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

Jean Houston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062502824 ISBN 13: 9780062502827

Publisher: HarperOne, 1997

Synopsis

Bob Woodward made Jean Houston national news in the summer of 1996 when he revealed her working friendship with Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, Woodward reported, connected most enthusiastically with Dr. Houston and anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson when they met with the Clintons at a Camp David retreat that also included presentations by Marianne Williamson, Anthony Robbins, and Stephen Covey. Dr. Houston subsequently consultedregularly at the White House, especially helping Mrs. Clinton with herbestselling book It Takes a Village.The tabloid press had a field day, but the sensationalistic coverage onlyrevealed how out of touch the popular media are with the profound role that advanced psychology and spirituality play in people's lives today. Jean Houston is at the cutting edge of the work on realizing the fullness of our human potential, which is as mainstream and pervasive in our culture ascomputer technology.A Mythic Life presents Jean Houston's real story and her true teaching. Here draws on her personal history and vast cultural knowledge to show how we can experience in our own lives the greater human story that is revealed myths and discover our real potential.

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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: HarperOne
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0062502824
• ISBN 13: 9780062502827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340