The Hero and the Goddess The Odyssey as Pathway to Personal Transformation [Paperback]

All great stories can change our lives, and practically none is more transformational than Homer’sThe Odyssey, which had a power so great that it launched Greek civilization and has influenced the West ever since. In this fresh approach to self-realization, human potentials leader Jean Houston provides empowering experiential exercises at every key stage of Homer’s epic to makeThe Odysseyour own journey. As we set sail with Odysseus, together we endure loss and suffering, the search for the divine Beloved, and the joy of finally arriving home. Tapping the power of these archetypes, says Houston, helps us effect healing in areas that have kept us immobilized and anguished. By raising our own tragic dimension to a mythic level, we awaken to a larger, nobler life.

In Praise of The Hero and the Goddess

Jean Houston, like an archaelogist of the human spirit probing the great myths and mysteries, continues to remind us why we are here on this earth.—Armand Assante, actor, star ofThe Odyssey

Jean Houston brings down fire from heaven to empower and inspire individual lives.—Larry Dossey, M.D., author ofHealing WordsandBe Careful What You Pray For...You Might Just Get It

In Praise of Jean Houston

Joseph Campbell:
I think that Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of the disciplines of inward turned contemplation.

Margaret Mead:
Jean is a great producer, a creator of significant events. . . as she orchestrates the myriad new voices expressing alternatives of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra:
Jean Houston reminds us that we need a new mythology for our age. Without myths, a society becomes sterile and is bereft of meaning and soul. I recommend her highly to those who want to restore the magical and the miraculous in their lives.