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Prodigal Father Wayward Son

A Roadmap to Reconciliation Prodigal Father Wayward Son is the long awaited sequel to the bestselling Fire in the Belly and a crowning achievement of a remarkable literary career. It is also an impressive debut of a young writer that proves the adage “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”.  The rebellion of the 60’s and 70’s is writ large in the struggles between a driven father and an irrepressible son. From adventures to marriages to split ups to drugs to abandonment and to finding a way back. Sam Keen – groundbreaking philosopher and author of the bestselling Fire in the Belly helps define a movement while wreaking chaos at home; Gifford Keen...

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In The Absence of God

IN HIS NEWEST BOOK, best-selling author Sam Keen challenges the notions and hab­its we’ve formed about religion over the centuries in order for us to build a deeper faith that is rel­evant today. He asks: How has religion failed us? Must we choose between dogmatic religion and atheism? How might religion unite rather than divide us? The answers, Keen discovers, point the way back to the primal emotions, to the life-giving sense of dwelling in the presence of the sacred. In the Absence of God sets out to recover the elemental experience of the sacred in everyday life. By appreciating emotions like wonder, grati­tude, anxiety, joy, grief, reverence, compassion, outrage, hope, and humility we...

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Faces of the Enemy

This 2004 enlarged edition includes a new chapter “The New Enemy” with 32 pages of color illustrations This enlarged edition is available only from Sam Keen. The combination of the book Faces of the Enemy and the PBS documentary “The Faces of the Enemy: and the 3 lectures — The Art of Enemy Making; The New Enemy; Beyond Enmity — provide all of the essentials for a high school or college course on prejudice, propaganda and the language of warfare. Examines the techniques of propaganda used to teach us “to hate all the people our relatives hate.” Some 400 posters and cartoons show how enemies are dehumanized by portraying them as enemies of god,...

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Hymns To An Unknown God

Cutting through the deceptive and unrealistic aspects of popular spirituality, this guide for common-sense individuals demonstrates how awareness and spirituality can be effectively combined and applied to all aspects of life. “Sam Keen breathes pure life into the spiritual void we all may feel at times. . . his hymns and philosophical groundnotes contain the power to help heal the split — that nameless separation — that divides us from our world and from ourselves.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes, bestselling author of Women Who Run With the...

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To Love and Be Loved

To Love and Be Loved is a spirited challenge to a culture obsessed with romance and intimacy but dangerously ignorant of the full range and richness of human love. Love is not something we “fall” into, claims Keen, but a complex art combining many skills and talents that take a lifetime to learn. Like a fresh wind, Sam Keen sweeps away tired self-help nostrums and reams of “bad advice from Dr. Lonelyhearts” to reveal a stunningly new map of love in all its...

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To A Dancing God

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...

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