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DANCING WITH JOSEPH CAMPBELL

MARCH 21—26, 2004

A CENTENARY CELEBRATION BENEFIT FOR ESALEN INSTITUTE

“The heroic life is living the individual adventure.”

PROGRAM INDEX

1 WELCOME

2-7 DAILY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

8 FILM SCHEDULE

9-13 PRESENTER BIOS

13-16 TRIBUTES TO JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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Dear Friends,

It is with great pleasure I welcome you to Esalen for this very special centenary celebration honoring the life and work of Joseph Campbell.

We are honored the Joseph Campbell Foundation has recognized that Esalen held a very special place in Joe Campbell’s heart, and are offering this centenary event as a benefi t for Esalen.

Bob Walter’s and his team have worked very hard to bring you an outstanding program, one Joe would be proud of! Our thanks to all the presenters who are here to support Joe and Esalen Institute, and our thanks to you for supporting this special occasion.

Best wishes,

Andy Nusbaum.

Executive DirectorEsalen institute

My friends,

On behalf of the Joseph Campbell Foundation I want to welcome everyone to what promises to be a “once in a lifetime event,” or, incontrovertibly, a “once-in-a-century celebration.”

Given the impact that Joe’s scholarship has had on contemporary arts and culture, it is sometimes hard for me to believe that when I began working with him some twenty-fi ve short years ago, we were unable to fi nd a publisher who was willing to print his books. In those days, while facing continuous literary rejection, Joe continued to craft his redaction of “humankind’s One Great Story,” ever optimistic and confi dent that “if my work enables one person to live a more enriched and fulfi lling life, it will have all been worth it.”

Looking back, I think it safe to say that, for all the wisdom Joe has imparted, little did he know how many lives he would, in fact, transform.

I want to thank Joe’s friends and my colleagues who have given of their time and creativity to make this unique event possible. I also want to thank everyone at Esalen for enfolding Joe and all of us in such a warm and hospitable embrace. And, fi nally, I want to thank each one of you for taking time from your busy life to gather with us to celebrate the centennial of Joseph Campbell, arguably one of the most informed and informative, focused yet eclectic, intellects of the twentieth century.

Enjoy.

Bob WalterPresident / Executive DirectorJoseph Campbell Foundation

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Bob

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A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, MARCH 21—26, 2004

SUNDAY, MARCH 21

WELCOME

ARRIVALS

2:00 PM CHECK IN

4:00 PM ROOMS AVAILABLE

5:00-6:00 PM COCKTAIL GREETINGS

6:00–7:30 PM DINNER

7:45–8:15 PM INTRODUCTION TO ESALEN

8:30–10:30 PM OPENING CELEBRATION

WELCOME TO OUR LAND: Indigenous Blessing (on Lawn outside Huxley)

FIRELIGHT PROCESSIONAL TO DANCE DOME: Welcome from Esalen Staff

CELEBRATING JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Stories/Anecdotes/Memories (in Dance Dome)

A PREVIEW OF THE WEEK’S ACTIVITIES

10:30–10:50 PM OUR PLANET EARTH a fi lm by Mickey Lemle

Our Planet Earth, produced for the United Nations, is a love poem to our home by those who have seen it from space. Seventeen astronauts and cosmonauts from 10 countries share their experiences and insights in the hope that all humanity will see the wonder and fragility of our planet, as they have, from beyond political and geographical boundaries.

ON-GOING ACTIVITIES ALL WEEK

ART BARN: Making Masks and Prayer Flags Gerald McDermott

MEDIA ROOM Film & Video Screenings Jasmine Kazarian: Schedule TBA

EVERYWHERE Musical Interludes David Darling, Paul Horn, Terry Lupton

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MONDAY, MARCH 22

MYTH AND THE BODY

8:30–9:45 AM BREAKFAST

10:00–10:10 AM GOOD MORNING David Darling, Paul Horn, Chungliang Al Huang (in Dance Dome)

10:10–12:00 AM A CONVERSATION OF A HIGHER ORDER Steve Aizenstat, host; Rebecca Armstrong; Maren Hansen; Chungliang Al Huang (in Dance Dome)

12:30–1:45 PM LUNCH

2:00–3:45 PM FUN & GAMES Bob Walter & Lynne Kaufman (in Big Yurt)

4:00–6:00 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Dream, Myth, and Body Steve Aizenstat (in Dance Dome)

The Mything Body (workshop) Rebecca Armstrong (in Little House)

Mother Mysteries: Myths of Embodiment Maren Hansen (in Big House )

MythBody to Live By (workshop) Chungliang Al Huang (in Huxley)


EVENING CELEBRATION (in Dance Dome)

8:00–8:30 PM REVIEWING THE DAY 8:30–10:00 PM HEROIC WOMEN - A musical performance by Susannah Self & Michael Christie

10:00–10:15 PM PREVIEWING TOMORROW

10:30–12:00 PM RAM DASS FIERCE GRACE A fi lm by Mickey Lemle (in Huxley)

