Title: Your mythic journey : finding meaning in your life through writing and storytelling /
Authors: Keen, Sam.; Valley-Fox, Anne.; Keen, Sam.
Publisher: J.P. Tarcher ; Distributed by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Self-perception.; Myth Psychological aspects.; Myth Psychology.; Storytelling Psychological aspects.
Abstract: 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: 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.