The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

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." Suggests That The Laws Of Physics That Govern The Universe Are Also At Play Within The Human Consciousness. About The Collected Works Of Joseph Campbell -- Introduction: Myth And The Body -- Cosmology And The Mythic Imagination -- Metaphor As Myth And As Religion -- The Problem -- Metaphor As Fact And Fact As Metaphor -- Metaphors Of Psychological Transformation -- Threshold Figures -- The Metaphorical Journey -- Metaphorical Identification -- The Net Of Gems -- The Way Of Art. Joseph Campbell. Originally Published: New York : A. Van Der Marck, C1986. Joseph Campbell Foundation. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. It was startling experience for me, as it must have been for many others watching the television broadcast of the Apollo spaceflight immediately before that of Armstrong's landing on the moon, when Ground Control in Houston asked, "Who's navigating now?"