This documentary feature fi lm is a portrait of Ram Dass, the highly infl uential author of the 70s classic, Be Here Now—a book that changed the lives of millions and set a whole generation on a quest for expanded consciousness and meaningful spirituality. By tracing the life journey of this extraordinary and controversial author / seeker / teacher, the fi lm also explores the evolution of the movement Ram Dass helped to create—from the counter-culture’s experimentation with psychedelic drugs to the evolving and now widespread embrace of Eastern religion, mediation, yoga, environmental awareness, social activism, and alternative healing.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 23

MYTH AND THE SOUL



10:10–12:00 AM A CONVERSATION OF A HIGHER ORDER Brother David Steindl-Rast, host; Angeles Arrien; Phil Cousineau, Mickey Lemle (in Dance Dome)

12:30–1:45 PM LUNCH 2:00–3:45 PM FUN & GAMES Bob Walter & Lynne Kaufman (in Big Yurt)


SACRED PORTALS: Myths, Symbols & Archetypes Angeles Arrien (in Big Yurt)

THE SOUL OF MYTH Phil Cousineau (in Little House)

MYTH AND THE SOUL Brother David Steindl-Rast (in Dance Dome)

ZEN & THE ART OF FILM-MAKING Mickey Lemle (in Huxley)



8:00–8:30 PM REVIEWING THE DAY

8:30–9:30 PM BEOWULF a performance by Charlie Bethel


10:00–11:00 PM COMPASSION IN EXILE A fi lm by Mickey Lemle (in Huxley)

Compassion in Exile is an intimate portrait of Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Inherent in the story of this 1989 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is the plight of the Tibetan people, and the brutal genocide they have endured since the Communist Chinese invasion in 1950. For this timely fi lm, the Dalai Lama personally granted unprecedented access and cooperation. Many Tibetans who were imprisoned, tortured, and forced into exile by the Chinese bear witness to their ordeals. Historic and present-day footage open the mystery of Tibet and can tell the story of this great and inspiring teacher.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

MYTH AND THE ARTIST



10:10–12:00 AM A CONVERSATION OF A HIGHER ORDER (in Dance Dome)

Gerald McDermott, host; John Cleese; David Darling; Paul Horn & special guest, Jean Erdman Campbell

12:30–1:45 PM LUNCH



REMINISCENCES Jean Erdman Campbell in conversation with

Lynne Kaufman & Bob Walter (in Dance Dome)

FINDING YOUR LONG-LOST MUSICIAN David Darling (in Huxley)

MUSIC the Fundamental Substance of Creation Paul Horn (in Big Yurt)

MURAL MAGIC (Workshop) Gerald McDermott (in Art Barn)




8:30–9:00 PM A VIDEO TRIBUTE TO JEAN ERDMAN CAMPBELL

9:00–10:00 PM CONCERT David Darling, Paul Horn, Chungliang Al Huang, Terry Lupton


10:30–12:00 PM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON A fi lm by Mickey Lemle (in Huxley)

Dedicated to Joseph Campbell, The Other Side of the Moon features eight Apollo astronauts who share intimately their experience of going to the moon and the effect of that journey on their lives since returning to Earth. Rigorously trained as scientists and test pilots, these explorers found that the trip to the moon led them on a more signifi cant inward journey.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 25

MYTH AND THE FUTURE



10:10–12:00 AM A CONVERSATION OF A HIGHER ORDER (in Dance Dome)

Richard Tarnas, host; Stan Grof, Sam Keen; Michael Murphy

12:30–1:45 PM LUNCH



THE DARK SIDE OF MYTH Sam Keen (in Dance Dome)

PREFIGURATIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN ATTRIBUTES IN FANTASY

Literature, Cartoons, Movies & Science Fiction Michael Murphy (in Big

House)

THE MYTH OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Richard Tarnas (in Little House)

THE RELEVANCE OF MYTHOLOGY FOR MODERN SOCIETY Stan Grof

(in Big Yurt)




8:30–9:15 PM FUN & GAMES a performance by the Not-Ready-for-Mythic-Time players


9:45– MASKED REVEL (admission “by Mask” only) Dance Until You Drop (in Huxley)

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FRIDAY, MARCH 26

CLOSING CELEBRATION



9:40–11:30 AM AND IN THE END… (in Dance Dome)

JOSEPH CAMPBELL “Happy Birthday”

REFLECTIONS/REMINISCENCES in Small Groups

CLOSING RITUAL

RECESSIONAL with Prayer Flags

12:30–1:45 PM LUNCH

DEPARTURES

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

REBECCA ARMSTRONG has been sharing her love of myth, music and ministry for almost three decades. Brought up in a singing family, she learned the traditions from the fi ngers and voices of those who kept them alive. Her parents, George and Gerry Armstrong, were referred to as “the mom and pop” of Chicago folk

music. Their home was a frequent stopping place for bards traveling through the Midwest, including Joseph Campbell, who became a close family friend.

STEPHEN AIZENSTAT, PH.D., is the founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute, and a clinical psychologist. His original research centers on a psychodynamic process of “tending the living image.” Recently, he brought the insights of depth psychology

and dreamwork to the Earth Charter International Workshop in The Hague, and continues to participate in this ongoing United Nations project. He has conducted dreamwork seminars for over 25 years throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. (1997).

