One story to entertain them all | TEDxVienna What does the Iliad have in common with World of Warcraft? Where lies the connection between Oliver Twist and Bruce Wayne? And how does Emerald City relate to the Death Star? We are surrounded by stories, and we make more and more of them daily. As with any idea, a story requires a medium to materialize, but it is by no means bound to spoken or written language. The appearance of stories is diverse, yet structurally many stories are amazingly similar. While not every stage or character has to occur in each instance, Campbell suggests that any story ever told is basically a variation of that one monomyth. However, one question remains: Why are we not yet bored by having that one story told over and over again? Speaking of quests, initiations, obstacles, thresholds to increasingly challenging levels and rewards, we shouldn’t neglect another popular means of storytelling. photo 1, 2, 3, 4
Values Explanations > Values About values | Historical values | Research on values | So what? Values is a confusing word that often gets confused with 'value' as in the value you get from buying a cheap, but well-built house. Values are, in fact powerful drivers of how we think and behave. About values Value categories: different spheres into which we place values. Historical values American Values: A list of traditional US cultural values. Research on values Career Anchors: identified by Edgar Schein as shapers of what we do. Values are also often a significant element of culture, where they form a part of the shared ruleset of a group. When I break my values, I will feel shame and guilt. Know the the values to which the other person will subscribe (these are often common sense) as well as the actual values they enact in practice (watch them for this). Beware of the values in practice which can be harmful to you (will they betray you?). See also Social Norms, Guilt, Repulsion, Pride, Shame
Monomyth Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or the hero's journey, is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).[1] Campbell, an enthusiast of novelist James Joyce, borrowed the term monomyth from Joyce's Finnegans Wake.[2] Campbell held that numerous myths from disparate times and regions share fundamental structures and stages, which he summarized in The Hero with a Thousand Faces: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[3] A chart outlining the Hero's Journey. Summary[edit] In a monomyth, the hero begins in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unknown world of strange powers and events. The 17 Stages of the Monomyth[edit]
Postmodernism and Truth Explanations > Critical Theory > Concepts > Postmodernism and Truth Pre-modernist truth | Modernist truth | Post-modernist truth | See also Postmodernism can be a confusing concept that gets dropped into intellectual conversation and presentations, typically to make a complexifying point that prevents easy conclusions being made. But what is postmodernism? Mostly, it is about truth. Or not. Pre-modernist truth In the days before modern science emerged, how did you know if something was true? The other way of knowing truth was to trust another person who declared something to be true. Archetypally, priests were critical truthsayers. Truth could also be asserted by one's superiors, from parents to craft masters to judges to the monarch. Pre-modernist philosophers, from Socrates onward (and probably before), sought truth through thought and reason. There is still plenty of pre-modernist truth around today, yet there are serious challenges to this order. Modernist truth Postmodernist truth
Myth, Legend, Folklore, Ghosts Apollo and the Greek Muses Updated July 2010 COMPREHENSIVE SITES ON MYTHOLOGY ***** The Encyclopedia Mythica - SEARCH - Areas - Image Gallery - Genealogy tables - Mythic Heroes Probert Encyclopaedia - Mythology Gods, Heroes, and MythDictionary of Mythology What is Myth? MESOPOTAMIAN MYTHOLOGYThe Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ Sumerian Mythology FAQ Sumerian Mythology Sumerian Gods and Goddesses Sumerian Myths SUMERIAN RELIGION Mythology's Mythinglinks: the Tigris-Euphrates Region of the Ancient Near East Gods, Goddesses, Demons and Monsters of Mesopotamia The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ More info on Ancient Mesopotamia can be found on my Ancient River Valley Civilizations page. GREEK MYTHOLOGYOrigins of Greek MythologyGreek Mythology - MythWeb Greek-Gods.info (plus a fun QUIZ)Ancient Greek Religion Family Tree of Greek Mythology Greek Names vs. VARIOUS FAIRIES, ELVES, UNICORNS, MERMAIDS, & OTHER MYTHICAL TOPICS HERE BE DRAGONS!
Is Google Making Us Stupid? "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter—a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, to be precise.
