The Passion of Isis and Osiris: A Union of Two Souls
Jean Houston
Jean Houston's work sparkles like a jewel whose inner fire is capable of drawing the participant out of the temporal world into the eternal realm of myth and archetype, the abode of the soul. To journey with her is to reenact the Human Story and in so doing, to be healed, inspired, and transformed…." --Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
In The Passion of Isis and Osiris, Jean Houston plays midwife to the next phase of our evolutionary journey. In her hands, myths are magic. As we read this book, we are literally drawn from the smaller, personal self to the larger, universal possibility….The book is phenomenal." --Marianne Williamson
Jean Houston takes us deep into the mysteries of Egypt... land of the ancient soul within us all. It is a culture in which every moment is filled with the interplay of human and divine.
At the very center of Egyptian life, and its most eternal legacy to the world, is hieroglyphic thinking. The Egyptians created a language and perception of reality in which many meanings dance together--mind and emotion, spirit and material, thought, word, and image all coalesce in a single vibrant synergy.
Jean Houston brings this world to wonderful life, showing how the myth of Isis and Osiris gives modern readers a design for the marriage of body and soul, life and death, the tangible and the hidden. She shows how-- in detailed exercises and dramatic enactments that can be done in groups or alone-- we can identify the Isis and Osiris that are seeking reunion in each of us.
Random House 1998
ISBN 0345424778
US $19.00
