The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Myth as Metaphor and as Religion  
Author(s) Joseph Campbell
Country United States
Language English
Series Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
Genre(s) Religion/Comparative Mythology
Publisher New World Library
Publication date First published in 1986. Second edition, 1988. Third edition 2002.
Media type Print
Pages 160
ISBN 1577312090
OCLC Number 48144306
Dewey Decimal 291.1/3 21
LC Classification BL311 .C263 2002

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space was the last book completed by mythologist Joseph Campbell before his death in 1987. In it, he explores the intersections of art, psychology and religion, and discusses the ways in which new myths are born. In creating the book, Campbell drew on transcripts of a series of lectures and conversations that he gave in San Francisco in the early 1980s, including legendary symposiums with astronaut Rusty Schweickart and with members of the Grateful Dead.

Originally published by Alfred van der Mark in 1986, the book was rereleased by Harper and Row in 1988. With the publication of the third edition by New World Library in 2002, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space became the second title in the Joseph Campbell Foundation's Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series.

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Books

Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremonial (1943). with Jeff King and Maud Oakes • A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944). with Henry Morton Robinson • The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949). •

The Masks of God
(1959–1968)
Volume 1, Primitive Mythology (1959) • Volume 2, Oriental Mythology (1962) • Volume 3, Occidental Mythology (1964) • Volume 4, Creative Mythology (1968)) •

The Flight of the Wild Gander:Explorations in the Mythological Dimension (1968) • Myths to Live By (1972) • Erotic irony and mythic forms in the art of Thomas Mann (1973) • The Mythic Image (1974) • The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion (1986) •

Volume I: The Way of the Animal Powers (1983) (reprint in two parts: Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers (1988);
Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt (1988)) • Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth (Part 1: The Sacrifice (1988); Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The North Americas (1989);
Part 3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas (1989)) •
Transformations of Myth Through Time (1990) • A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991). editor Diane K. Osbon • Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce (1993). editor Edmund L. Epstein • The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays (1959–1987) (1993). editor Anthony Van Couvering • Baksheesh & Brahman: Indian Journals (1954–1955) (1995). editors Robin/Stephen Larsen & Anthony Van Couvering • Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (2001). editor Eugene Kennedy • Sake & Satori: Asian Journals - Japan (2002). editor David Kudler • Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (2003). editor David Kudler • Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (2004). editor David Kudler
Books based
upon interviews
The Power of Myth (1988). with Bill Moyers and editor Betty Sue Flowers • An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms (1989). editors John Maher and Dennie Briggs, forward by Jean Erdman Campbell • This business of the gods: Interview with Fraser Boa (1989) • The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (1990). editor Phil Cousineau
Audio tapes

The Power of Myth (With Bill Moyers) (1987) • Transformation of Myth through Time Volume 1-3 (1989) • The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Cosmogonic Cycle (Read by Ralph Blum) (1990) • The Way of Art (1990—unlicensed) • The Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell Volume 1-9 (With Michael Toms) (1993) • On the Wings of Art: Joseph Campbell; Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (1995) • The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell (With Michael Toms) (1997) •

The Collected Lectures
of Joseph Campbell
Volume 1: Mythology and the Individual (1997) • Volume 2: The Inward Journey (1997) • Volume 3: The Eastern Way (1997) • Volume 4: Man and Myth (1997) • Volume 5: The Myths and Masks of God (1997) • Volume 6: The Western Quest (1997)
Myth and Metaphor in Society (With Jamake Highwater) (abridged)(2002)
Video/DVDs
Psyche & Symbol (13 part KQED/PBS video series: Executive Producer: Aaron Miller; Director: Diane Dowling) (1976) • Transformations of Myth Through Time (1989) • Mythos (1987/1998) • Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988) • The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell (1987) (Phil Cousineau) • Myth and Metaphor in Society (With Jamake Highwater) (1993) • Sukhavati (2005)
Books edited
Gupta, Mahendranath. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942) (translation from Bengali by Swami Nikhilananda; Joseph Campbell and Margaret Woodrow Wilson, translation assistants -
see preface; foreword by Aldous Huxley) • Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. Heinrich Zimmer (1946) • The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil. Heinrich Zimmer (1948) • Philosophies of India. Heinrich Zimmer (1951) • The Portable Arabian Nights (1951) • The Art of Indian Asia. Heinrich Zimmer (1955) • Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969) • Man and Transformation: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969) • The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969) • The Mystic Vision: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969) • Spirit and Nature: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969) • Spiritual Disciplines: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969) • Myths, Dreams, Religion. Various authors (1970) • The Portable Jung. Carl Jung (1971)
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