Joseph Campbell discussion group discussion

I thought it would be a good idea if we used a thread to list books that relate to all that we'v been talking about. Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, et al.

List the books that have influenced your personal myth and journey in life, and why they did.

Here are a couple of mine to start with:
Women Who Run with the Wolves - Pinkola Estes C.
Helped me really discover my wildly creative side, as well as give myself permission to ask all those questions I was too afraid to ask.

Pathways to Bliss Mythology and Personal Transformation - Joseph Campbell
Teaching about myth threading its way through all of our lives, and how important it is to find your own Holy Grail.

A New Earth Awakening to Your Life's Purpose - Eckhart Tolle
Learned how important it is to know you are not your thoughts, or your ego which makes you obsess and get lost in thinking, and how to find the stillness inside to help find your true self and open up to an immense universal creativity.

The Divine Matrix Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief - Gregg Braden
This book opened up a whole new way of seeing the world and how we are all literally connected through our DNA and energy, as well as how it is possible to affect our lives, and the world, with our intent and energy if we learn how to focus and believe in it. (Quantum physics, chaos theory & fractal stuff... but with an entire spiritual bent to it)

I have been reading the last couple of weeks of conversation here and I love it. I totally relate to what you all are saying. I would say more but I don't have access to my own computer at the moment. Thanks for this Joseph Campbell thread.

I love the idea of a book thread! I'll have to sit down and think about what to contribute after I get over this cold and ear infection.

Dr Allan's Stories We Need to Know would be on the top of the list, for sure

The Flight of the Wild Gander is worth picking up as well. Check it out!

The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels..... I love thinking about alternative narratives of the life of Christ that are not sanitized for our protection. The orthodox church tried to burn them all. When I see book burners it makes me wonder, why are they so dangerous!

Care of the Soul - Thomas Moore ..... Plenty of spiritual food to chew on here, especially about how the spiritual walk is beneath the surface of the rational. Religious beliefs, creeds, are products of the mind, rationality. But the narrative of your own personal myth, the one you really live by, not the one somebody else assigned to you, flows from some place beneath that conscious program.

God in Search of Man/Man is Not Alone - Abraham Joshua Heschel..... I can't recommend these companion texts enough. Heschel is deep, deep waters. He may be the most elequent writer I've ever read. No mean feat considering English was not his first language or even his second.

"Where is God? for such a question would imply that we who ask are present while God is absent. In the realm of the ineffable, where our own presence is incredible, we do not ask: Where is God? We can only exclaim: Where is he not? Where are we? How is our presence possible".
~ Man is not Alone (Heschel)