ANGELES ARRIEN is an anthropologist, educator, award-winning author, and corporate consultant. She teaches universal components of leadership skills, communication, healthcare, and education. She is the founder and president of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research, and a

Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. www.angelesarrien.com

CHARLIE BETHEL is an actor/writer based in Minneapolis and has worked in theater, fi lm, and TV as an actor, stage manager, electrician, producer, and properties and set dressing artist. His one-man rendering of Beowulf was written in 1991 in Chicago.

After about 7 years rehearsing, it premiered at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis in 2001 and since then has played various venues: Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences (Charleston, WV), Raven Theater (Chicago), Cincinnati Playhouse, and a couple of Fringe Festivals. Upcoming gig: Cape May Stage, Spring, 04. A native Southerner, Charlie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and the South Carolina Governor’s School, and he comes from a long line of talkers.

Dancer, choreographer and director JEAN ERDMAN CAMPBELL occupies a unique position in twentieth century performing arts, and her genius for distilling human experience intoabstractform influences

American Modern Dance to this day. A soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company from 1938 to 1943, she created many roles in the reparatory of that historic period. Later, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Maya Deren and other distinguished artists were among her collaborators. Her most intimate collaboration, that with her husband, Joseph Campbell, led to the embrace of the mythological dimension of her work. Turning her attention to theater in the 1960’s,Jean created The Coach With the Six Insides, a revolutionary work that combined elements of all the performing and visual arts - dubbed “total theater” by the Paris press. The work, based on James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, enjoyed two New York seasons, received Obie and Vernon Rice Awards and then toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. Together with Joe, Jean founded the Theater of the Open Eye as a home for collaborative dance-based theater works of a mytho-poetic nature. As artistic director of the theater for 15 years, she created and /or presented more than 100 productions. In 1985, she was commissioned jointly by the governments of Greece and the U.S. to create an evening of total-theater for the Athens Festival of Myth and Man Symposium at the ancient Herodes Atticus Amphitheater. The same year, she staged a major retrospective of her work which was acclaimed by The New York Times, saying, “Anyone seeking to fi nd out something about where Modern Dance is today, might well fi nd its roots in the Jean Erdman Retrospective.” In 1994, Dance & Myth, The World of Jean Erdman, became available to the public. A video series in three parts, it preserves eleven ofher works and is intercut with interviews as well as archival and contemporary rehearsal footage.

DANCING WITH JOSEPH CAMPBELLA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, MARCH 21—26, 2004

PRESENTERS

Through her own travels as a performer and minister, and by her working association with the Joseph Campbell Foundation since its inception, Rebecca has continued to gather great minds and hearts together in creative collaborations all over the world. Rebecca holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Unitarian seminary and has a public ministry in Chicago with a focus on pilgrimage. Visit her websites at: www.ritualarts.com and www.citysoul.net

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JOHN CLEESE is best known for his contributions to the world of comedy, through Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, A Fish Called Wanda, and many appearances on programs like Cheers, Third Rock from the Sun, and Will and Grace. Less well known is the fact that he

co-authored two best-selling books on psychology: Families and How to Survive Them, and Life and How to Survive It. He also spent twenty years helping to run Video Arts, which was the largest producer of management and sales training fi lms outside the United States. In his twilight years he passes his time writing fi lm scripts, making speeches to business audiences, doing seminars on creativity, teaching at Cornell and UCSB, playing “Q” in the Bond movies, and trying to grow a decent tomato.

PHIL COUSINEAU is a writer, fi lm mak er, worldwide lecturer and adventure travel guide. He co-wrote The Hero’s Journey, the documentary fi lm about Joseph Campbell’s life, and edited its com pan ion book. He is the author of 17 books, in clud ing the recent The

Olympic Odyssey: Rekindling the Spirit of the An-cient Games, which has been selected by the United States Olympic Committee as a gift book for American athletes at the 2004 Summer Games. He is also the author of the best-selling Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Mod ern Times, The Art of Pil grim age, and The Book of Roads. Among his many fi lm credits are: Eco log i cal Design: Inventing the Future; Wayfi nders: A Pacifi c Odyssey; The Peyote Road; Forever Activists: Sto ries from the Abraham

Grammy nominated Cellist and Composer DAVID DARLING has been presenting seminars in music creativity and improvisation for over 30 years. His workshops are humorous, relaxed, and exhilarating. He is founder of Music For People, which has

presented his philosophy for the past 18 years in international settings. He was awarded Artist of The Year for his services to young people by the national award-winning organization, Young Audiences. The Connecticut Music Educators Association presented him with Outstanding Music Advocate Award. He tours internationally as a soloist and has recorded many award winning projects. He currently is working on a number of fi lm scores and solo projects and will tour England in May with performers from the Bunon Tribe of Taiwan.

