About this episode

Dr. David Hopkins discusses the feeling of being stuck in modern life and introduces a series on Joseph Campbell's work.

You wake up. You scroll. You go to work. You come home. You do it again. Somewhere underneath all of it is a quiet feeling that this cannot be what a life is for, and modern culture has trained you to keep moving so you never sit with it. In this episode of the Intellectual Freedom Podcast, Dr. David Hopkins opens a new series on Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces and names the feeling out loud. You are stuck. You know you are stuck. And there is a reason. Over the next several ...

People in this episode

Host: David D. Hopkins

Topics covered

• modern life
• emptiness
• self-discovery
• Joseph Campbell
• hero's journey
• cultural critique

Keywords

• modern life
• emptiness
• self-discovery
• hero's journey
• Joseph Campbell
• cultural critique

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Books & works: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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