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Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
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In his numerous roles as groundbreaking poet, editor, translator, storyteller, and father of what he has called "the expressive men's movement", Bly remains one of the most hotly debated American artists of the past half century. What is it about Bly and his ideas that inspires such impassioned responses from readers and associates? The psychologist Robert Moore believes that "When the cultural and intellectual history of our time is written, Robert Bly will be recognized as the catalyst for a sweeping cultural revolution".
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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By: Robert Bly
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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By: Robert Bly, and others
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The Naive Male
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Robert Bly
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
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5 out of 5 stars
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focus great story teller. hits home with amazing accuracy
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By: Robert Bly
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- A Talk on Sibling Society
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Robert Bly
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
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By: Robert Bly
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- Narrated by: Marion Woodman
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
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W.B. Yeats and His Father
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
These broadcast quality archival recordings have been edited down into an amazing journey led by Robert Bly, one of America's greatest and entertaining thinkers. This audio explores the poetry of Yeats and goes deep into the author's biography to help bring to light the inspirations of Yeat's great works.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good experience, but not well-suited to audiobook format.
- By Aaron on 01-17-20
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A Society of Siblings
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Characterized by petty rivalries, self-indulgence and lack of responsibility, our actions fail to fulfill what Robert Bly describes as our true soul longing. With characteristic irreverence and storytelling from various cultures, Bly tells us what we should be doing about green-haired adolescents and idle elders, not to mention televisions and computers. His insightful focus illuminates the truths and possibilities of a culture caught in an adolescent phase of development.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rip off
- By Gunnar on 08-03-20
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Into the Deep
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- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
An extraordinary visit with one of America's leading poets provides a unique exploration of the mystery of maleness. Bly uses fairy tales to illuminate the dark recesses of the psyche, and the result is a powerful intimation of the male experience and potential. From the soft, feminine male persona to the deeply buried wildman, Bly takes us on a journey through unmapped territory of the masculine. For men and women this is a conversation not to be missed.
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The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need?
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- Narrated by: Robert Bly
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- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 164
Robert Bly - one of the most compelling mythologists and storytellers of our time - captures the imagination in two live recordings. In The Human Shadow, Bly takes us on a thought provoking and entertaining journey exploring our "shadow" through poetry, music, and storytelling. What Stories Do We Need? reminds us that the mythology we have inherited is often defective. Just as the church refused to accept the reality Galileo saw in his telescope, literalists have removed the dark soul images that nourished our ancestors from mythology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bly is my greatest living hero
- By IW, Albuquerque on 04-05-16
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The Power of Shame
- By: Robert Bly
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- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
In this discussion, Bly talks of four sources of shame, including shame inherited from parents, grandparents, and ancestors, and shame over our bodily and creative instincts. It opens with a Russian fairy story on the Frog Princess and the shame we feel over our interior "Frog Bride." Bly and host Michael Toms discuss the new work in America on shame, most of it done during the last ten years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to understand
- By Shane on 06-08-12
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William Blake and Beyond
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
"As a man is, so he sees." These words of mystical poet and artist William Blake are just as relevant now as they were when they were written in 1802 - perhaps more so. Throughout his life, Blake undertook a voyage beyond rationality and materialism to an interior, visionary realm where "all things appear as they are - infinite." Yet all human beings, he believed, are capable of opening their eyes to a fuller experience of life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A romp through hippy land !
- By John Glemby on 10-22-10
By: Robert Bly
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The Masculine Road
- The Red, White, and Black
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Bly describes the three necessary and sequential life phases symbolized by three colors - the "red, white and black," in the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "Iron John." He casts a penetrating light on these male life stages, describing complications that arise, for example, when a boy skips the red and goes directly to the white. He also discusses how these stages, when fulfilled, affect men's relationships with women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best discussion for Male Initiation
- By ARV on 02-21-23
By: Robert Bly
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Poems of Rumi
- By: Robert Bly, Coleman Barks
- Narrated by: Robert Bly, Coleman Barks
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Jalaluddin Rumi is unquestionably one of the greatest spiritual poets of the world. This audio features Robert Bly and Coleman Barks each reading his own versons of Rumi. Brilliant musical accompaniment provides playfulness and ground to great spiritual expression.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unacceptable
- By Anonymous User on 02-19-19
By: Robert Bly, and others
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An Evening with Marion Woodman and Robert Bly on The Maiden King
- By: Marion Woodman, Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Marion Woodman
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
A Course in Miracles says that this world and every aspect of it got started when the Son of God remembered not to laugh. What we failed to laugh at is the joke that is ourselves. Now, however, you can have a true experience of metaphysical mirth - you might even, yourself, achieve "full realization".
By: Marion Woodman, and others
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Male Naivete and Giving the Gold Away
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Leaving naivete behind may open up the wilder regions of maleness, where men can wrestle with their demons and, in time, reach maturity and balance, according to Bly, poet and men's workshop facilitator. This is a fascinating dialogue which explores the mystery of maleness and includes Bly's storytelling mastery and poetry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robert at his best.
- By Kenneth J Baum on 04-11-16
By: Robert Bly
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Marion Woodman & Robert Johnson in Conversation
- Jungian Psychology Through the Eyes of Two Masters
- By: Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson
- Narrated by: Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story5 out of 5 stars 41
In these never-before-released "Woodman Johnson Discussions", you will get the complete edited program in eight different sections - 12 hours in total, edited audio. These two icons of Jungian theory share a revealing and insightful conversation on Jungian Analysis and each of their lives' work.Some of the points covered include: The Wounded Feeling Function in the Masculine and the Feminine; Legitimate and Illegitimate Feelings; and Masculine, Feminine, Patriarchy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing for Jung and Dream analysis enthusiasts
- By Justin R. Smith on 05-31-22
By: Marion Woodman, and others
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The Dilemma of Depth Psychology in Relation to Social Change
- By: James Hillman
- Narrated by: James Hillman
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Hillman refers to soul as “a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself”. The value of seeing beneath, between, and beyond to achieve new perspectives for learning, integration, transformation, and growth was a personal challenge for Hillman, who claimed depth psychology can be summed up in one excerpt from Heraclitus: “You could not discover the limits of the soul (psyche), even if you traveled every road to do so; such is the depth…of its meaning."
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s worth the cost!
- By C. Gardner on 07-11-23
By: James Hillman