Not familiar with all the authors and speakers? As you prepare
for Mythic Journeys, here’s a list ten essential
books on Myth in contemporary art, life, and psychology that make a good start.
You’ll also find recommended reading and book reviews
in every issue of Mythic Passages,
our free e-newsletter.
The
Power of Myth By Joseph Campbell
The Soul’s Code by
James Hillman
From the Beast to the Blonde
by Marina Warner
Sacred Narrative: Reading in the
Theory of Myth by Alan Dundes
Touch Magic by Jane Yolen
The Maiden King: The Reunion of
Masculine and Feminine by Marion Woodman and Robert Bly
Once and Future Myths by
Phil Cousineau
The Essential Rumi by Coleman
Barks
Someplace To Be Flying
by Charles de Lint (or The Wood Wife by Terri Windling)
The House of the Spirits
By Isabel Allende
If you still want to read more, try these books on Myth in
Psychology:
The Mythological Unconscious
by Michael Vannoy Adams
Healing Fiction
by James Hillman
The Dream and the Underworld
by James Hillman
Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological
Transformation by Marion Woodman
We by Robert Johnson (Also
check out He and She.)
Working with Images
by Benjamin Sells
The Grail Legend by Emma
Jung and Marie-Louise Von Franz
Recommended reading and viewing in the Arthurian
Legends.
These and other books,
as well as films and music CDs (including many by Mythic
Journeys guest speakers), are available in the Mythic Imagination online
bookstore. We'll add more soon.
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