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Volume 2, Issue 2: Winter 2017 Volume 2, Issue 2: Winter 2017 I II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ICSC Press JOURNAL OF GENIUS AND EMINENCE Editor Mark A. Runco Distinguished Research Fellow, American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology Editorial Board Selcuk Acar James C. Kaufman International Center for Studies in Creativity, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Buffalo State, State University of New York Arthur I. Miller Andrei Aleinikov University College, London, England International Academy of Genius, Monterey, California Robert Root-Bernstein Giovanni E. Corazza Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan University of Bologna, Marconi Institute for Creativity, Bologna, Italy Dean Keith Simonton University of California, Davis David Galenson Professor, University of Chicago Harriet Zuckerman Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Senior Vice President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Academic Director of the Center for Creativity Economics, Professor Emerita, Columbia University. Universidad del CEMA I II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ICSC Press Journal of Genius and Eminence (ISSN: 2334-1130 print, Permissions and submissions: Email [email protected] 2334-1149 electronic) is published semi-annually by ICSC Press, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo Copyright © 2017 by the International Center for Studies State, State University of New York, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, in Creativity. All rights reserved. No part of this publication Chase 248, Buffalo, NY 14222. ICSC Press Managing Editor: may be reproduced, stored, transmitted, or disseminated in Paul Reali, [email protected]. any form or by any means without prior written permission. 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The publisher assumes no Street, Charlotte, NC 28205. responsibility for any statements of fact or opinion expressed in the published papers. The appearance of advertising in this Subscriptions: Print ISSN: 2334-1130; Electronic ISSN: journal does not constitute an endorsement or approval by the 2334-1149. Institutional subscriptions and access available publisher, the editor, or the editorial board of the quality or through EBSCO. Personal subscriptions are $15/issue (US), value of the product advertised or of the claims made for it by available from icscpress.com/journals/jge. its manufacturer. JOURNAL OF GENIUS AND EMINENCE Volume 2, Issue 2: Winter 2017 Contents Pathways to the Hero’s Journey: A Tribute to Joseph Campbell and the 30th Anniversary of His Death Stephan Sonnenburg & Mark A. Runco ................................................1 Joseph Campbell Goes to the Movies: The Influence of the Hero’s Journey in Film Narrative Christopher Vogler ...........................................................9 The Hero with a Thousand Facebooks: Mythology in Between the Fall of Humanism and the Rise of Big-Data Religion Roberto Ranieri ...........................................................23 Heroic Intelligence: The Hero’s Journey as an Evolutionary and Existential Blueprint Olivia Efthimiou & Zeno E. Franco ............................................32 From Monomyth to Interdisciplinary Creative Polymathy Frédéric Darbellay ..........................................................44 Darwin & Kubrick, Joe Campbell & Me: Eminent-Genius and Everyday-Joe Heroes on a Journey Joe T. Velikovsky ...........................................................54 The Hero’s Journey: A Creative Act Clive Williams ............................................................69 From Orphan to Sage: The Hero’s Journey as an Assessment Tool for Hip Hop Songs Created in Music Therapy Michael Viega .............................................................78 Music Education’s Hero Collective: More like the Justice League than Superman Clint Randles .............................................................88 Joseph’s Journey: Uncovering Israel’s Unconscious Raj Balkaran .............................................................95 From Zero to Hero: A Narrative Amplification of Design Thinking Stephan Sonnenburg .......................................................104 Adventurers and Lovers: Organizational Heroines and Heroes for a New Time Monika Kostera ...........................................................115 Heroic Organizations and Institutions as Secular Temples: A Personal Outlook Carol S. Pearson ..........................................................126 JOURNAL OF GENIUS AND EMINENCE, 2(2), 1-8, 2017 ICSC Press Issue Copyright 2017 International Center for Studies in Creativity Article Copyright 2017 Stephan Sonnenburg & Mark A. Runco I II I I I I I I I I I I I I I ISSN: 2334-1130 print/2334-1149 online I DOI: 10.18536/jge.2017.02.2.2.01 Pathways to the Hero’s Journey: A Tribute to Joseph Campbell and the 30th Anniversary of His Death Stephan Sonnenburg Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany Mark Runco American Institute for Behavioral Research & Technology, Leucadia, California Joseph Campbell is the mythographer of the last century who has congenially opened the mythological universe to both scholars and to a wide range of people searching for pathways to enlighten their lives. His elixir of life was to help people “see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it” (Campbell, 2003, p. xiv). The he- ro’s journey is his gift, his “ultimate boon” (Campbell, 2008, p. 29) for the human condition and social world. It represents a universal motif which runs through virtually all kinds of change, transformation, and growth. The main objective of this special issue of the Journal of Genius and Eminence is to explore the multi-faceted potential of the hero’s journey and perhaps shed new light on it. The introduction gives an overview of Campbell’s ultimate boon and a summa- ry of each of the 12 articles that follow. Distinguished scientists and outstanding practitioners have joined this journey in tribute to Campbell and the 30th anniversary of his death. The contributors take us far and wide, exploring different ways to explore Campbell’s thoughts, allowing insights into the nuances and subtleties of his mythological world, and striking new ways to illuminate the Campbellian universe. People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning similarities and the common ground of myths. Although for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. Campbell analysed the elementary ideas of myths worldwide I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of for common ground, he did point out that their expression is being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely specific in the different socio-cultural environments. Myths physical plane will have resonances within our own resonate with local need, but are revered by every people on innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel earth, “appearing everywhere in new combinations, while the rapture of being alive. (Campbell & Moyers, remaining, like the elements of a kaleidoscope, only a few 1991, p. 1) and always the same” (Campbell, 2007, p. 15). He made this thought even more concrete: Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) is one of the most influential and innovative mythographers of the 20th century. His We may therefore think of any myth or rite either seminal life-time achievement is no doubt his modeling as a clue to what may be permanent or universal in of a single great story, the essence of (all) heroic stories human nature (in which case our emphasis will be he calls the hero’s journey. The basic motif of the journey psychological, or perhaps even metaphysical), or, is to leave one condition and finding the source of life to on the other hand, as a function of the local scene, bring the hero’s social world forth into a richer condition. the landscape, the history, and the sociology of the In his foundational work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, folk concerned (in which case our approach will be Campbell (2008) regarded the monomyth as universal across ethnological or historical). (Campbell, 1991, p. 461) time and space. He was therefore less interested in cultural and regional differences and more in the discovery of the Campbell was deeply influenced by Jung’s (1969) Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed conceptualization of the archetype, Rank’s (1952) to Stephan Sonnenburg, Faculty Management & Performance, psychological approach to myths, and Zimmer’s (1992) Karlshochschule International University, Karlstrasse 36-38, 76133 mythological Indian studies. Campbell’s insights also parallel Karlsruhe, Germany. Email: [email protected]. developments in ritual theory offered by van Gennep (1960) 2 SONNENBURG
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