The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By
 

The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By

by Carol S. Pearson

Works like Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces have introduced readers to the significance of myth and archetype in our lives. Carol Pearson's bestselling The Hero Within takes us further by combining literature, anthropology, and psychology to clearly define with insight and understanding, the six heroic archetypes that exists in all of us: the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer,... (read more)

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A brilliant study of Jungian archetypes and how we progress through them as we grow as individuals. Very readable; the author applies psychology to real life. I was brought to contemplate the need to pass through the warrior archetype, which I tend to avoid, in order to arrive at the magician (wise woman) stage of my life. I tend to want to be a healer and peacemaker and evade even the healthy conflict essential to my growth. But as Sean Connery playing King Arthur in a really corny movie...

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