STANISLAV GROF, M.D., PH.D., is one of the most recognized and authoritative fi gures in transpersonal psychology and consciousness research. He was formerly assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research

Center, and scholar-in-residence at Esalen in Big Sur, California, from 1973 to 1987. Dr. Grof’s early research centered on the clinical uses of psychedelic substances. Later, with his wife Christina, he developed Holotropic Breathwork and has been training professionals for years in this technique. Currently, he is teaching psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His books include: The Holotropic Mind; The Cosmic Game; Realms of the Human Unconscious; The Human Encounter With Death; LSD Psychotherapy; Beyond the Brain; The Adventure of Self-Discovery; The Books of the Dead; Beyond Death; The Stormy Search for the Self; and Psychology of the Future. www.ITAconferences.com and www.holotropic.com

MICHAEL CHRISTIE studied cello, composition and piano at the Royal College of Music (1975-79), where he won the Bliss Prize. As a freelance cellist he worked with various orchestras in the UK, including shows in the West End. His music theatre work

with ensembles such as the Lindsay Kemp Company took him on tours to Spain, Italy, Venezuela and the Shetland Islands. In 1989 he was commissioned by the Royal Opera House “Garden Venture” to write a chamber opera, The Standard Bearer. He wrote a number of music theatre pieces for Dartington Summer Music and also for the company that he co-founded with Susannah Self, Selfmade Music Theatre. As an educationalist he has specialized in teaching cello, recorder, composition and creative class music. Currently teaching in North London, he also teaches composition and musical awareness at the Junior Guildhall. www.selfmademusic.org.

Lincoln Brigade (1991 Acad e my Award nominated); and a recent col lab o ra tion with Houston Smith: A Seat at the Table: Strug gling for American Indian Religious Freedom. He was also featured in the BBC-2 documentary, Joseph Campbell: Hollywood’s Myth Master.

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“Eternity is a dimension of here and now.” Joseph Campbell

MAREN HANSEN of Santa Barbara, CA, is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, a psychotherapist, a founding member of the Pacifi ca Graduate Institute, and a board member of the Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas Library and Archives.

She is the author of Mother Mysteries, published by Shambhala, which explores pregnancy and childbirth as personal/mythic experiences. Maren is currently creating a template for teaching myth with the express purpose of stimulating psychological development. Maren’s doctoral research involves designing a curriculum that links the psychological developmental issues of adolescence with corresponding teaching archetypes in specifi c myths. Her program, Myth as Mentor, is a dialogical process between personal experience and the collective wisdom encoded in myth.

PAUL HORN has recorded over forty albums during an illustrious career that has spanned four decades. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and a Master’s degree at the

Manhattan School of Music in New York. After a stint in the Army, he briefl y played in the Sauter-Finegan big band in New York, then toured and recorded with the famed Chico Hamilton Quintet. In 1965 he earned two Grammy® Awards with Lalo Shifrin for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts and was also nominated for Cycle in the same year. Two more nominations followed; Traveler in 1988 and Inside Monument Valley in 1999. His Inside The Taj Mahal sold over one million copies and began what became New Age music.

Philosopher, performing artist and internationally acclaimed Tai Ji master, CHUNGLIANG AL HUANG is the founder-president of the International Living Tao Foundation, and director of its Lan Ting Institute. He is a research scholar of the Academia Sinica and a fellow of the World

Academy of Art and Science. He has received the highest rated Speaker’s Award from the Young Presidents’ Organization, the New Dimensions Broadcaster Award, and the prestigious Gold Medal from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China. Chungliang was a close colleague of Joseph Campbell, and each year from 1978 until 1987, Campbell celebrated his birthday at Esalen by

collaborating with him to teach a workshop entitled MythBody To Live By. Dedicated to fostering and perpetuating the legacy of East-West and world cultural synthesis, Chungliang is the author of numerous best-selling classics, including Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji; Quantum Soup; and the Essential Tai Ji Book. He and Alan Watts co-authored Tao: The Watercourse Way, and with Jerry Lynch, he wrote Thinking Body, Dancing Mind; Tao Mentoring and Working Out, Working Within: The Tao of Inner Fitness Through Sport and Exercise. His latest book is The Chinese Book of Animal Powers, a unique introduction to the Chinese Zodiac for readers age 8 to infi nity. www.livingtao.org

LYNNE KAUFMAN is an accomplished playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. Her fi rst novel, Slow Hands, was published by Mira Books in June 2003. Her second novel, Wild Women’s Weekend, will follow in June 2004. Lynne is the author of eleven full-length

plays which have been produced in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Louisville etc. at such theatres as The Magic Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and TheatreWorks. Her plays have won many awards including the NEA/Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays and Theatreworks Best New Play in California. Her short stories have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and McCalls.

SAM KEEN was, in his words, “overeducated at Harvard and Princeton” and was a professor of philosophy and religion at “various legitimate institutions” and a contributing editor of Psychology Today for 20 years before becoming a free-lance thinker, lecturer, seminar leader and consultant. He is the author

of a baker’s dozen books, and a co-producer of an award winning PBS documentary, Faces of the Enemy. His work was the subject of a sixty-minute PBS special, Bill Moyers—Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen.

