Riting Myth & The Creative Soul

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2 Book Combo - 1 copy of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing ISBN 9781926715773(Paperback) and 1 copy of The Creative Soul ISBN 9780981034447 (Paperback).

Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story by Dennis Patrick Slattery AND The Creative Soul: Art and the Quest for Wholeness by Lawrence H. Staples

About The Creative Soul:

Who we most deeply are is mirrored in our artistic work. Our need for mirroring simultaneously attracts us to and repels us from our creative callings and relationships. It is one of life's great dilemmas. Artist's block and lover's block flow from the same pool. Often, we fear deeply the very thing needed to create original art, to experience intimate relationships and to live authentic lives: we are frightened by the impulse to be fully revealed to ourselves, and to others, as this most often entails exposing the unacceptable shadowy aspects of our humanity and risking rejection.

Mirrors in all their manifold guises permit us to safely see and experience ourselves in reflection and become better acquainted with the rejected, ostracized aspects of our personalities. Creative work is one of the few places where we can truly express and witness lost aspects of our authentic selves. Within us a treasure beckons. This is what we spend our lives pursuing. What slows and distracts us is not the object we long for, but where we search. To find this precious gem, we must eventually return to our own creative spirits.

About Riting Myth, Mythic Writing

Riting Myth, Mythic Writing is a both a theoretical as well as interactive book on the nature of personal myth. Its intention is to offer participants who wish to explore further the terms and structure of their personal myth over 80 writing meditations that are spread throughout 9 chapters in order to guide the readers-writers on a pilgrimage into the deepest layers of their personal myth.

An added feature of the book are writing meditation responses from participants who have been part of the author's writing retreats in both the United States and Europe. Their power and authenticity attests to the strong desire and need of each of us to explore what myth guides us, what terms it does so within and what one can learn to become more conscious of those deep forces in the psyche that seek expression in all we do and are.

2 Book Combo - 1 copy of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing ISBN 9781926715773(Paperback) and 1 copy of The Creative Soul ISBN 9780981034447 (Paperback).