Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “various other people’s religion.” But he also stated that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing sort of travel guidebook or map to reach fulfillment—or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, lots of the world’s most effective misconceptions support the person’s heroic route toward bliss.

In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, mental aspect of myth. Like his traditional best-selling books Myths about Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Change to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss pulls from Campbell’s well-known lectures and dialogues, which focus on his remarkable storytelling and capability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal development and the search for change. Right here he anchors mythology’s symbolic intelligence to the individual, applying one of the most poetic mythical metaphors towards the difficulties of our day to day lives.

Campbell dwells on existence’s important questions. Combining cross-cultural tales using the teachings of contemporary mindset, he examines the ways that our myths form and enrich our lives and shows how myth might help each of us truly determine and follow our bliss.