising Over Craftsbury, by Bernard Lebleu. Craftsbbury, Vermont.2015. Used under Creative Commons license. “Get up!” Through his sleep, Freddy Bliss vaguely heard the agitated voice, but he was...
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MythBlast | Myth as Fictional Fabrication
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus. J. M. W. Turner, 1829. Creative Commons. Published by New World Library for the Joseph Campbell Foundation in 2012, Mythic Imagination: Collected Short Fiction witnesses...
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MythBlast | Strictly Platonic: The Clash Between Education and Sports
Spectators at Iowa football game, The University of Iowa, 1950s. Courtesy of the University of Iowa Libraries’ University Archives. In 2015, Time Magazine ran a piece exploring why student athletes...
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MythBlast | Separation, Initiation, and Return
The Hero’s Journey® (from Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Novato, Ca: New World Library, 2008), p. 210. Copyright © 2008 Joseph Campbell Foundation. The Hero’s Journey is a registered...
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MythBlast | Mythic Imagination: The In-Between
A door to a balcony overlooking the ocean at Castillo San Felipe del Morro. Taken by Flickr user Christopher V. San Juan, Puerto Rico. April 2012. Soul seeks a life that is not purely driven by ego...
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MythBlast | The Quest of Creative-Being Itself
“Flamenco.” Photography by Flavio Grynszpan, 2011. Used under Creative Commons license. It is easy to glamorize the gifts and benefits of artistic creativity, the unique sense of transcendence it...
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MythBlast | The Ancient Craft of the Beautiful
Isadora Duncan, c.1915. Photo by Arnold Genthe. In his book The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance, Joseph Campbell demonstrates not only his insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging, omnivorous mind,...
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MythBlast | The Grateful Dead, Adult Entertainment, and Native Tongues
Tie-dye by Lisa Ann Yount, 2007. Public Domain. Recently, I engaged in verbal combat with a friend over whether Joseph Campbell would have liked the TV show Game of Thrones. Imagining great thinkers...
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