About the Author

Jean Houston,Ph.D., is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The Possible Human and The Search for the Beloved, and an internationally renowned psychologist, scholar, philosopher, and teacher. She is the co-director of the Foundation for Mind Research in Pomona, New York, and founder of the Mystery School an institution dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the new physics, psychology, anthropology, myth and the many dimensions of our human potential. A consultants to the United Nations, UNICEF, and other international agencies, Houston presents transformational workshops to people and organizations all over the world.

Reviews

Houston, with her five decades of moving familiarly among the likes of comedian Edgar Bergen, mythologist Joseph Campbell, remote aboriginal tribes and visionary theologians like Teilhard de Chardin, is a consummate personality for the 1990s. Entertainer to the end, she has the rare gift of conveying the grandiose, comic quality of life with a storyteller's timing. Here, the storyteller Houston is the story, and the entertainment quotient is high. From autobiographical reminiscences, Houston (Public Like a Frog, etc.) extrapolates to the greater message of the mythic quality-the hero-in all of us. Here is clear proof that the single anecdote is more convincing than a ream of statistics. (Dec.)

Houston‘psychologist, author, mathematician, scholar, and student of humanity‘has had many amazing life experiences, as we learn in this autobiography, including fascinating encounters with other people and cultures. She describes these personal events and uses them to try to lead us toward a new human experience. She illustrates the potential that we all have within us, if only we can learn to see ourselves as part of a greater whole. Houston believes that myth corresponds with all aspects of human existence and that it is the link that can lead us to our spiritual source. The author's enthusiasm and energy are felt on every page, but her writing is not always easy to follow. This book may not be in the same league as the work of Joseph Campbell (with whom she has done research), but it will undoubtedly be popular with readers of New Age material. Purchase accordingly. [One Spirit (QPB) selection.]‘Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman