About the Author

Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is a world-renowned expert on depth psychology and transformational leadership and is the author of such classic works as The Hero Within, Awakening the Heroes Within, and The Hero and the Outlaw. She served most recently as president of Pacifica Graduate Institute and speaks and consults with many groups, universities, and businesses. She lives with her husband in the Washington, DC area.

Reviews

"For many of us women the story of Demeter and Persephone is the most challenging and illuminating of all myths. Each of us retells it in her own way, a way that reflects what it means to her. Carol Pearson's rich revisioning focuses on Persephone's rising, on her return to the upper world as emblematic of the power inherent in all of us to move beyond failure and conflict to lives filled with joy, fearlessness and abundance. Wisely, she recognizes that the deepest message this myth conveys comes from attending to all the archetypal energies represented in it, not just Persephone but also Demeter, Zeus, and Dionysos." - Christine Downing, author of The Long Journey Home: Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time
"For many of us women the story of Demeter and Persephone is the most challenging and illuminating of all myths. Each of us retells it in her own way, a way that reflects what it means to her." - Christine Downing, author of The Long Journey Home: Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time
A stellar voice from the past has resurfaced to mark the introduction of HarperOne's new line of books. It marks a very auspicious beginning. Carol Pearson's gentle reframing of the tale that served as the basis of the Eleusian Mysteries, brings these gods and goddesses to life and makes it clear that the power of the archetypes they represent is as relevant today as it was in the ancient world. It's followed by a no-nonsense description of the Mysteries and exercises that help readers recreate that initiatory experience. Pearson writes with an eye toward empowering women, not by disparaging men, but by pointing us in the direction of our lost history. She speaks of a little recognized keynote that can be heard in familiar movements, such as Civil Rights, Gay Rights, and - of course - Women's Rights. Her work has always been an exploration of the flowers that bloom through the cracks in the sidewalk. It would appear that those flowers, and Pearson herself, are now positioned for a spectacular moment in the sun. Consider displaying this book with Pearson's classic The Hero Within and with Gadon's Once and Future Goddess, Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade, and Woodman/Dickson's Dancing in the Flames which Pearson references. - Retailing Insight
Carol Pearson's gentle reframing of the tale that served as the basis of the Eleusian Mysteries, brings these gods and goddesses to life... Pearson writes with an eye toward empowering women, not by disparaging men, but by pointing us in the direction of our lost history. - Retailing Insight
"Persephone Rising spoke to my bone marrow-its truths resonating with clarity and power. A beautiful retelling and updating of these ancient archetypes-so relevant today. " - Christiane Northrup, M.D. and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Goddesses Never Age and The Wisdom of Menopause
"Through these classical archetypes of antiquity, Pearson guides us moderns in examining not only our fundamental, underlying beliefs but also those of our greater society." - Spirituality and Health
"Persephone Rising leads readers down the processional path of the ancients into a modern initiation where the power to change reveals we can all awaken the heroine within." - Rewire Me