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“You become mature when you become the authority for your own life.”

Joseph Campbell

"I found my bliss in ’66. Ever since I follow it…"

TERRY LUPTON Is a songwriter by trade with credits by popular recording artists including the platinum charting Swedish band Michael Learns To Rock.

He is a self-taught musician with a 20-year plus career, in writing, producing, movies, and TV, performing in the bands, Angel, and Iron Butterfl y. The muse continues to move in all directions. In 2001 the opportunity to join the Los Angeles Unifi ed School District (LAUSD) was presented, opening the door to reach children in creative ways.

Through bold, graphic renderings of timeless tales, Caldecott Medalist GERALD MCDERMOTT commun icates an understanding of the tran-sformative power of mythology. McDermott’s color magic, stylized figures and abstract motifs combine ancient imagery with

contemporary design. He was a protégé of the late mythologist Joseph Campbell. His rare ability to evoke the power of myth through simple language and brilliant art has garnered him a large international following and many awards including a Caldecott Medal for Arrow to the Sun and Caldecott Honors for Raven and Anansi the Spider. His most recent book is Creation. Mr. McDermott is a Joseph Campbell Foundation Fellow. www.geraldmcdermott.com

MICHAEL MURPHY is the co-founder and chairman of Esalen Institute and the author of both fi ction and non-fiction books that explore evidence for extraordinary human capacities: The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Golf in the Kingdom, Jacob Atabet, and An End to Ordinary

History. His latest nonfi ction work is God and the Evolving Universe co-authored with James Redfi eld and Sylvia Timbers. Other nonfi ction work includes: In the Zone, an anthology of extraordinary sports experiences, co-authored with Rhea White; The Life We Are Given, a book about transformative practice, co-authored with George Leonard; and The Future of the Body. During his forty-year involvement in the human potential movement, he and his work have been profi led in the New Yorker and featured in many magazines and journals worldwide. After graduating from Stanford University, he did graduate work there in philosophy, practiced meditation at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in South India in 1956 and 1957, co-founded Esalen and founded its Center for Theory and Research in 1962. In the 1980s, he helped organize Esalen’s pioneering Soviet-American Exchange Program, which became a premiere vehicle for citizen-to-citizen relations between Russians and Americans. In 1990, Boris Yeltsin’s fi rst visit to America was initiated by Esalen — a trip that would contribute to Yeltsin’s change of heart regarding the United Sates and capitalism and become part of changing the course of world history. Most recently, Murphy’s and George Leonard’s Integral Transformative Practices (ITP) program has been researched by Stanford Medical School. With fi nal results in all areas still pending, it has been concluded thus far that the ITP participants’ in Stanford’s research made measurable and considerable gains in IQ.

SUZIE SELF is an internationally known mezzo-soprano. She trained in voice, com po si tion and lute at the Royal College of Music, Lon don and won scholarships to study Strauss roles in Germany and at the Banff Centre, Canada with John Cage. She studied voice with Josephine Veasey and com po si tion with Stephen Dodg-

son. She has sung for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Opera Factory, Transparant, Ber- lin er Kammeroper, Scottish Opera, The Vlaamse Opera, and The Opera du Rhin. As a composer, she has written in a variety of genres, from chamber music to modern music theatre and beyond. Following the success of her fi rst symphony, Hokusai Says, based on the famous Japa-nese woodcuts, her current project is another symphony, Memories, Dreams, Re fl ec tions, based on the life and work of Carl Jung. As an educationalist, Suzie runs voice and com po si tion workshops for English Sinfonia, Dartington Sum mer School, Opera North, Junior Guildhall and the Skyros Centre (Greece). www.selfmademusic.org.

Producer/Director MICKEY LEMLE has been making feature fi lms, television series and documentary specials since 1968. In 1977 hefounded Lemle Pictures, Inc. His fi lm and television works have beenshown theatrically, on television and at fi lm festivals around theworld. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University. Mickey served in the U.S. Peace Corps

in Nepal and currently holds the position of Chairmanof the Board of the Tibet Fund. www.Lemlepictures.com.

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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell

DAVID STEINDL-RAST was born July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he moved with his family to the U.S.A. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY,

Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958/59, after twelve years of monastic training and studies in philosophy and theology, Brother David was sent by his abbot to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, for which he received Vatican approval in 1967. He co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and received the 1975 Martin Buber Award for his achievements in building bridges between religious traditions.

RICHARD TARNAS, PH.D. is professor of philosophy and psychology at CIIS in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also teaches at Pacifi ca Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Formerly the director of

programs at Esalen Institute, he is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern. His next work, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, will be published by Viking in early 2005.

