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Sam Keen
I was over educated at Harvard and Princeton and was a professor of philosophy and religion at various legitimate institutions for 20 years before becoming a contributing editor of Psychology Today, a freelance thinker, lecturer, seminar leader, and consultant. I am the author of a bakers dozen... show more

I was over educated at Harvard and Princeton and was a professor of philosophy and religion at various legitimate institutions for 20 years before becoming a contributing editor of Psychology Today, a freelance thinker, lecturer, seminar leader, and consultant. I am the author of a bakers dozen books, a co-producer of an award winning PBS documentary, Faces of the Enemy. My work was the subject of a 60 minute PBS special Bill Moyers-Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen.Most recently, I've co-authored a new book with my son Gifford, entitled Prodigal Father Wayward Son. When not writing or traveling around the world lecturing and doing seminars on a wide range of topics on which I am not necessarily an expert but a skilled explorer, I fiddle with growing things on my farm in the hills above Sonoma, and practice the flying trapeze.
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Birth date: January 01, 1931
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Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 5 years ago
An unfortunate side effect of a species survival strategy based on a big brain is that humans are capable of understanding that at some point in the future our individual consciousness will come to an end. If that thought does not frighten you then you are not thinking about it hard enough. If you t...
RedT Reads Randomly
RedT Reads Randomly rated it 9 years ago
Apologies up front. First of all this is too long. Second, it is not a review. Instead, it is a direct copy straight from the authors pen of several passages I want to remember verbatim. In fact, this book is almost enough to make me understand how, in the old days, people could quote entire pas...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 11 years ago
An important book for all of us to read, though I bogged down a bit during the sex parts. It is possible I am not as familiar with all the so-called perversions and neurosis of sexuality and therefore the actually small bit of text referring to fetishes and homosexuality was lost on me. I know that ...
KCPolski
KCPolski rated it 16 years ago
I liked the way mythology is tied in to Keen's look at men. I think some of this is outdated, and I would be curious if he would change anything if he were to write it today, or if he still holds to his theory as presented.
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it 16 years ago
need to read this again.
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