Phil Cousineau

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Phil Cousineau (born in 1952) is an author, lecturer, independent scholar, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.

Contents 1 Career 2 Select Books 3 Select Filmography 4 External links

[edit] Career

Cousineau was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He studied journalism at the University of Detroit. He has worked as a sportswriter and taught screenwriting at the American Film Institute. Joseph Campbell was a mentor and major influence, Cousineau wrote the documentary film about Campbell's life, The Hero's Journey. He has worked with religion scholar Huston Smith on two books and is known as an expert in mythology and creativity.

[edit] Select Books

• Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination (2008)
• A Seat at the Table (2005)
• The Olympic Odyssey: Rekindling the True Spirit of the Great Games (2003)
• The Blue Museum (2005)
• The Book of Roads: Travel Stories
• The Soul Aflame: A Modern Book of Hours (2000)
• The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred (2000)
• Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Modern Time (2001)
• Soul: An Archaeology: From Socrates to Ray Charles (1993)
• The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work. Edited and with an Introduction by Phil Cousineau. Forward by Stuart L. Brown, Executive Editor. San Francisco: Harper and Row (1990)

[edit] Select Filmography

• A Seat at the Table: Struggling for American Religious Freedom
• The Peyote Road: Ancient Religion in Contemporary Crisis
• The Red Road to Sobriety
• Your Humble Serpent: The Life of Reuben Snake
• Ecological Design: Inventing the Future
• Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
• Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations
• Forever Activists: Stories from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
• The Presence of the Goddess
• The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell (1987)

[edit] External links

• Biography
• Interview

Joseph Campbell Foundation Fellow [1]