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000-YEAR-OLD STORIES
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ANCIENT MYTHS
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BETRAYALS
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CLIMATE CHAOS
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CULTURE
DEATH
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DISABILITY
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EXCLUSION
EXILE
GRIEF
ILLNESS
INITIATORY JOURNEY
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MYTHOLOGY
MYTHSINGER
NATURE
OPPRESSION
OUTSIDERHOOD
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PERSONAL REVELATION
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PSYCHOLOGY
RESTORE WHOLENESS
SACRED MEDICINE
SELF
SELF-TRANSFORMATION
SHAMANISM
SOCIETY
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TRAUMA
TRUE IDENTITY
WISDOM LITERATURE

Product details

  • ISBN 9781644115688
  • Weight: 479g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Dec 2022
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Reveals myth and “otherness” as keys to restoring self, nature, and society

• Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness, death, or grief

• Synthesizes lessons from shamanic practice, quantum physics, alchemy, soul poetry, wildness, social justice, and the author’s lived experience

• Discloses the blessings of outsiderhood and the gifts and insights gained and contributed to culture by those who are marginalized and outcast

There is an “other” that lives within each of us, an exiled part that carries wisdom needed for ourselves and the culture at large. Having survived disabling polio as an infant, Daniel Deardorff knows the oppressions of exclusion and outsiderhood. He guides readers on an initiatory journey through ancient myth, literature, and personal revelation to discover our own true identity.

These 10,000-year-old stories contain sacred medicine with insights that release imagination and restore wholeness amid trauma, exile, climate chaos, disability, illness, death, and grief. Illustrating how archetypal figures of the Other--the Trickster, Daimon, Not-I, etc.--hold paradox, Deardorff teaches us to reframe disparities of self/other, civilization/ wilderness, form/deformity and transform the experience of being outcast. Synthesizing lessons from shamanic practice, quantum physics, alchemy, social justice, and his own lived experience, Deardorff affirms the disruptive and transgressive forces that break through dogma, conventionality, and prejudice. He discloses blessings of outsiderhood and gifts to culture by those who are marginalized. Through mythmaking (mythopoesis), the experience of Otherness--cultural, racial, religious, sexual, physiognomic--becomes one of empowerment, a catalyst for human liberation.
Daniel Deardorff (1952-2019) was a mythsinger, storyteller, ritualist, composer, and producer. A polio survivor and early teacher about Otherness, he toured extensively with renowned soft-rock band Seals and Crofts and produced award-winning albums for other artists. When post-polio sequelae required change, he became an independent scholar of myth teaching internationally with Robert Bly and others. Mythsingerlegacy.org continues his work restoring myth to culture and community.