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Sacred Paths for Modern Men: A Wake Up Call from Your 12 Archetypes Review

Sacred Paths for Modern Men: A Wake Up Call from Your 12 Archetypes
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I got this book after browsing the pagan section at Borders. Being in the military I skipped straight to "The Warrior" section and read it with great interest. This chapter was great. I took it with me to my regular meeting with my therapist who has been helping me deal with issues from Iraq as well as issues of intimacy in my relationships. I told her that it seemed that someone else had written the things she's been telling me for the past year in the two chapters dealing with the Warrior and the Lover.
I'm not going offer you a review from a literary standpoint here. Nope. I am only going to tell you that a 37 year old man who has been in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, has seen combat, has volunteer as a firedepartment, who has given up his job and possessions to simply move 2000 miles away, who's followed love and had his heart crushed, who has seen death and dealt it and is dealing with the ramifications, who reads Jung and Campbell and others, who has asked for all the growth one tiny little soul can ask for, and still dares to dream of happiness... has found this book to be of much depth and complexity and has much to offer men who do not think of themselves as typified by beer commercials, who can attack with great ferocity the enemy before them, who can hold a child with tenderness, and more. This book is a great addition to any library.
Thank you for writing this book. It does well for the men in America (throwing ropes to other men, as written in the back) and it does a great service to the Pagan community to have writings of this caliber representing the depth that our spirituality has to offer.

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Roar RuleLaugh Create Destroy Love ...And lay claim to your true masculine nature and spiritual heritage. According to Dagonet Dewr, a writer and activist in the men's pagan spirituality movement: "We have forgotten how to cry, to scream, to hunt, to love, to honor, to teach, to initiate." Hip, funny, and direct, this pagan belief guide explores twelve powerful male archetypes and their relevance for men today: Divine Child, Lover, Warrior, Trickster, Green Man, Guide, Craftsman, Magician, Destroyer, King, Healer, and Sacrificed One. Stories of characters from mythology, fantasy, and pop culture illustrate different expressions of masculine energy. With pagan rituals and magickal workings, this pagan book offers a visceral, hands-on way to connect with archetypal energies and honor male rites of passage such as coming of age, seeking a partner in love, or becoming a father.

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From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics Review

From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics
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An outstanding introduction to ancient Greek/Roman literary classics from a Christian perspective, Markos leads the reader through some prominent ancient Greek/Roman literary works, explaining the highlights of the "stories" and then digging deeper into their meanings and how they sort of "jive", in a faintly anticipatory way with some of the biblical themes of God, humanity, and redemption. Just as the gospel was set forth in shadowy, veiled form in the "old testament", there were glimmers of the gospel to be found in non-hebraic thought of antiquity as well. From Homer's Illiad and Odyssey, to Hesiod's Theogony, to Virgil's Aeneid, as well as the plays of Sophocles, Euripedes and Aeschylus, the author "demonstrates how the characters, themes and symbols within these myths both foreshadow and find their fulfillment in the story of Jesus Christ- the myth made fact. Along the way, he dispels misplaced fears about the dangers of reading classical literature and offers a Christian approach to the appropriation and interpretation of these great literary works." (from the book's back cover) Must, must reading for thoughful christians wanting to understand something of the popular stories and literature of the wider Greco-Roman World of which the new testament was a part.

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"The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact."--C. S. LewisIn From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian perspective. From the battles of Achilles and the adventures of Odysseus to the feats of Hercules and the trials of Aeneas, Markos shows how the characters, themes and symbols within these myths both foreshadow and find their fulfillment in the story of Jesus Christ--the "myth made fact." Along the way, he dispels misplaced fears about the dangers of reading classical literature, and offers a Christian approach to the interpretation and appropriation of these great literary works.This engaging and eminently readable book is an excellent resource for Christian students, teachers and readers of classical literature.

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