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Your mythic journey : finding meaning in your life through writing and storytelling / Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox.
LIBRA - Special BF697.5.S43 K44 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keen, Sam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-perception.
- Myth--Psychology.
- Myth.
- Storytelling--Psychological aspects.
- Storytelling.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 129 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 To Tell a Story 1
- 2 The Key 5
- 3 The Present: It's a Long Way to Here and Now 7
- 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 35
- 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 74
- Death: The Awful Certainty
- The Art of Fantasy
- Dreams
- Suffering: Fate and Freedom
- Planning to Be Human
- 6 Cosmic Time: Transcending Here and Now 104
- 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 128.
- Notes:
- Updated ed. of: Telling your story. 1973.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Keen, Sam. Your mythic journey.
- ISBN:
- 0874775434
- 9780874775433
- OCLC:
- 19722185
- Online:
- Publisher description
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