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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

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.”

Customer Review: Metaphors in mythology
Joseph Campbell has been my mentor for years. He brings our consciousness to another level with this one!!!
Customer Review: Campbell at his best
I know, I know, everyone will point to Campbell’s astonishing Hero with a Thousand Faces, and his 4-part book series on different traditions, but I love this book. I think it’s because it is Campbell in his later years, synthesizing all he has learned over decades of study, and applying it to the future. It also is one of the more accessible Campbell books in terms of folks who don’t usually read high-end academic works being able to follow it without re-reading every other paragraph. (That is NOT a criticism — Joseph Campbell packed a lot into each of his brilliant thoughts). Another book I’d recommend is the biography on him, “Fire in the Mind.”


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