Audiobooks Narrated by Bill Moyers

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.

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.

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.

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 provides challenging insights into the concepts of God, religion and eternity, as revealed in Christian teachings and the beliefs of Buddhists, Navajo Indians, Schopenhauer, Jung and others.

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.

Moyers on Democracy collects many of Bill Moyers’s most moving statements to connect the dots on what is happening to our country and to rekindle the reader’s conviction that “the gravediggers of democracy will not have the last word.”

Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections...

In the best selling tradition of Healing and the Mind comes the complete audio track to the groundbreaking Public Television series, a spirited discussion...