Bill Moyers Audio & Video

Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell's most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology.

In this episode from the ‘Healing and the Mind' series, Bill Moyers meets two therapists who use Eastern meditation and Western group psychotherapy to heal their patients - and not drugs or surgery.

Bill Moyers travels to China to explore the curious world of Chinese medicine.

Campbell compares the creation story in Genesis with creation stories from around the world. Because the world changes, religion has to be transformed and new mythologies created. People today are stuck with myths that don't fit their needs.

Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy - the very system our founders revolted against.

Campbell discusses the role of sacrifice in myth, which symbolizes the necessity for rebirth. He stresses the need for every one of us to find our sacred place in the midst of today's fast-paced, technological world.

Long before medieval knights charged off to slay dragons, tales of heroic adventures were an integral part of all world cultures. Campbell challenges everyone to see the presence of a heroic journey in his or her life.

Campbell speaks of the 12th century troubadors who exalted the individual experience of men and women over the authority and traditions of church and state, and of the image of woman as goddess, virgin and mother earth.

Since 1992, Bill Moyers has been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee -- one black, one white -- as they battle to keep from sliding into poverty.

Campbell and Moyers talk about our relationship to the first stories and the people who told them, the rite of passage in primitive societies, and the role of the mystical shamans; of the animal envoys of the unseen power, who served to teach and guide mankind in primeval time.