Liste de créatures légendaires Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Cette liste regroupe les créatures légendaires (ayant un article dédié), c'est-à-dire des créatures dont l’existence, non prouvée de manière scientifique, repose sur des croyances passées ou actuelles. Elle ne reprend pas les divinités ayant fait l'objet de cultes. Les créatures fictives modernes de la fantasy et de la fiction ne sont pas incluses. A[modifier | modifier le code] B[modifier | modifier le code] C[modifier | modifier le code] D[modifier | modifier le code] E[modifier | modifier le code] F[modifier | modifier le code] G[modifier | modifier le code] H[modifier | modifier le code] I[modifier | modifier le code] J[modifier | modifier le code] K[modifier | modifier le code] L[modifier | modifier le code] M[modifier | modifier le code] N[modifier | modifier le code] O[modifier | modifier le code] P[modifier | modifier le code] Q[modifier | modifier le code] R[modifier | modifier le code] S[modifier | modifier le code] T[modifier | modifier le code]
How to know it all The way to know it all is to change the definition of “all.” Schools do this, for example, by defining “all” to mean everything on a test. Then it’s possible for someone to know it all. Schools create the illusion that the world is finite. You may not know everything, but someone does. The desire to know it all is pernicious. When I was very young, I thought that if I read every volume of the World Book Encyclopedia, I’d know everything. If you want to learn English by first learning all the vocabulary, you’ll never speak English. Computer languages are orders of magnitude simpler than human languages, but they’re still too complex to learn exhaustively. A common problem in math is how to select a finite sample from an infinite space. Even when things are finite, it’s often very practical to think of them as being infinite. Related post: Evaluate people at their best or at their worst?
How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life by Maria Popova “You have to learn to recognize your own depth.” In 1985, mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987) sat down with legendary interviewer and idea-monger Bill Moyers for a lengthy conversation at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch in California, which continued the following year at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The resulting 24 hours of raw footage were edited down to six one-hour episodes and broadcast on PBS in 1988, shortly after Campbell’s death, in what became one of the most popular series in the history of public television. But Moyers and the team at PBS felt that the unedited conversation, three quarters of which didn’t make it into the television production, was so rich in substance that it merited preservation and public attention. As Moyers notes in the introduction, Campbell saw as the greatest human transgression “the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake.” Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
Convert PDF to Word (DOC) Online — 100% Free! Ted Ed on hero story & Joseph Campbell The Hero Archetype in Literature, Religion, and Popular Culture: (along with a useful PowerPoint presentation teachers can download at this URL: )Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (users embark on their own hero's journey): American Masters Lesson from PBS for Teachers on George Lucas, the Power of Myth, and the Hero's Journey: an interactive approach to the Hero's Journey: of course, information about Joseph Campbell's works on the subject, on the Joseph Campbell Foundation site:The Hero With A Thousand Faces Hero's Journey (semi-biographical film):
Experts rethink good study habits Ask someone for tips on proper study skills, and you’re likely going to get an answer that ranges from “study in a quiet, sealed room” to “drink a sip of water each time you need to remember a fact.” But from folksy suggestions to ideas based in actual science, study skills are just about how well you train your brain to absorb information. The New York Times reports that scientists have determined a few simple techniques that can enable a student to absorb more information. Many of these new findings contradict commonly-accepted study habits. Retaining information is all in how the brain operates. Nate Kornell is a psychologist atWilliams Collegewho has studied how the brain absorbs information. Finally, if a person crams for a test, he or she is much more likely to completely forget the information over the long term. For further reading: Forget what you know about good study habits
48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures Free Online: The Power of Myth & Story Photo by "Folkstory" features Joseph Campbell (left) with Jonathan Young, via Wikimedia Commons. You may not be interested in politics, they say, but politics is interested in you. The same, if you believe famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, goes for myth: far from explaining only the origin of the world as believed by extinct societies, it can explain the power of stories we enjoy today — up to and including Star Wars. The man behind PBS' well-known series The Power of Myth left behind many words in many formats telling us precisely why, and now you can hear a fair few of them -- 48 hours worth -- for free on this Spotify playlist. "From the Star Wars trilogy to the Grateful Dead," says the Joseph Campbell Foundation, "Joseph Campbell has had a profound impact on our culture, our beliefs, and the way we view ourselves and the world." Would you like to support the mission of Open Culture? Related Content: Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers Break Down Star Wars as an Epic, Universal Myth