{"product_id":"liturgies-of-the-wild-myths-that-make-us","title":"Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Martin Shaw is a writer, mythographer, and Christian thinker who has authored seventeen books. He holds a visiting position at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University and is a fellow of the Temenos Academy. He founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University and is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK. For thirty years Shaw has been a wilderness rites-of-passage guide, working with men and women seeking a deeper life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A journey of heart-expanding magic and redemption.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e-- \n\u003cb\u003eGLEN HANSARD\u003c\/b\u003e, singer-songwriter and Academy Award winner for \n\u003ci\u003eOnce \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"From our greatest living storyteller, a validation of all that is awe-inspiring and implicit in a world where we are confined by the explicit and banal.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e-- \n\u003cb\u003eIAIN MCGILCHRIST\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \n\u003ci\u003e The Master and His Emissary\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A book that will help seekers, doubters, and believers alike appreciate faith anew, not by reinventing Christianity, but by retelling its story through the experience of a thousand other stories. Read it . . . then read it again. It will do your soul so much good.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e-- \n\u003cb\u003eJUSTIN BRIERLEY\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here is a rosary of soaring myth, gripping narrative, and deep wisdom, all told with breathtaking verve that enchants and sweeps us along, from first word to last. A superb, inspiring read.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e-- \n\u003cb\u003eGABOR MATÉ\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Normal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Shaw is a harbinger, a sign of the shift in consciousness that all of us, trapped in our techno-bubbles, so desperately need.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e-- \n\u003cb\u003eMALCOLM GUITE\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \n\u003ci\u003eMariner: A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Decades of learning, practice, and refinement shine in every line.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e-- \n\u003cb\u003eMARK VERNON\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \n\u003ci\u003eAwake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I loved this tender, honest book for the way it defamiliarizes the well-worn pathways of religion, bringing to life the power within and compelling the reader to take note: Here be dragons, but also grace in almost indecently extravagant abundance.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e-- \n\u003cb\u003eCATHERINE COLDSTREAM\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \n\u003ci\u003eCloistered: My Years as a Nun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here is a rosary of soaring myth, gripping narrative, and deep wisdom, all told with breathtaking verve that enchants and sweeps us along, from first word to last. A superb, inspiring read.\" --GABOR MATÉ, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Normal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom \"one of the greatest storytellers we have\" (Robert Bly), an urgent invitation to allow the oldest stories--and the Greatest Story--to reshape our own.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's an old Irish belief that if you aren't wrapped in a cloak of story you will be unprepared for what the world will hurl at you. You remain adolescent at just the moment a culture worth its salt requires you to become a real, grown, human being. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \n\u003ci\u003eLiturgies of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed mythographer, storyteller and Christian thinker Martin Shaw argues that we live in a myth-impoverished age and that such poverty has left us vulnerable to stories that may not wish us well. Drawing on the \"ancient technologies\" of myths and initiatory rites, Shaw provides a road to wholeness, maturity and connection. He teaches us to read a myth the way it wants to be read; provides vivid retellings of tales powerful enough to carry you through life's travails; and shows you how to gather and reshape your own thrown-away stories. Most vividly, he shares how these ancient technologies led him--unexpectedly--to Christ, \"the True Myth,\" by way of a thirty-year journey and a 101-night vigil in a Dartmoor forest. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining scholarly erudition with nimble storytelling in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. 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