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    Your Mythic Journey

    Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling

    Author Sam Keen
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Tarcher
    On sale Sep 01, 1989 | 160 Pages | 9780874775433
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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 Beginning
    Sam 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. View titles by Sam Keen

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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

    Table of Contents

    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 Beginning

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    Sam 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. View titles by Sam Keen

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