Your Mythic Journey

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We all tell stories about who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. These personal myths in turn shape who we become and what we believe—as individuals, families, and nations. This book offers readers the tools to detect the story line in their own lives and to write and tell it to others, opening up a hidden world of self-discovery and meaning. The numerous accessible exercises are followed by examples of personal stories and inspiring quotes to stimulate the journey to the center of one’s purpose.

“By the art of fantasy and imagination, story and image, these authors map the ways personal stories deepen into transpersonal mythic journeys.” —David Miller, Ph.D., Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion, Syracuse University

Your Mythic Journey Preface by Sam Keen
Preface by Anne Valley-Fox
1. To Tell a Story
2. The Key
3. The Present: It’s a Long Way to Here and Now
The Public Self
The Private Self
The Unknown Self
Bodymind
Friendly Eyes or Deadly Watchers
Sex: What Is It We Really Want?
Time Frames: Where Is Now?
4. The Past: It’s Still Happening
Clan and Family
Tribes
The Geography of the Psyche
Morals, Manners, and Folk Tales
Relics and Talismans
Gifts and Wounds
Heroes and Villains
The Beloved Enemy
Punctuating Time: Rites of Passage
5. The Future: You Are What You Want
Death: The Awful Certainty
The Art of Fantasy
Dreams
Suffering: Fate and Freedom
Planning to Be Human
6. Cosmic Time: Transcending Here and Now
The Two-Faced World
Miracles, Magic, and Synchronicity
Paradise: Lost and Found
Good and Evil – and Beyond
Flying In and Out of Time
7. The End and the BeginningSam Keen is a noted author and lecturer who has written thirteen books on philosophy and religion. He earned graduate degrees from the Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University, and spent twenty years working as an editor of Psychology Today. Keen coproduced the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Faces of the Enemy, and was the subject of a PBS special with Bill Moyers entitled Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen. When not writing or traveling around the world lecturing and giving seminars on a wide range of topics, Keen cuts wood, tends to his farm in the hills above Sonoma, takes long hikes, and practices the flying trapeze.US

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