First published in 1955, the Urantia Book boldly claims to be a revelation of truth to our world from a friendly and well-ordered universe. A revelation, in book form, intended to help guide humankind into a new era of evolutionary progress. It provides a deeper appreciation and understanding of our...

This book uses material from Joseph Cambell, C.G. Jung, Robert Bly and many, many other enlightened authors.(65 articles all together)It is a highly useful tool for individual and group development.a quote-"The shadow goes my many familiar names: the disowned self, the lower self, the dark twin or brother in bible...

The 1990s have witnessed a sort of renaissance in cave art, thanks to new discoveries from the south of France. Previously, the oldest examples of human art were thought to have been painted 15,000 years ago. When these three spelunkers-turned-authors happened upon the Chauvet cave (named after one of them),...

Contemporary Westerners look for spiritual guides to help them find the way to a more wholesome, productive lifestyle, and this fascinating book offers an introduction to a particular kind of guide, the Bodhisattva figures of the Buddhist tradition. Explaining the psychology of bodhisattva practice, imagery, and imagination, Bodhisattva Archetypes identifies...

Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view. While not romanticizing...

"Nor Hall has culled new flowers from old vines..." A personal poetical response to the eternal female, past, present, and future with details that ever connect the female to Mother Moon.

An in-depth study of victim psychology based on historical ritual dreams, mythology and case material. Shows that scapegoating is a way of denying one's own dark side by projecting it onto others. "The term scapegoat is applied to individuals and groups who are accused of causing misfortune. Scapegoating means finding...

Works like Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces have introduced readers to the significance of myth and archetype in our lives. Carol Pearson’s bestselling The Hero Within takes us further by combining literature, anthropology, and psychology to clearly define with insight and understanding, the six heroic archetypes that...

Myths, explains filmmaker and author Phil Cousineau in, are stories that belong to the "once and the future" because they evoke "the timeless concerns of human beings--birth, death, time, good, and evil, creativity and destruction." In his excellent Once and Future Myths, the author of The Art of Pilgrimage shows readers how mythology...

J.R.R. Tolkien had a great knowledge of and love for world mythology and the symbol of the Ring in his work contains a rich and fascinating heritage. Tolkien's Ring is a literary detective work about J.R.R. Tolkien's inspiration and sources. It shows how The Lord of the Rings is the...

In "Moby-Dick" and the Mythology of Oil, Bob Wagner casts Melville's epic novel as a lesson for the ages, one that is critical for us in today's petroleum age. Wagner's interpretation of Melville's tale connects directly with today's world, even with today's headlines. Readers concerned with the American economic experience...

Possibly the best introduction to Zen philosophy ever written for the West. It takes you through its roots in Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism, explaining the principles and symbols of both, down to its artistic expressions. Written with an uncanny ability to explain rationally the irrational, it's a book where every...

From the Author I wrote Goddesses in Everywoman as a psychology of women, that has over the past fifteen years since I wrote it, become something of a classic. I've been told how useful it has been to facilitate discussions between mothers and daughters, sisters, and friends about their differences and similarities....

The book is about the relationship of despair and creative inspiration. It resonates with the insights of James Hillman and Joseph Campbell, offering a way to turn despair into a self-illumination that can prove the source of powerful creative insights. It explores the lives of famous luminaries known to have suffered from despair and...

"WE retells the myth of Tristan and Iseult, one of the earliest romance tales, and uses it as a reference point to explain the essence and meaning of romantic love. Employing Jungian philosophy, Robert A. Johnson uncovers many of the unconscious beliefs about love shared by both sexes and shows...

An elegant and yet probing look at the lives and teachings of four of the most influential personalities in the hinstory of human thought.

  How to Ride a Dragon is a beautifully crafted tapestry of mythology, fantasy, narrative and first-hand human experience that tells the stories of 22 women, their families and friends, and their epic struggles coming to terms with cancer. In 1999, in a conversation with her friend Eleanor Nielsen at...

Myth, Magic & Metaphor takes the reader on a journey into the heart of creativity: the book attempts to awaken the aesthetic sense and the creative muse who lurks within us all. Today, in a cognitive and technical society, people become more and more removed from the instinctive aspect of...

Extending the sensibility of Joseph Campbell, Ford exposes readers to African myths and folk tales, finding that they harbor both culturally specific and universal motifs. Ford (Where Healing Waters Meet) has a diverse background in business, chiropractic, psychotherapy and African-American history. He recounts many traditional African stories, exploring their metaphors,...

Peter Brook's career, beginning in the 1940s with radical productions of Shakespeare with a modern experimental sensibility and continuing to his recent work in the worlds of opera and epic theater, makes him perhaps the most influential director of the 20th century. Cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and director...

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes...

A 19th Century book Comprising The Principal Popular Traditions And Superstitions Of Scandinavia, North Germany, And The Netherlands.

This contemporary novel explores mythological sources for many of the spiritual problems now errupting in the Middle East. It is an action story, whereby a journalist, the protagonist, joins forces with a Jungian Analyst, the helper, to search out the causes of religious fanatics in Jerusalem. Set in 1992, the...