ROBERT WALTER PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOSEPH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION

During the 1970’s, Bob co-founded the American Theater Institute; was a founding Faculty Fellow at California Institute of the Arts; lectured widely on experiential education; and worked as a

director, production manager, and playwright with such groups as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, and with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy on numerous productions in New York and internationally. In 1979 Bob began working with Joseph Campbell, who subsequently named him editorial director of his Historical Atlas of World Mythology. In 1982, he co-founded Van der Marck Editions to publish, not only Campbell’s Atlas, but also more than thirty titles by such renowned luminaries as Marija Gimbutas and Albert Hofmann. Following Campbell’s death in 1987, Bob served

as literary executor of his estate, completing and publishing portions of his Historical Atlas. When the Joseph Campbell Foundation was formed in 1990, he was named executive director. As executive editor of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, he continues to oversee the publication of Campbell’s oeuvre, and is project director of both the video series Joseph Campbell’s Mythos and the Joseph Campbell Audio Collection. He was appointed Foundation president in 1998. Over the years, Bob has presented papers and seminars on several continents at numerous colleges, universities and at such venues as the New York Open Center, the Aspen Institute, Palais Athena Cultural Centre (Sao Paulo), Esalen Institute (Big Sur), the Smithsonian Institution, and for two Parliaments of the World’s Religions (Chicago, 1993, & Cape Town, 1999), where he was also a member of the Assembly. A follower of the Tao, Bob was a founding Trustee of United Religions Initiative (URI) and has served that organization as Treasurer and as a member of its Global Council.

SPECIAL THANKS TO PRODUCTION COORDINATORS GINA AND MANNY OTTO

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“What you have to do, you do with play.”

“If you fi nd you are trying, go back to school. You’re not ready yet.”

“Awe is what moves us forward.”

“A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: ‘As you go the way of life you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.’”

“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit onyou. Don’t bother to brush it off.”

Joseph Campbell

“Joseph Campbell’s teachings and philosophy have been instrumental in shaping my own approach to life and teaching. It was a great blessing to have his presence on this planet for a short but meaningful time.” PAUL HORN

TRIBUTES TO JOSEPH CAMPBELL

REMEMBER THE DRAGON

“I met Joseph Campbell the fi rst time in New Yorkin the late 60s while conducting a seminar with Alan Watts. Joe and Jean Erdman (Mrs. Campbell), the dancer came to one of those famous Watts’ ‘bring my favorite friends together’ dinners one evening. Although I had known Jean well (she had been my teacher, later a colleague), it was my fi rst face to face encounter with Joseph who was one of my heroes since I read his famous book, The Hero with A Thousand Faces in college. I was visibly awestruck and self-intimidated about my pitiful vocabulary and scholarship. Sensing this unease, Joe reached out to hold my hand and assured me that my dancing body language was more eloquent than all the words both he and Alan Watts could spout together. Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell were giant human beings, extremely gregarious and perceptive; they bestowed their nurturance on us like sun and rain upon plants.

Many years later, after his retirement from Sarah Lawrence College, Joe came to Esalen and visited a joint seminar I was conducting with Gregory Bateson entitled “Giant Dancing Steps To An Ecology of Mindbody”, a paraphrase from Bateson’s well-known book. Joe suggested that we share a series of seminars, and re-named the title of one of his books, to be called “Mythbody To Live By”. That week-long seminar we taught became the most celebrated annual event at Esalen, always right around Easter on Joe’s birthday week.

During those fertile, inspirational eight consecutive years, I had been blessed with his quintessential intellect, the depth and breadth of his scholarship, his enormous wit and generosity of heart and mind; and I never ceased to marvel at his genius in transmitting so effortlessly the most essential and the ineffable. Those of us, who proudly called ourselves “Joe’s groupies”, persisted on being there with Joe year after year. We were the blessed ones. Joseph opened our minds and hearts, rekindled our innocence and enthusiasm for lifelong learning. He encouraged us to expand our perceptivity, heighten our reaches, and to synthesize the multi-dimensional complexity of his fathomless offerings. Tireless and patient, he never lost his joy and enthusiasm in reviewing many of his most potent

and repeatedly requested lectures, so that we could again and again re-capture fresh insights and penetrate deeper meanings from them.

Joseph was more than gracious about my bringing the Tai Ji metaphors to illustrate his lectures on the Kundalini, The Dance of Shiva and The Hero’s Journey. We mimed the metaphors and incarnated ourselves, in the dancing re-creation of Krishna, Kali, Buddha, Kwan Yin and other mythical deities. We told cosmic jokes, sang mythological ditties, and hopped about on one leg, being “Shiva Nataraja”, the Lord of the Dance, with multiple pairs of arms, harmonizing the diverse forces of the universe. We were truly a lively group of happy students of lifelong learning, “joyfully participating in the ecstasies and sorrows of the world!”

To help us acknowledge our often sheltered self-awareness, Joseph, with good humor always, teased and jolted the narrow minded and insipid to open our eyes and laugh at our follies. He knew well that “Life feeds on life” and reminded the overly zealous vegetarians to wake up and see themselves as those who “cannot hear the tomatoes scream!”; he warned the career driven macho men to foresee that the ladder they clawed their way to the top may end up against the wrong wall; and behaved even more gentlemanly when militant feminists resented him for graciously treating them as ladies. Most importantly, Joseph ignited the fi re in the bellies of us all, so we may fi nd our true “bliss” and have the courage and wisdom to follow it!

