A Mythic Life
Jean Houston
"Without myths, a society becomes sterile and is bereft of meaning and soul. I recommend A Mythic Life to those who want to restore the magical and the miraculous in their lives." -- Deepak Chopra
" Jean Houston teaches the teachers. Her Mythic Life has been an epic unfoldment, a blessing to each of us who seeks in her story the deeper archetypes that animate our own. Houston herself is a force of nature." -- Marianne Williamson
"Jean Houston is my hero: A brilliant storyteller. A witty and provocative writer. A soulful woman. A tantalizing common sense intellectual. I love her and I love this delicious book." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, author of Your Erroneous Zones and Your Sacred Self.
From the story of Adam and Eve to those of Odysseus, Athena, the Little Match Girl, and Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, mythology has always helped us understand the mysteries of our lives and given meaning to our human past. But mythology is much more than a collection of archetypal tales. It is the underlying pattern that connects each of our lives to the past, to every culture on the face of the earth, and to the future of humankind.
In A Mythic Life, Houston shows how we can discover the mythic elements in our lives and explains how our mythology fits into the emerging global consciousness. Drawing from her own life experiences, as well as from the astounding wealth of cultural knowledge she has acquired while working with indigenous peoples all over the world, Houston shows how the mythic patterns that underlie each of our lives are repeated again and again -- across cultures and across time -- like the patterns that emerge from the seeming chaos in fractal images.
Harper Collins (1996)
ISBN 193072232X
$25.00
