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Articles and Essays

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Educating creative citizens

Educational metaphors dictate educational values

Essay Writing as a Hero's Journey

Our Lives as Human Capital + Living Inauthentically

Reading to remake the self

Sacred power of metaphor

Schema and the Hero's Journey

Teaching to the Child's Story

Texts must "decontextualize" themselves

Trickster is the agent of Chaos

Turning children into objects

Two paths to identity

Advertising, pseudo calls and the heroic journey

Engagement and the creative act

From whence the journey?

In a world without order, anything is believable

Letting go: Surrendering ourselves to our journeys

Our Lives as Human Capital + Living In authentically

Respecting the self: Taking time for assimilation

Self-realization and the journey

The suffering caused by expectations

To know your journey is to know yourself

The transformative crisis of growth and understanding

Two paths to identity

Our world view gives meaning and coherence to life

Being rather than doing

Boundaries both separate and unite

Chaos and creativity

Engagement and the creative act

Every form is a pattern of movement

From whence the journey? 

Hegelian dialectic: The Journey as a Reconciliation of Poles

Hermeneutic loop: The cycle of interpretation

Impact of Cultural Discourse on the Individual

Individual journeys are part of the whole

Letting go: Surrendering ourselves to our journeys

Living for the future robs us of the present

Myth and Wholeness

"Ripening" as the Heroic Journey

Sacred power of metaphor

Sacrificing the Reality of the Now

Speed is the measure of the cultural crisis

To do something, you must first "be" something

The Whole is Part of the Whole...Holons and the Journey

Trickster is the agent of Chaos 

Yin-Yang: The expression of dynamic polar opposites

What serves us can also replace us

Call to Greater Meaning

Cognitive Restructuring and the Heroic Journey

Gestalt Psychology's Paradoxical Theory of Change

Hero's Journey and Brain-based Teaching

Faith and security in the heroic journey process

Folk psychology as the ground for the journey

Impact of Cultural Discourse on the Individual

Journey will destroy self-deluding projections

Origins of the Shadow archetype

Personal interaction: the mirror through which we grow

Personal narrative as a contextualizing framework

Piaget and the journey

Shadow play: Creation and effects of the shadow

Sacrificing the Reality of the Now

Self-deluding projections and the journey

The suffering caused by expectations

The transformative crisis of growth and understanding

Two paths to identity

Our world view gives meaning and coherence to life