The Hero and the Goddess: The Odyssey as Mystery and Initiation (Transforming Myths Series) (Paperback)

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Product Description

A synthesis of psychology, anthropology, history, and the New Physics employs The Odyssey as a metaphor for the rebirth of consciousness and provides exercises and dramatic enactments enabling readers to explore their own life stories.

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1st edition (February 25, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345365674
• ISBN-13: 978-0345365675
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,003,614 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing the wounded warrior through the Divine Feminine, May 14, 2002

By	Robert Moss (Way of the Dreamer, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I very much hope that a publisher will move to get this wonderful book back into print and into the hands of the many readers who will be inspired by it to remember their spiritual identity and purpose and to follow it with greater courage and clarity and passion. "The Hero and the Goddess" is a beautiful extended meditation on the classic journey of a wounded warrior through many tests and ordeals into profound healing in the realms of women, through the nurturing power of the Divine Feminine. In requickening the remarkable vision journey recounted by Homer (and the anonymous woman writer who may have helped compose "The Odyssey", as Robert Graves believed) Jean Houston helps us understand how the true Guide of our life - the Friend of the soul - is never distant, and is always seeking to help us live from the depths and think from the heart. I frequently quote this book in my transformational workshops, and it is one of the seminal works that inspired me in writing my own book "Dreamgates".

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Reawakening, October 9, 2001

By	Carl M. Toney, P.A. (Portland, ME United States) - See all my reviews

I found Jean Houston's "The Hero and the Goddess" to be wonderfully tapestry- A retelling of "The Odessy" in its classic form, while utilzing analysis and [individual/group] exercises to help the reader make the connections between the messages of the story and the unrecognized/untapped potential within each of us in our every day lives.