Daniel Deardorff

The Other Within (eBook, ePUB)

The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche
Kommentar: Bly, Robert; Simmons, Robert; Shaw, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644115695
• Artikelnr.: 63487663

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Thrown Out the Window by Robert Simmons
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The City and the Forest by Robert Bly
Overture
Raven Whispers & Forbidden Doors
Prelude
Songs of the Dog-Man
Scapegoat: A Stricken Deer
Aporia: Alexander’s Iron Gate
Wasters, Rhymers, Minstrels & Other Vagabonds
Fire on the Mountain
Mandorla: The Bird-Masked Dog-Toothed Dancers
The Bird with One Leg
Part One
Trickster Wisdom
The Crucible: In the Iron Cradle
Kaleidoscope: The Ten Thousand Things
Chymera: Mirror of the Beast
Part Two
The Leaping Consciousness
Dragon Smoke: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Gnomonica: The Tree of Joyful Difficulty
The Lyre: Where the Callus Meets the String
Coda
Masquerade
The Drum: For the Serpent & the Bird
Of the Spirit & the Flesh
The Singer: Throw Yourself Like Seed
The Cauldron: And Each Is the Work of All
Afterword: Danny’s Leap by Martin Shaw
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Authors and the Mythsinger Legacy Project