Phil Cousineau

Phil Cousineau

Author, filmmaker, mythologist

PHIL COUSINEAU is a freelance writer, documentary filmmaker, independent scholar, creativity consultant, and leader of mythology-based tours to sacred sites all over the globe. He has published over 40 books, including several best-sellers such as The Hero’s Journey: The Life and Work of Joseph Campbell, The Art of Pilgrimage, and The Olympic Odyssey: The : Rekindling the Spirit of the Great Games. His most recent works include The Book of Roads, Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? and The Lost Notebooks of Sisyphus. Cousineau has also written or co-written over twenty-five award-winning documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated “Forever Activists: Stories from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade,” and the landmark “The Peyote Road: Ancient Religion in Contemporary Crisis,” which helped guarantee religious freedom for Native Americans. Between 2009 and 2019, he has served as host and cowriter of “Global Spirit,” airing on PBS and LINK-TV. Cousineau has worked for decades as a story consultant on Myth in the Movies for Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm, and Pixar Animation Studios, as well as consulting on the myth of sports for Major League Baseball, and NFL Films. Currently, he lives with his family on Telegraph Hill, in North Beach, San Francisco.

"At Eleusis, one realises, if never before, that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. At Eleusis, one becomes adapted to the cosmos. Outwardly Eleusis may seem broken, disintegrated with the crumbled past; actually, Eleusis is still intact and it is we who are broken, dispersed, crumbling to dust. Eleusis lives; lives eternally in the midst of a dying world."
Henry Miller

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