Sacred Stories: A Celebration of the Power of Story to Transform and Heal

by Charles Simpkinson (Editor)

Other authorsAnne Simpkinson (Editor)
Paperback, 1993

Status

Available

Publication

Harper San Francisco (1993), Edition: 1st, 288 pages

Description

This anthology brings together the storytelling wisdom of a wide range of authors - Robert Bly, Mary Catherine Bateson, Sam Keen and Maya Angelou along with a host of spiritual, Jungian and political luminaries including Matthew Fox and Charlene Spretnak. Here is a renaissance in storytelling that reflects the many cultural changes and concerns of contemporary life.

Language

ISBN

0062508520 / 9780062508522

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Library's review

An eclectic assortment of today's bestselling authors, storytellers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Sacred Stories celebrates the healing role of stories in our individual and communal lives.

Maya Angelou offers a poem that recognizes the great diversity in the human family but reminds that
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"We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike."

Robert Bly serves "Story Food for Women and for Men."

Sam Keen explores the contemporary "mythic battleground."

Vice President Al Gore explores the unwritten rules in the story of modern industrial civilization.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés's "Story as Medicine" honors story's ability to heal the wounded psyche.

In the midst of modern lives filled with noise and distractions, Sacred Stories, celebrates a renaissance in storytelling and story understanding; one that offers a means to look inward, at the story of our own lives, and outward, toward the story of our shard life earth.
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Rating

½ (2 ratings; 4.5)

Pages

288
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