"When you try
to understand everything, you will understand nothing. It is best to understand yourself, and then you
will understand everything."
Shunryu Suzuki

Suggested Reading
Updated 8 August 2000
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Mythology, Ritual, Symbol/Metaphor and the Journey

Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949, 1968)
-- , The Flight of the Wild Gander (1951)
-- , Myths to Live By (1972)
-- , (with Bill Moyers) The Power of Myth, (1988)
-- , The Masks of God (four volumes) (1964)
-- , The Mythic Image, (1974)
-- , Transformations of Myth through Time, (1990)

Eliade, Mircea, The Myth of the Eternal Return (1965)
-- , Myths, Rites, Symbols: A Mircea Eliade Reader (1975)

Frazer, Sir James George, The Golden Bough (Collier, 1922)

Jewkes, W. T., The Perilous Journey, textbook (1973)

Larrington, Carolyne, ed., The Feminist Companion to Mythology (1992)

Metzner, Ralph, The Unfolding Self (1986)

Rank, Otto, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero

Radin, Paul, The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology (Schocken Books, 1972)

Segal, Robert A., Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (1990)
--, ed., In Quest of the Hero, Princeton University Press (1990)
--, ed., Myth and Ritual Theory, Blackwell (1998)
--, ed., Jung on Mythology, Princeton University Press (1998)

Toms, Michael, An Open Life: Conversations with Joseph Campbell (1988)

Books of Myths

Astrov, Margot, ed., The Winged Serpent (1974)

Clark, Ella E., Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies (1966)

Cruse, Amy, The Book of Myths (1993)

Eliot, Alexander, The Universal Myths, (1976)

Erodes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfanso, American Indian Myths and Legends, (1984)

Feldmann, Susan, The Storytelling Stone, (1965)

Leeming, D. A., The World of Myth, (1990)
--, ed., Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, Oxford (1998)

Sandars, N. K., The Epic of Gilgamesh, (1988)

Young, Ella, The Tangle-Coated Horse (and other tales from the Fionn Saga), (1991)

Myth, Ritual and the Hero's Journey in Our Lives

Catford, Lorna and Ray, Michael, The Path of the Everyday Hero, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (1991)

Driver, Tom F., The Magic of Ritual (1991)

Keen, Sam and Anne Valley-Fox, Your Mythic Journey, (1973)

Krippner, Stanley and Feinstein, David, The Mythic Path, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (1997)

May, Rollo, The Cry for Myth (1991)

Pearson, Carol S., The Hero Within, (1988)
-- , Awakening the Hero Within (1994)

Rebillot, Paul, The Call to Adventure: Bringing the Hero's Journey to Daily Life (1993)

Weiland, Friedemann, The Journey of the Hero (1991)

Psychology and Growth

NEW Batchelor, Stephen, Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism (1983)

Chopra, Deepak, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994)

Combs, Allan, and Holland, Mark, Synchronicity: Science, Myth and the Trickster (1996)

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Finding Flow (Basic Books, 1997)

Diamond, Marian, Ph.D., Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity and Healthy Emotions from Birth through Adolescence (E. P. Dutton, 1998)

Frankle, Victor, Man's Search for Meaning (1984)

Hillman, James, Re-visioning Psychology (Harperperennial Library, )1992

NEW Langer, Judith, Mindfulness (1989)

Pipher, Mary, Ph.D., Reviving Ophelia (Ballantine Books, 1994)

Walsh, Roger and Vaughan, Frances, ed. Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (1993)

Religion and Relgious Philosophy

Herrigel, Eugen, Zen in the Art of Archery, ( 1971)

Hoff, Benjamin, The Tao of Pooh (1982)

Reps, Paul (ed.), Zen Flesh, Zen Bones ( 1961)

Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)

Watts, Alan W., The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
-- , Tao: The Watercourse Way, 1975

Other Books of Interest

Beck, Peggy; Walters, Anna Lee; Francisco, Nia, The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life (1995)

Crichton, Michael, Travels, (1993)

Fontana, David, The Secret Language of Symbols (1993)

Hillerman, Tony, Listening Woman (1978)
-- , A Thief of Time (1988)

Johnston, Tracy, Shooting the Boh (1992)

Manchester, William, A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance

Nisker, Wes "Scoop", Crazy Wisdom (1990)

O'Brien, Tim, The Things they Carried, Penguin (1990)

NEW Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony, Penguin (1994)

Suzki, David, and Knudtson, Peter, Wisdom of the Elders (1992)

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