Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Hero and the Goddess
The Hero and the Goddess: The Odyssey as Pathway to Personal Transformation | Jean Houston
2 posts | 1 read
All great stories can change our lives, and practically none is more transformational than Homer’s The Odyssey, which had a power so great that it launched Greek civilization and has influenced the West ever since. In this fresh approach to self-realization, human potentials leader Jean Houston provides empowering experiential exercises at every key stage of Homer’s epic to make The Odyssey our own journey. As we set sail with Odysseus, together we endure loss and suffering, the search for the divine Beloved, and the joy of finally arriving home. "Tapping the power of these archetypes," says Houston, "helps us effect healing in areas that have kept us immobilized and anguished. By raising our own tragic dimension to a mythic level, we awaken to a larger, nobler life."
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
review
ravenlee
Bailedbailed

And I‘m out. This book is from 1992, and suffers greatly from the hippie philosophy/psychology movement of that time. Just post-Cold War reactionism, etc.
Also, I thought this was a study of the relationship between Odysseus and Athena (my absolute favorite subject) and it is a new age guide to discovering the hero and goddess within...or something.
#doublespin is a DNF. Just like my #bookspin. Not a great month. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Bummer!!! Another one off the list, I guess! I ended up bailing on my pick this month, too. 😕 4y
30 likes1 comment
blurb
ravenlee
post image

All right, @TheAromaofBooks , I‘m going in for my #doublespin - fingers crossed it goes better for me than my #bookspin pick did. And that I have the brainpower for it!