How to Purchase:
* You can purchase many of Sam’s books and tapes at your local bookstore.
* OR You may send a check with your order directly to:
Sam Keen, Ph.D., 16331 Norrbom Rd., Sonoma, CA 95476, 707-996-9010 sam@samkeen.com
* Postage: US: Standard $5/book – Outside US: Standard $12/book or Express $35/book
* For questions and more information, please contact Sam Keen directly at the address above.
* All orders are fulfilled by Sam Keen, Ph.D. Fulfillment of orders depends on availability of product. If you would like your book autographed, please indicate to whom.
Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go
“[Keen uses] flying trapeze as a channel for enlightenment.” –The New York Times
“Like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Learning to Fly is both concrete and metaphorical and, as usual, Sam Keen is honest, thoughtful, wry, and inspired. In this book, flying is a metaphor for risk, transcendence, overcoming the boundaries of the self, and ecstasy. And yet, the writing isn’t so lofty that we earthbound mortals can’t learn from it. Read Learning to Fly and soar.” –Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other
“The topic of flying trapeze promises dramatic reading, but in the hands of literary maestro Sam Keen it becomes a school for living. Combining sixty-plus years of wisdom with the passion, honesty, and enthusiasm of a beginning flyer, Keen conveys how learning to fly provides a path to timeless adventure and newfound joy. Whether or not you plan to take up the trapeze, you can learn to fly.” –Dan Millman, author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
“With the same derring-do that Sam Keen has approached philosophy, religious studies, and his whole life, Keen offers a passionate view of the freedom from stagnating fears which can be attained by leaping toward the strong and outstretched hands of one’s deepest desires. Sam Keen is a man with an examined life, one of leaping, catching, and landing with both humor and verve.” –Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run with the Wolves,
“An adventure of the soul and psyche. . . . Not only is it tremendous that Sam Keen managed to fulfill his dream at the age of sixty-one, but it is wonderful that he has had the opportunity to write about his experiences for others to share and learn from.” –Sarah, Duchess of York
$14.00 * VHS available of Learning To Fly
The Passionate Life -Harper and Row
Draws on psychology, philosophy, mythology, and personal experience to explain the five stages in becoming a lover–child, rebel, adult, outlaw, and mature lover–and provides guidance in achieving awareness, maturity, and genuine passion.
$15.00
Beginnings Without End -Harper and Row – 1975
A deeply personal compendium of diary entries, poems, fantasies,stories, an account of the process of spiritual death and renewal I went through in a crisis that involved divorce, leaving the academic world and severing my roots.
“A moving, lucid and penetrating account of the places where Keen found an oasis, a helping spirit, a devouring demon, a rushing river or a tree with magical apples”
Library Journal $15.00
To A Dancing God -Harper and Row – 1970
This was the first of my explorations of philosophical, religious, educational and spiritual autobiography. Its central theme is: “Without a story of your own you haven’t got a life of your own.” This book, initiated the movement in personal mythology and inspired many theologians to recover the centrality of stories and narratives. Among the themes I develops are: the centrality of the body and the need for a carnal theology; the understanding of grace as the willingness to live without repression of embarrassing images, feelings, and desires.
$15.00
Apology for Wonder -Harper and Row – 1969
A plea for the recovery of wonder, awe and the sense of the sacred that lies at the heart of all authentic philosophy and religion.
Chosen by both Newsweek and Time magazines as one of the best 10 books in its field in 1969. It remains the linchpin of all my thinking.
$15.00