Reveals myth and "otherness" as keys to restoring self, nature, and
society * Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness
amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness,
death, or grief * Synthesizes lessons from shamanic practice,
quantum physics, alchemy, soul poetry, wildness, social justice,
and the author's lived experience * Discloses the blessings of
outsiderhood and the gifts and insights gained and contributed to
culture by those who are marginalized and outcast There is an
"other" that lives within each of us, an exiled part that carries
wisdom needed for ourselves and the culture at large. Having
survived disabling polio as an infant, Daniel Deardorff knows the
oppressions of exclusion and outsiderhood. He guides readers on an
initiatory journey through ancient myth, literature, and personal
revelation to discover our own true identity. These 10,000-year-old
stories contain sacred medicine with insights that release
imagination and restore wholeness amid trauma, exile, climate
chaos, disability, illness, death, and grief. Illustrating how
archetypal figures of the Other--the Trickster, Daimon, Not-I,
etc.--hold paradox, Deardorff teaches us to reframe disparities of
self/other, civilization/ wilderness, form/deformity and transform
the experience of being outcast. Synthesizing lessons from shamanic
practice, quantum physics, alchemy, social justice, and his own
lived experience, Deardorff affirms the disruptive and
transgressive forces that break through dogma, conventionality, and
prejudice. He discloses blessings of outsiderhood and gifts to
culture by those who are marginalized. Through mythmaking
(mythopoesis), the experience of Otherness--cultural, racial,
religious, sexual, physiognomic--becomes one of empowerment, a
catalyst for human liberation.
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