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  8.1/1064 votes

  The Hero's Adventure

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/21/1988

  About Campbell, hero types, hero deeds, Jesus Christ, the Buddha, Krishna, movie heroes, Star Wars as a metaphor, an Iroquois story: the refusal of suitors, dragons, dreams and Jungian psychology, “follow your bliss,” consciousness in plants, Gaia, Chartres cathedral, spirituality vs. economics, emerging myths, “Earthrise” as a symbol.

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  8.1/1046 votes

  The Message of the Myth

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/22/1988

  Creation myths, transcending duality, pairs of opposites, God vs. Nature, sin, morality, participation in sorrow, the Gospel of Thomas, Old Time Religion, computers, religion as “software,” the story of Indra: “What a great boy am I!,” participation in society.

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  7.9/1041 votes

  The First Storytellers

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/23/1988

  Animal memories, harmonization with body and life-cycle, consciousness vs. its vehicle, killing for food, story: “The Buffalo's Wife,” buffalo massacre, initiation ritual, rituals diminishing, crime increasing, artists, the Shaman, the center of the world.

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  7.9/1040 votes

  The Mythology of Star Wars

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/28/1988

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  7.9/1041 votes

  Sacrifice and Bliss

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/24/1988

  Chief Seattle, the sacred Earth, agricultural renewal, human sacrifice, sacrifice of the Mass, transcendence of death, story: “The Green Knight,” societal dictates vs. following bliss, “hidden hands” guiding life's work.

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  8.0/1040 votes

  Love and the Goddess

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/25/1988

  The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang, the correlation between the earth or mother Goddess and images of fertility (the sacred feminine).

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  NaN/100 votes

  Masks of Eternity

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/26/1988

  Identifying with the infinite, the circle as a symbol, clowns and masks, epiphanies and James Joyce, artistic arrest, the monstrous as sublime, the dance of Shiva, that which is beyond words.

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  NaN/100 votes

  Sukhavati - Place of Bliss

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/28/1988

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