Your mythic journey : finding meaning in your life through writing and storytelling
Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox
- Los Angeles, California St. Martin's Press 1989
- 129 p
Contents: To Tell a Story The Key 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? 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 The Future: You Are What You Want Death: The Awful Certainty The Art of Fantasy Dreams Suffering: Fate and Freedom Planning to Be Human 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 The End and the Beginning
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