Joe was a treasure of a teacher who mesmerized us with his tales of the Homeric Odysseys, the Arthurian Romances, along with his special insights on James Joyce, Thomas Mann, C.G. Jung, Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. Although Indology had been one of his early focused works in editing his mentor, Heinrich Zimmer’s legacy, Joe’s wealth of knowledge embodies his initial passion in primal cultures, especially with the American Indians; and later across the globe to Japan and China. And to be perfectly in tune with the future, he opened our minds to embrace the journey of Man into the Unknown, and guided us back safely to our “Inner Reaches” from the exploration of the “Outer Space.”

A world-class athlete, jazz musician and a lover of dance, Joseph Campbell was a man of many qualities, magnifi cently being wholly himself, who enthralled and enlightened us. He was without a doubt, the Dragon of a mythic dimension; the sage Confucius once described the great Lao Tzu to be.” CHUNGLIANG AL HUANG

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“Joe gave an immense number of lectures over the half century that he was a teacher, and some of those lectures he gave a great number of times. Not surprisingly, he often used the exact same phrases or sentences as he recounted a particular idea or story. But he always managed to speak those familiar words with a certain freshness each time, as if he had not spoken them a hundred times before. No doubt part of this freshness was due to the emotional power that these topics continued to hold for him. For example, his inner battle with the Judaeo-Christian religious tradition was a lifelong one, and certainly inspired much of his sustained interest in and embrace of the world’s vast range of mythologies. I particularly recall how in his lectures on Gnosticism, he would build up to and then deliver the great punch line quotation he paraphrased from the Gnostics: “The only trouble with Yahweh is that he thinks he’s God.” In the many times I heard him say this, it seemed to me he never failed to take a kind of youthfully rebellious delight in this witty deconstruction of the entire religious tradition into which he had been born, and against which he defi ned himself throughout his life.” RICK TARNAS

JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

“The bar at the Century Club was empty except for Joe and me. It was noon on a weekday and we met there before going on to the dining room for lunch. I sank back into the overstuffed leather chair. The whole place felt like it was from another time, so much so that I expected that if I closed by eyes I might hear horses’ hoofs on the cobblestones just outside the large double windows.

The ancient bartender saw Joe come in and, unbidden, brought him a glass of The Glenlivet scotch - a double, no ice. He put it down in front of Joe, who smiled, and politely thanked the bartender. Joe looked at me and asked, “Do you like single malt scotch?” “Why yes, Joe. It’s my drink of choice,” I answered, leaving off that I really never drank during the day and that I had not had breakfast that morning. “Would you like it neat, or ruined?” he asked.“Neat,” I responded. “A double for my friend,” Joe told the bartender, who nodded and went off behind the bar.

The fi rst sip was warm and smoky. I settled back into the chair and Joe and I proceeded to have the kind of wide ranging conversations that one could only have with Joe. We talked of myths and movies and heroes and stories and books and art. I never tired of talking with Joe. Even if I had heard him tell a story before, it was always seemed fresh and vital. We drank our scotches.

At one point, I was feeling the warm haziness of the double scotch at noon on an empty stomach. I looked over at Joe through the scotch fog and he was saying, “You know what the meaning of life is, don’t you?” There was a pause. I was fi ghting my way through the haze. “Mickey,” I said to myself, “pay attention! One of the great minds on the planet is about to tell you the meaning of life. Pay attention!” I leaned forward hoping that would help me get through some of the fog. “The meaning of life,” Joe said, his eyes fi erce and piercing, “is what ever you defi ne it to be.”

When I was about to get married, the Rabbi told us that marriage was just the two of us standing up before our friends and families and saying: “This is a special relationship.” By saying it, it became so. He went on to explain that one of the great contributions of the Jewish tradition is the concept of the Sabbath. By saying a day is special it becomes so.

That was what Joe was revealing to me as the meaning of life, a big idea, but Joe never shrank away from big ideas, nor from sharing them with enthusiasm.

While I was making a movie about His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at one point he said to me that the meaning of life was “happiness.” Happiness defi ned not as getting more stuff, but as serving others.

Sir Laurens van der Post told me it was fi nding meaning in your life: that happiness comes and goes but if your life has meaning then you belong.

Ram Dass told me that the meaning of life is to go to God.

I can hold all of them because as Joe told me that noon in the bar: whatever you defi ne it to be, thus it becomes.” MICKEY LEMLE MMIII

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“In one of the seminars at Esalen, as an invited Guest, I was accompanying the Tai Chi movements led by Chungliang after he had appropriately ask Joseph to give all of us some time to release our minds from the spectacular and profound information that Joseph was creating. As usual, we were all totally spellbound by his enormous depth and feeling of exuberance as he wove his way through history and ideas. I was almost not ready to play the cello I was so caught up in his way and words. However, as soon as we began Joseph began to participate with such a big smile and a look of joy at Chungliang, that I was even more amazed by this great humanitarian and genius that we were privileged to be with.” DAVID DARLING

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"I was thirty-six years old when I fi rst met Joseph Campbell, although his writings on mythology had captured my imagination much earlier in graduate school. My favorite memories of him include his insatiable love of the writings of James Joyce; his enormous delight, as a gentleman, in honoring the feminine ––expecially his talented wife, his students at Sarah Lawrence, and his respect and friendship for Marija Gimbutas; and most of all, I remember his extraordinary gifts as a master story-teller, whose style was spontaneous, fl uid, and laced with wit and insightful brilliance.

