Phil Cousineau
Författare till The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
Om författaren
Phil Cousineau, author of seventeen books, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who lectures worldwide on topics such as mythology and creativity. He now lives in San Francisco, but still roots for his Detroit hometown teams
Foto taget av: photo by Gregg Chadwick
Serier
Verk av Phil Cousineau
Soul Moments: Marvelous Stories of Synchronicity--Meaningful Coincidences from a Seemingly Random World (1997) 51 exemplar
Riddle Me This: A World Treasury of Word Puzzles, Folk Wisdom, and Literary Conundrums (1999) 47 exemplar
Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day (2013) 28 exemplar
The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins — Författare — 4 exemplar
The peyote road: ancient religion in contemporary crisis [video recording] (1992) — Regissör — 1 exemplar
The trickster: For Joseph Campbell 1 exemplar
The Oldest Story in the World 1 exemplar
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The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) (1990) — Inledning — 554 exemplar
A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom (2005) — Redaktör — 42 exemplar
And Live Rejoicing: Chapters from a Charmed Life — Personal Encounters with Spiritual Mavericks, Remarkable… (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
The roots of fundamentalism : a conversation with Huston Smith & Phil Cousineau [video recording] (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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- Födelsedag
- 1952-11-26
- Kön
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- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA (birth)
Detroit, Michigan, USA
North Beach, San Francisco, California - Utbildning
- University of Detroit (journalism)
- Yrken
- writer
screenwriter
filmmaker
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- Verk
- 42
- Även av
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 1,288
- Popularitet
- #19,904
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 7
- ISBN
- 79
- Språk
- 3
- Favoritmärkt
- 2
The power of story telling is something we often fail to recognise, and this is something he brings out very clearly. The myths and old stories are generally Western ones that he has quoted, and this is a small quibble from my side. The essential message is clear and loud.
He writes well. However, from the second half of the book - the sections on sports, cities etc - which are indeed quite powerful themes, I think, the book tends to waver. While he does indeed draw the connection between his own experiences and that of ancient/modern myths, the link is weak.
However, he does do us yeoman service, especially in this modern age when mobile phone and electronic technology is threatening to take us away from our roots.… (mer)