A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story - Hardcover

Houston, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062502816 ISBN 13: 9780062502810

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1996

Synopsis

A pioneer of the human potential movement explains how readers can reach their full potential and discover their true calling by connnecting to the lives of the heroes and heroines of archetypal myths

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Review:

This autobiography is at times mindboggling (how comes she did meet all the right people at the right time), at times hilarious (wait till you read how she speaks to her dog) and always interesting and intriguing. Jean Houston touches all the right spots when she describes her spiritual yearnings from childhood on, the trials and tribulations along the way, and the excitement of finding answers and of helping others to discover their own path. She is an excellent storyteller, and I found the book fast paced and entertaining. And packaged in this life story is so much interesting and useful information, and inspiration for further reading - I can only highly recommend the book. --Reader

From the Back Cover:

In 'A Mythic Life', Jean Houston- celebrated author, renowned psychologist, and pioneer of the Human Potential movement- uses the story of her life to show each of us how we can discover mythic qualities present in our own lives. Building upon the work of Joseph Cambell, Houston shows how these mythic patterns that underlie all of our lives are repeated again and again- across cultures and across time.

JEAN HOUSTON, PH.D., is the best-selling author of fifteen books including 'The Possible Human' and 'The Search for the Beloved', and an internationally renowned psychologist, scholar, philosopher, and teacher. A consultant to the United nations, UNICEF, and other international agencies, Houston presents transformational workshops to people and organisations all over the world. She lives in Pomona, New York.

"Jean Houston is my hero: a brilliant storyteller. A witty and provocative writer. A soulful woman. A tantalising 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'

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0062502816
• ISBN 13: 9780062502810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340