It was a privilege to cross his path many times before his death, and to help insure the preservation of his wisdom through books, tapes and fi lms. In the 1980’s many of us gathered together several times at Esalen to dialogue with him…Stan and Christina Grof, Robert Bly, Yamake Highwater, Stephen Larsen, Rick Tarnas, Gregory Bateson, Michael Murphy, Michael and Justine Toms, Phil Cousineau and many others who came to honor him and his work. Joseph Campbell was a consummate raconteur, scholar and master teacher with boundless energy, who regaled us all for hours and changed many lives for the better.

His conversations with me around mythology and tarot ultimately influenced and encouraged me to write The Tarot Handbook. And his impact on me instilled into my work, as a cultural anthropologist, a deeper love of world-wide mythology and perennial wisdoms.

Joseph Campbell was a generous man, who consistently modeled an irrepressible love of his work and who believed in living his life fully. For all of this and his outstanding legacy and contribution, I am eternally grateful."

“In the early days of Pacifi ca Graduate Institute, when our legs were still wobbly, Joseph Campbell would come to Santa Barbara and offer seminars and conferences to the community. These events were well attended and produced income and recognition for what was then only a seed idea for a School. In his generosity, Joseph would take the smallest of

"More than anyone else, Joseph Campbell has introduced the comparative study of symbol and myth to people around the world. In so doing, he has opened countless men and women to new visions of heaven and Earth and to deeper understandings of self in relation to society, nature, and cosmos. At Esalen, he has dramatized the spiritual quest as central to the world’s unfoldment. He is our friend, our guide, and a hero on the greater frontiers now opening around us."MICHAEL MURPHY

“Joe changed my life. I was fortunate enough to meet Joe Campbell at Esalen in 1965 and begin a friendship that lasted until his death. There’s not a day that I don’t think of him. He was my most important teacher and his wisdom continues to be an inspiration for my creative life. Some of my happiest memories include:• After that fi rst seminar at Esalen on Myths of

the Underworld my asking him to lecture at U.C.Extension and, to my amazed delight, Joe saying yes.

• Joe lecturing at Extension every fall and spring. After a lecture on the Eleusinian Mysteries, over a glass of scotch, my suggesting that he lead a travel/study program to Greece and Joe saying yes. That became the fi rst of three wonder fi lled trips to Greece, South East Asia, and Mexico and Guatemala, sacred sites every day and Joe’s mesmerizing talks in the evening.

• Joe sitting beside me at the Magic Theatre during a performance of my fi rst play The Couch, about Jung and Freud, and pronouncing it in his most avuncular manner, “world class theatre, darling.”

• Organizing a celebration for his 80th birthday with guests, Maria Gimbutas, Robert Bly, and Barbara Myerhold at the Palace of Fine Arts and the sold out audience singing happy birthday as hundreds of colored balloons cascaded from the ceiling. And that evening, at a star studded dinner, I sat between Joe and George Lucas as Joe belted out his own re-written mythological lyrics to Give me that old time religion.

• Receiving a hand written letter the next week:“One week after the noble event, and if I had not Jean beside me to assure me that it actually took place, I would have to think it had all been a vast dream. What a way to go! And like everything else that you have done for me, it so perfectly matched my readiness for precisely that experience, that I have passed through it as through a looking glass to the next room of my ordained destiny. I cannot even thank you, because for such a gift of love and understanding, words do not count: only something in the pulse of the heart. Yours ever, Joe.”

LYNNE KAUFMAN

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honorariums. His wishes were for Pacifi ca to succeed as a place of excellent scholarship in the fi elds of psychology and culture. Without his encouragement, Pacifi ca would not be what it is today. His gifts live forever in the soul of our Institution. The Joseph Campbell Library and Archives and the Graduate Degree Program in Mythological Studies live at Pacifica as a tribute to his warm embrace.” STEVE AIZENSTAT

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Pernod Ricard,the American distributor of The Glenlivet has generously provided Joseph Campbell’s favorite Scotch for this centenary celebration. Thank you!

"Happy Birthday, Joe!"

QUOTES BY JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“If you follow your bliss, the universe will open doors where there wereonly walls.”

“If you follow your bliss, you will always have bliss, money or not. If youfollow money, you may lose it and you will have nothing.”

“When the world seems to be falling apart, you must hang onto your ownbliss. It’s that life that survives.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

“You must be willing to get rid of the life you’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for you.”

“The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.”

“Eternity is a dimension of here and now.”

“The heroic life is living the individual adventure.”

“You must enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path.Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path.”

“If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must beready for it.”

“Ideas are dangerous. Don’t take them seriously. You can get by on a few.”

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,to match your nature with Nature.”

“You become mature when you become the authority for your own life.”

“The god you worship is the god you deserve.”

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