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Title	:	The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Worksl)
Author	:	Joseph Campbell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	January 9th 2002 by New World Library (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Mythology. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Religion. Psychology

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Worksl)

Joseph Campbell

Hardcover | Pages: 160 pages

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Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell s last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure.""

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Original Title:	The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
ISBN:	1577312090 (ISBN13: 9781577312093)
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I first read this book, finally, in 1997, a mere eleven years after it was published. I only wish that I had stumbled upon this book the year it was published; how different my life would be if that had occurred. But alas, I have had to read it again and I really love this book. It is now published as a hardcover and it is Joseph's last "little book.' A marvelous work. --From A Reader's Journal, by d r melbie.

This was not my favorite Campbell book regarding Mythology and its role in "current" society. Except for the last chapter, "The Way of Art", which I would give four stars. Overall the book felt like a repeat of his other works. I would say that if you read "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and "The Mythic Dimension" you would not necessarily gain anything from this book. Also, I believe that the interviews with Bill Moyers do a better job of taking Campbell's work into the present.

What I find fascinating is how the same stories get interpreted so many different ways, and always just as convincingly - yet surely they can't mean all those things, at once? This was one of those books. My only trouble with it is that I read it at the tail end of a long series of other books making those different interpretations - and I'm afraid I burnt out a little by the time I got to this one. There wasn't enough about it that was significantly different to sustain my attention. Still, if

Really enjoyed the final chapter: The Way of Art. That chapter is the primary reason I wanted to read the book and I'd give that 5 stars. The rest, however, didn't feel well put together and was difficult to get through because of that.

Particularly brilliant on kundalini, even showing depictions of it in early Christian iconography in Ireland.

[Closer to 2.5 stars]This was my first foray in Joseph Campbell's work, and it was a pretty uneven read overall. There were some things in here I honestly liked a lot though, focusing on attempting to rebuild myths deconstructed by modern science and multiculturalism by grounding ourselves in timeless yet inarticulable truths, and creating myth as a way of wrapping transcendent experience in something comprehensible. The way he argued for it though was... less than convincing. We had a lot of

In the Inner Reaches of Outer Space many myths and symbols are explored. There are references to Vedic, Greco- Roman, Indigenous (Black Elk speaking) and Knowledge from psychologists Freud and Jung to list a few. I enjoyed the reference to these various things as it reminded me of how influential Joseph Campbell has been to me and many other in the 1980s, and even today, in opening our minds to comparing different philosophies from Europe, India and North America. I reflected many times in