The Mythic Path: Discovering the Guiding Stories of Your Past-Creating a Vision for Your Future

I am studying mythic path because I always wanted to be a hero, studying Lucas Films and John Williams music and Joseph Campbell. It is sort of my religion.My mother is 97 and very old. Naomi Feil writes that I must validate her to have her find resolution and prepare her for death.My heroic theme is equality, so I will be reviewing my personal values, as well as inviting her to review hers.Simply playing the role of helping her analyze emotional themes in movies without bringing my own life concerns into it is not enough. I must participate in her resolution for healing.This is a hard book. I am looking for where my myth is in conflict. Perhaps, now, driven by jealousy of others with job security to compete as a scholar I will find another drive to join with others smarter than I to follow my love and destiny Physics. My mother, a doctor, was driven by jealousy of men to compete as a doctor. Now, my mom must have visits from someone smarter than her, me, and yet have fun and give me fun, as well as I give to the great minds I will work with.From being driven by jealousy to that of mutual inspiration will take work. This book can help me. Perhaps it can help you.

Deeply transformative- David Feinstein is the best - he will guide you step by step to understanding yourself in the depths of your psyche - in this edition he also has methods from his wife Donna Eden - on energetic methods that actually work to help you change your energies so that you can change and heal. The combination of the energy medicine practices and the deep psychological knowledge can change consciousness. This works.

I love this book; ofcourse, I would read anything by Stanley Krippner. I have about 6 of his books now. I am using this book for a course I am taking called Personal Mystical Journey.

Life changing book by one of my professors. I have since worked through this book with clients and recommended to friends!

Just as described! Thank you!

I have been resisting the attempts of social reality to crush creative individual subjectivity, but this book is so clear in how people are projections of the expectations that are fulfilled when a self can be imposed as the limitations of a time and space that I read a part of The Mythic Path on coherence to see how long it can take for such ideas to settle into a personification.A few decades ago I was examining vet reactions to post trauma therapy and the kind of communication without content was described as there is no there there. We have a theological streak as deep as Kierkegaard trying to get love in a finite ditch of relationships with a scholarly approach in  Wisdom In Love: Kierkegaard And The Ancient Quest For Emotional Integrity . Socrates was considered long and hard by Kierkegaard and by an expert on Freud and Nietzsche, the late French professor Sarah Kofman in  Socrates: Fictions of a Philosopher . Literary life began in magic, myth, religion, and the future of a nation of shoppers who could all stop shopping at the same time to watch each other die in a woodchuck festival of peace, love, music and death was called Lemmings.  National Lampoon Lemmings [Explicit ].

Stanley Krippner and David Feinstein's work in The Mythic Path book is nothing short of amazing. I used the book as a textbook in one of my classes at Pacifica. The book takes the reader through simple yet effective self-exploration exercises that get at the foundational (and often hidden) beliefs about life, family, work, and relationships. This is an exploratory tool for recognizing and re-patterning these core beliefs. And it does so without an overlay of external symbolic systems. Krippner and Feinstein's approach to mythology is in "personal mythology", so it does not explore the global themes in world mythology and folklore. Rather, it asks the reader to express the core values of his or her life. In this way the book doesn't confuse personal stories with compelling external narratives. Rather, it a sincere plumbing of one's own personal depths. And an imaginative exploration of what the present and future now have to offer.

The `Mythic Path' provides readers and seekers the ability throughout 12 weeks to contact their mythic path, to heal their childhood wounds, to create a personal creation myth and connect with their inner selves. "Personal mythology is but the flower on the bush" and it is this flower that one is asked to explore. The book is composed of five stages where the reader is asked to identify their personal myth using elements of the Socratic thesis, the second stage where they identify their opposing conflicting myth, a third stage of synthesis, the fourth stage of testing the `hypothesis' and the fifth stage where the myth is woven into everyday life and action.The stages and the program provides all the necessary tools to discover these inner personal myths through dreams and inner images, and through careful instructions on how to cultivate these myths and understand them. The incredible degree to which the book walks one through the process, the insight into ancient Greek mythmaking is a real value for anyone searching for meaning in life and hoping to discover themselves. This is an immensely successful and all encompassing program and it should be embarked upon with care and after a period of reflection of what commitments it entails, but surely it provides many answers for people feeling lost or empty, and even for those who feel they have all the answers.Seth J. Frantzman

Wonderful and fun. Well laid out and certainly interesting even if it feels a tad bit dated in its enthusiasm.