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The Gifts of a Mythic Life

By Jean Houston — 2013

Myth is not a no thing, an insubstantial conceptual will-o'-the-wisp. It is coded into our cells and waters the seas of the unconscious. It dwells in our little finger and plays along the spine as well as the spirit. It grants us access to the DNA of the human psyche, the source patterns originat­ing in the ground of our being. It gives us the key to our personal and historical exis­tence.

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