Myths to Live By Audiobook (Free)

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“Now there’s no-one quite like Joseph Campbell. He understands the huge sweep of man’s breathtaking past as few men possess ever known it.” —The Community Voice

Joseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and soul: “a womb having a view.” In Myths to Live By, he examines every one of the ways in which myth supports and guides us, giving our lives meaning. Love and war, technology and religion, East and Western world, inner space and outer space—Campbell shows how the common myths we live by can reconcile all of these pairs of opposites and provide a feeling of the complete.

This classic continues to be newly annotated in its first new edition since its original publication. In the custom of THE ENERGY of Myth and Pathways to Bliss, Common myths to Live By remains one of Joseph Campbell’s most enduring, popular, and accessible works.