Source: Z. Krupinski, used with permission. Human history has been debased by the recurring tragic pattern of villainous leaders rising to power and committing massive atrocities. Vladimir Putin is ...

The shape is, in the language of scholars, the monomyth or aptly called, the Hero's Journey. Gilgamesh can be counted as the earliest example of fantasy literature. A ruler seeking the elixir of life, ...

Like millions of people around the world, I watched Lance Armstrong admit his life was “one big lie” to Oprah Winfrey last night. There were no real surprises. I finally stopped believing Lance last ...

“Rather than confine his subject matter to myth and the human mind, Campbell found in myth, the key to the cosmos as a whole.” —Robert Segal Three decades after The Empire Strikes Back, the Star Wars ...

When you tell someone a story, do you plan it out beforehand so that it’ll sound good? Do you carefully plot what you’ll say, in a specific order? Or does the story find a way of telling itself, the ...