Personal Mythology: Using Ritual, Dreams, and Imagination to Discover Your Inner Story
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Each and every one of us grapples with our own highly personal mythology-the psychic force that allows us to weave the fragments of our experience into coherent story. These mythologies shape our every thought, perception, and action, helping us to feel safe and secure in our identities. But when our personal mythologies do not grow and change along with us, we find ourselves stuck in self-defeating life patterns.In Personal Mythology, David Feinstein, Ph.D., and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., hailed by Jean Houston as “masters of the geography of the inscapes,” provide a series of detailed exercises developed over a combined 80 years of clinical practice, personal development workshops, and teaching on psychological topics. Using ritual, dreams, and imagination to liberate you from the mythologies of your childhood and culture, the 12-week course will ignite the mystery of a transformed inner life into authentic outer expression. This third edition of a life-changing classic has been revised to include a new Support Guide combining their ground-breaking model for incorporating Energy Psychology into the process of personal transformation.
Publisher : Energy Psychology Press; 3rd First Edition, First ed. (January 1, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 160415036X
ISBN-13 : 978-1604150360
Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.87 x 9 inches
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Magdelena –
Textbook
Worked through the text as part of a Master’s level course at Atlantic University. (Online classes with Professor and student interaction) Lots of practical information, exercises and reveries and meditations to help discover the myths and symbols you live by, how they impact your life and what you can do to transform or replace them if you are unhappy with the affect they are having in your life. This book is truly a workbook, set up for 12 weeks, and not something you just read through. It’s all about practical application. If I had just bought it to read on my own, I doubt I would have gotten through it in 12 weeks or even 24. The exercises take time and serious attention but area also playful and enlightening if you apply yourself to the tasks.
Lovestoread –
Creative approach to discovering oneself in this book
I really enjoyed the inquisitive nature of how myths and rituals can help you discover your inner core! Very well thought out premise along with some excellent applications. For example, the case of the Vietnam veteran,Steve, who returns home to help others as a medical doctor only to find out he still suffers PTSD, like his clients. Very articulate in the manner the authors show how one can discover onself. In this case, Steve tried to disown part of his military past only to find,as Carl Jung states,” one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Well done! Highly Recommend.
likewaterflow –
Beautifully written and hidden with many wise tales and concepts
This book will open you up to the myths that you unconsciously live by on a daily bases. It is a guide to your own true self. Beautifully written and hidden with many wise tales and concepts. Must read!
Green Stone –
Great introduction to observing core life patterns/myths
This is a friendly, encouraging, empowering guide to beginning to look at your life (and really take the reins of your life and empower yourself to live intentionally) vis-a-vis its core patterns, which one could see as “myths”. A more “scientific” but less engaging term might be “psychologically constructed realities” (pg 267), and Feinstein and Krippner state that they use “personal mythology” instead mainly because they find it to be the best, user-friendly term. PErsonal mythology thus becomes the process by which we interpret and make meaning of everything that happens to us, by which our behavior is directed, and it often operates “outside conscious awareness.” To use “personal mythology” in this practical, utilitarian fashion does make its metaphors accessible for those they seek to help, something that their many exercises do so well (and they give many poignant real-life examples from clients of theirs), and it does I think accurately represent the meaning of “mythology.” Yet I feel a longing, when I read the book, to have something deeper and more mysterious than science be recognized as the source of our individual processes of mythmaking, and relations to symbols and archetypes.Feinstein and Krippner highlight a modern dilemma that too few people have fully grappled with: we live at a time of numerous competing mythologies, or psychologically constructed realities, and we are each charged with the awesome responsibility of becoming aware of and/or creating our own “personal mythology.” They also point out that the continuing existence of our planet may depend upon our ability to rise to this task. They use creative exercises and methods of writing down what you perceive as the guiding myths of your parents and grandparents, journeying with guided visualization, work with our “Inner Shaman”, rituals, storytelling/writing, dreamwork, creation of a “Personal Shield” of symbols, finding and locating a “Power Object” to help people begin what is truly a journey of the Soul.This is a good book for the beginner on this path of discovering what his/her unconscious mythology is, and then beginning to intentionally pursue a CONSCIOUS and chosen mythology instead. HOwever the more experienced journeyer along the path of personal mythology will find this book too elementary, and would probably do better to explore more deeply within Jungian-archetypal psychology, and within the realm of his/her preferred archetypes, symbols, art, music, myth, fairy tale, mystical, Pagan, esoteric mystery tradition, or directly from the divine or the earth herself. ON the other hand, if the experienced journeyer, or any practicing psychotherapist wants a model of a “study plan” to help guide others toward uncovering their own preferred personal mythology, this book could be a good text for that.
Annette M. Marcus –
Personal Mythology
Another interesting read for those who are interested in inner life studies and transpersonal subjects. Not for everyone and the exercises are a little weird. Hey, whatever…
Mike Bova –
Five Stars
A great guide to personal transformation!
Knittens –
This is about the original 1988 first edition.
I have not read the 2007 edition but have used the 1988 edition personally and with psychotherapy clients and college students for years. To those who find it âgoofy â or âweird,â please be reminded that we cannot force access to or override the unconscious through cognitive behavioral means only. For one thing, as neuroscience reminds us daily, our nervous systems are multidimensional, relational, and gathering and correlating our experiences in many ways, not just âlogicallyâ. Therefore, to access and work with this content, personal mythology if you will, we need tools that speak the language of the unconscious: creative arts, guided imagery, trance work, etc. The original volume lays out a path for this exploration and how to work with the unearthed knowledge brilliantly. It does take curiosity, patience, courage and self compassion.
Christine L –
I recommend