Persephone Rising

<p><strong>Now with an updated preface from the author celebrating this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p><strong><em>Nautilus Award Winner</em></strong></p><p>This revelatory manifesto speaks to the heroine in every woman and man offering potent strategies drawn from ancient Greek wisdom that can help us find happiness even in today's unfinished social revolution. Four archetypal plotlines--two feminine two masculine--chart this path toward greater life satisfaction.</p><p>In this empowering work Carol S. Pearson the bestselling author of <em>The Hero Within</em> and <em>Awakening the Heroes Within</em> reveals how the Demeter and Persephone story uncannily mirrors cultural and political dramas being played out today before our very eyes and then shows how these conflicts could be resolved. In the myth the earth mother wins a power struggle with a patriarchal god thereby ending a famine (think climate change) that threatens human survival. As this is occurring a youthful goddess gains her freedom asserting gender partnership and equality and as a result gives birth to joy and celebration.</p><p>The archetypal figures and narratives that galvanize attention in the public world also activate them within us as individuals. The challenge then is to live these stories wisely shifting their expression within us for our own good and that of our society. The example of the four major mythic characters illustrates how readers can move from feeling powerless to purposeful disrespected to esteemed trapped to free and anxious to joyful.</p><p>Drawing on her profound understanding of myth's enduring power to catalyze such transformations Pearson guides readers of <em>Persephone Rising</em> on a journey of self-discovery teaching us how to apply lessons from Demeter and Persephone as well as Zeus and Dionysus in our own lives--examples that reveal unexpected choices and opportunities available to us all.</p>