{"product_id":"persephone-rising-awakening-the-heroine-within-isbn-9780062884060","title":"Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow with an updated preface from the author celebrating this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNautilus Award Winner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this empowering work, Carol S. Pearson, the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hero Within\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAwakening the Heroes Within\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her profound understanding of myth's enduring power to catalyze such transformations, Pearson guides readers of \u003cem\u003ePersephone Rising\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Mythic Guide to Becoming a Modern Heroine\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust in time, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Downing, author of The Long Journey Home: Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Downing, author of The Long Journey Home: Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRetailing Insight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol 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. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRetailing Insight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristiane Northrup, M.D. and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Goddesses Never Age and The Wisdom of Menopause\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirituality and Health\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRewire Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888517509349,"sku":"NP9780062884060","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062884060.jpg?v=1730229254","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/persephone-rising-awakening-the-heroine-within-isbn-9780062884060","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}