Mythos — Season 1, Episode 5: The Mystical Life: Non-biblical mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit

Episode synopsis

"The Mystical Life" describes that the seed of the soul is where the inner and the outer worlds meet. While the outer world changes with time, the inner world, or soul, is constant to the human race. It is through myth that provides the link between these two worlds.

About Mythos

Mythos is a three-part documentary that consists of a series of lectures given by Joseph Campbell. Campbell conceived of the original lectures, filmed over the last six years of his life, as a summation of what he had learned about the human mythic impulse, in terms of psychology, ethnology and comparative mythology—what he called "the one great story of mankind."

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Psyche & Symbol: The psychological impulse for and response to myth
• E2The Spirit Land: How myths awakened American Indians to the mystery of life
• E3On Being Human: The emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies
• E4From Goddesses to God: The gradual shift from the Goddess to male, warlike deities