Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling

Marc Notes: Updated ed. of: Telling your story. 1973. Table of Contents: Your Mythic Journey Preface by Sam KeenPreface by Anne Valley-Fox1. To Tell a Story2. The Key3. The Present: It's a Long Way to Here and NowThe Public SelfThe Private SelfThe Unknown SelfBodymindFriendly Eyes or Deadly WatchersSex: What Is It We Really Want?Time Frames: Where Is Now?4. The Past: It's Still HappeningClan and FamilyTribesThe Geography of the PsycheMorals, Manners, and Folk TalesRelics and TalismansGifts and WoundsHeroes and VillainsThe Beloved EnemyPunctuating Time: Rites of Passage5. The Future: You Are What You WantDeath: The Awful CertaintyThe Art of FantasyDreamsSuffering: Fate and FreedomPlanning to Be Human6. Cosmic Time: Transcending Here and NowThe Two-Faced WorldMiracles, Magic, and SynchronicityParadise: Lost and FoundGood and Evil - and BeyondFlying In and Out of Time7. The End and the BeginningPublisher Marketing: 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 Contributor Bio:  Keen, Sam Sam Keen, author of twelve books, including Fire in the Belly, served as consulting editor at Psychology Today for many years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and lives in Sonoma, California. Contributor Bio:  Valley-Fox, Anne Anne Valley-Fox lives, works, and writes in Santa Fe. She is the author of"Sending the Body Out, Fish Drum 15", and "Point of No Return", all books of poetry, and the coauthor of "Your Mythic Journey" and "Outlaws and Desperados", both nonfiction.