Bob Woodward made Jean Houston national news in the summer of 1996 when he revealed her working friendship with Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, Woodward reported, connected most enthusiastically with Dr. Houston and anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson when they met with the Clintons at a Camp David retreat that also included presentations by Marianne Williamson, Anthony Robbins, and Stephen Covey. Dr. Houston subsequently consultedregularly at the White House, especially helping Mrs. Clinton with herbestselling book It Takes a Village.
The tabloid press had a field day, but the sensationalistic coverage onlyrevealed how out of touch the popular media are with the profound role that advanced psychology and spirituality play in people's lives today. Jean Houston is at the cutting edge of the work on realizing the fullness of our human potential, which is as mainstream and pervasive in our culture ascomputer technology.
A Mythic Life presents Jean Houston's real story and her true teaching. Here draws on her personal history and vast cultural knowledge to show how we can experience in our own lives the greater human story that is revealed myths and discover our real potential.

A Mythic Life: Learning to Live our Greater Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Jean Houston

Community & Culture

HarperSanFrancisco

A thrilling retelling by master storyteller Jean Houston of the legendary exploits of the founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, known as the Peacemaker. Under his leadership they created a peaceful democracy among five tribes of Native peoples in the northeastern woodlands. This story has inspired American leaders from Benjamin Franklin to the present-day occupants of the White House, and is shown by Houston to be a potent guide to personal transformation and to the visioning of a peaceful world. Jean draws from the experiential workshops she leads, with the help of Margaret (Peggy) Rubin, to guide readers through group or individual exercises that "bring the story home."

Manual for the Peacemaker: An Iroquois Legend to Heal Self and Society

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Quest Books

Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space

Robert E. L. Masters

Turnstone Books

The Search for the Beloved, one of the most important books written on the creative and inventive mind, explains the theories that helped form the foundation of the human potential movement. In what has been called “an intellectual and spiritual feast,” Jean Houston explores the nature of spiritual yearning and teaches readers how to facilitate a personal quest by focusing on the four aspects of Sacred Psychology—the Great Wound, the Mythic Journey of Transformation, the Discovery of the Larger Story, and the Union with the Beloved of the Soul. W. B. Yeats wrote, “There is but one history and that is the soul’s.” It is this great known and unknowable homeland of the human spirit that The Search for the Beloved tours. In an itinerary that leads readers to the sacred sites of the soul, Dr. Houston’s classic book is a passport for those who yearn to attune their spirits with psychological depths and spiritual heights. Probing our tragic dimensions for their deeper, more mythic meanings, so that our wounds can become the sources of spiritual grace, this book will guide readers to a larger and more sacred dimension of life. Includes a new foreword by the author.

The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology

Religion & Spirituality

TarcherPerigee

Here is the key instruction book to the mind games...exercises of education, ecstasy, entertainment, self-exploration, powerful games of growth. Masters and Houston, both human-potentials researchers of considerable experience and the authors of the 'Varieties of Psychedelic Experience,' describe and instruct the reader-player in the mental exercises they have developed scientifically to alter, explore, and regulate human consciousness.Almost anyone can play. The product of the authors' extensive researches at NY's Foundation for Mind Research, the mind games' message is hopeful: that the powers of the human being are sufficient to deal with the problems that confront us; that man is not something that has to be surpassed, but something yet to be realized.Mind games is a yoga for the West...one that draws on the findings of contemporary psychological, psychiatric, and other investigations of consciousness and latent capacities and their productive applications. There are no drug-induced practices involved...Mind games can teach anyone to use what the authors call the 'mind-brain system' more effectively; the games can improve sensory perception, magnify or accelerate mental processes, and retrieve forgotten or inhibited faculties.

Self-Help

Robert Masters

Personal Transformation

Dorset_Press

PARABOLA MAGAZINE VOLUME 33 NO 2 SUMMER 2008 Mary Oliver,David Coooper,Huston Smith, Jean Smith,Chris Bamford.

Parabola: Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2008

Smith, Huston

Mary Oliver

David Cooper

Charles Upton

Christopher Bramford

Jeff Zaleski (ed.)

morninglightpress

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