Varieties of Mythic Experience

Varieties of Mythic Experience
Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher: Daimon
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008
Genre: Mythology
ISBN: 3856307257

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This book presents contributions from different authors covering the mythical basis for different religions. It also shows how psychology and philosopy have been influenced by myths.

Mythic Imagination Today

Mythic Imagination Today
Author: Terry Marks-Tarlow
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004448438

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Mythic Imagination Today is an illustrated guide to the interpenetration of mythology and science throughout the ages. This monograph brings alive our collective need for story as a guide to the rules, roles, and relationships of everyday life.

Varieties of Anomalous Experience

Varieties of Anomalous Experience
Author: Etzel Cardena
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781433815294

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For much of the 20th century, unusual perceptions and sensations, radical alternations of consciousness, and other extraordinary subjective experiences were ignored as legitimate topics of study in mainstream psychology. Recent years, however, have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the scientific study of anomalous experiences. In this updated edition, the editors have invited experts to provide definitive reviews and analyses of a wide range of anomalous experiences, from commonly documented sensations and perceptions like synesthesia, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and auditory and visual hallucinations, to rarer and more seemingly inexplicable experiences, such as anomalous healing, past lives, near-death experiences, mystical experiences, and even alien abductions. The book makes a compelling case for the inclusion of these marginalized and underrecognized experiences as not merely incidental but essential to our understanding of human psychology. Book jacket.

Myths to Live by

Myths to Live by
Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1972
Genre: Mythology
ISBN:

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Examines the relevance of universal myths that influence our lives and shape human institutions and actions.

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
Author: William James
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681950898

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The Best Nonfiction Masterpiece of the 20th Century? “There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.” - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is not a book about a specific religion. The author, psychologist Williams James does not try to convince the reader one religion is better than the other. He doesn’t even make a case for atheism and the scientific approach. The book is in fact about human nature and how we experience religion at a psychological level. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Our Daily Breach

Our Daily Breach
Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher: Fisher King Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1771690291

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Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dickoffers both a way of understanding what has generally been called the greatest novel of the American myth while simultaneously exploring one’s own personal myth. Its added feature is that it is an interactive book in allowing reader’s to meditate on one question per page for each day of the year and to undercover many facets of one’s personal myth through cursive writing. It has been long understood that classics of literature are their own form of therapy in that they frequently tap into some of the most shared concerns of being human. This book makes such a connection between our interior life and the plot of the story through the power of mythopoiesis, namely the imaginative act of giving a formative shape to the myth we are each living in and out through the power of analogy, correspondence or accord with the classic poem. Using Melville’s epic of America, the reader may enter the deepest seas of his/her own mythic waters to realize and give language to the myth that resides in our daily plot line.

Your Mythic Journey

Your Mythic Journey
Author: Sam Keen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1989-09-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0874775434

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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