The Fundamentalist Mind

How Polarized Thinking Imperils Us All

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Imprint: Quest Books
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Book Details

Pages

272 Pages

Size

6 x 9

Format

Trade Paperback

Pub. Date

01/01/2007

ISBN

978-0-8356-0850-3

Publisher

Quest Books

Authors

Stephen Larsen, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of psychology, SUNY, Ulster, is also a psychotherapist and a pioneer in bioneurological feedback. He is author of The Mythic Imagination and coauthor of Joseph Campbell: Fire in the Mind and The Fashioning of Angels.

Phil Cousineau is a bestselling author, editor, photographer, award-winning documentary filmmaker, adventure travel leader, and independant scholar who lectures around the world on a wide range of topics from mythology, mentorship, and soul. His books include The Art of Pilgrimage, Soul Moments, Riddle Me This, and The Soul Aflame. A protege of the late Joseph Campbell, Cousineau is also the author of The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work. He lives in San Francisco, California.

We are all fundamentalists whether we acknowledge it or not. We were born into a world of myth and metaphor and have come to internalize the stories we were told as children as the literal interpretations of much greater and deeply symbolic lessons. When we fall into such patterns, according to author and psychotherapist Stephen Larsen, we lose all flexibility and freedom of thought. We become split by dualistic thinking–bad versus good; black versus white–and are weighted down by definitive, concretistic principles and behaviors that alienate us from one another. Dr. Larsen explains that we can avoid such pitfalls by identifying our “inner fundamentalist” and becoming more open-minded individuals.
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