The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingRandom House, 1996 - 334 pages A journey into the essential mystery at the center of every life--the search for calling--The Soul's Code takes a new look at age-old themes, providing a radical, frequently amusing, and highly accessible path to realization through an extensive array of examples. Hillman ecnourages readers to discover the "blueprints" particular to their individual lives, certain that there is more to life than can be explained by genetics or environment. |
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... mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns . The daimon has prescience - maybe not of particulars ( that Rommel and Pollock would commit suicide , that " Granny " Eleanor would be first lady , that In a Nutshell & 39.
... mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns . The daimon has prescience - maybe not of particulars ( that Rommel and Pollock would commit suicide , that " Granny " Eleanor would be first lady , that In a Nutshell & 39.
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... mythological , morphological , and etymological meanings . The acorn is also a mythical symbol ; it is a shape ; and it is a word with ancestries , tangents and implications , and suggestive power . By amplifying “ acorn " in these ...
... mythological , morphological , and etymological meanings . The acorn is also a mythical symbol ; it is a shape ; and it is a word with ancestries , tangents and implications , and suggestive power . By amplifying “ acorn " in these ...
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... mythical premises , how it is begging its first question , in this case the myth of the acorn . Because theories are not merely cooked up in the head or induced from cold data , they represent the dramas of myth in conceptual terms ...
... mythical premises , how it is begging its first question , in this case the myth of the acorn . Because theories are not merely cooked up in the head or induced from cold data , they represent the dramas of myth in conceptual terms ...
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