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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 may once again find ourselves in the presence of an unknowable but all present G-d. We may also regain the commonalities between Christians, Jews, Muslims, and those of other spirit traditions and end the contentious differences that have divided them and our world.
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Updating cart… Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds
Our most intimate revelations of the sacred happen in unexpected moments in unlikely places. Walking under a forest canopy in search of an elusive Indigo Bunting may evoke a hushed reverence and a sense of gratitude. In these twelve interwoven essays Sam Keen invites us to turn our eyes skyward and see what we discover. ” Reading this book is like walking down a winding path; one never knows what’s around the bend…Be prepared for continual surprises, wisdom, beauty, sometimes a burst of mirth…” Huston Smith
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Updating cart… 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, barbarians, terrorists, sadists and aggressors so that we will be able to kill without remorse or pity. “An essential document of our time.” Joseph Campbell “Vivid and jolting, this book is a major new contribution to the literature of the psychology of war and hence to the prevention of the final epidemic..While Keen writes with a disarmingly calm grace, both the pictures and his verbal images arrest us so that we are forced to explore more deeply the ugliest of human attributes.” Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr Neil Elgee “An eloquent meditation on the nature of hatred–how we degrade the hated person, nation, or race into an ugly symbol; how we therefore can annihilate the symbol as an act of erasure without considering that we are, in fact, killing the children of mothers and fathers…Sam Keen deserves the qualifying adjective, philosopher. His book is an eloquent act.” Herbert Gold
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Updating cart… 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 Wolves.
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Updating cart… Your Mythic Journey (with A.V. Fox)
This book will help you discover the story of your life and understand it mythologically as well as practically. This is done through a series of writing and drawing exercises that use probing questions designed to challenge your beliefs, your values and your identity as you explore your past, present and future. Reviewer: Mar Calpena. A gem of a book, deep but compassionate This is a brilliant book for those who believe in journaling as a therapeutic path. The authors address life’s main conflicts, and structures the basic questions to be answered by the reader in terms of Joseph Campbell’s work. This book combines intellectual rigor with heartfelt warmth, in a combination so rarely seen in similar books.
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Audiotapes available of Your Mythic Journey VHS available of Your Mythic Journey, A conversation with Bill Moyers
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Updating cart… 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 forms.
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Updating cart… 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 desires.
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Updating cart… The Passionate Life
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.
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Updating cart… Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go
“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
“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
“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
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VHS available of Learning To Fly
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