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Courting the Wild Twin

By: Martin Shaw
Narrated by: Martin Shaw
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Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses story to examine our broken relationship with the world!

Myth is our wild way of telling the truth, of sharing stories that have our living earth speaking through them. There is an old insistence that we each have a twin we know nothing about. A wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our energy with them.

This story is a quest to find and court our wild twin, for they have something important to tell us. If there was something we were here to do in our few, brief years, we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key.

In Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw, an accomplished storyteller and scholar of myth and oral tradition, explores two ancient myths concerned with the wild twin and shares how vital they are to our ability to confront challenges with purpose, courage and creativity.

Myths are our secret weapon. They have a radical agency of beauty in our age of amnesia, an agency far beyond concept and polemic.

©2020 Martin Shaw (P)2020 Chelsea Green Publishing Customs & Traditions Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences Tradition Thought-Provoking Mythology
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I stumbled across this book, and I'm so much the better for it. The language, the themes, the narration....a wonderful listen that's left me feeling more at home than I have been for a good while.

it's just great

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How I wish that Martin’s soft tones had been on hand to sing me through my adolescence unfolding.
A beautiful invitation to walk through ones own wildness with a guide who can put name to all the coloured threads of our tapestry.
This journey has been a true gift and all I can say is thank you for whispering the spell.

Th God father who was missing from my table.

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Martin Shaw is like a highwayman who has lived red day's and now turns his swashbuckle to shadowed, nurturing words that comfort and invigorate in equal measure. If you take this message into your heart you will leap from your chair with a desire to dig into dark places, huddle by fires and yarn, and go on adventures within soul. The man is a treasure - long may his chimney smoke!

Vital. Nurturing. Captivating. Spellbreaking.

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Speaks to soul and heart. Such depth and movement. Listening was a real joy . Thank you!

This, this, this!

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I listen repeatedly. lessons of life, self, earth and heart told through fairytales and experience

beautiful and hard to label

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