“Experiencing The Hero’s Journey …”
Howdy,
I have a quick post today for ya’ …
I have finally, finally finished the editing on my new book:
“Experiencing The Hero’s Journey …”
Foolish Wisdom Book 1 – An Apprentice of Wonder
And, I’ve set up a link so you can download a PDF of the Preface and the Introduction too … FREE, FREE, FREE (that means it’s a gift you don’t pay anything for BTW)!!!!
Here’s the link:
“Experiencing The Hero’s Journey …”
FREE PDF Download
That’s all for today (the file you download should do some more speakin’ for me …).
However, I’d love to hear what you think … leave me a comment after you get a chance to read a bit of the book …
ENJOY!!!!
All the best,
Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Princeton, NJ
Dr.Joseph, I was waiting for the book!! Now, I get to read the intro!! 😀
Shyaam … thanks!
There much more (about 200 pages or so …), and I’ll have it available in digital form soon too.
FWIW I’m really excited about this book … it’s very personal, and also something I wanted share and found a way that works for me to do so.
Hey Dr F-Wisdom,
Thanks so much for offering us the beginning of your new book. It already grabbed me and touched my capacity to live my own self-generated social story. I like it. I love that there will be at least as many intrpretations as there will be unique readers. Then the story of reading it, of experiencing it and the shift will impact other stories. I look forward to my own story getting clearer and more robust as I read the totality of your book.
Of course your books are like a great piece of music. You can listen and listen again and again and there’s something new, surprising that unfolds direectly from the silend mind and screaming story.
Best,
Tivo
Tivo, welcome.
You’re very kind with your comments. I hope the rest of the book lives up to your generous expectations. If I got it right (and I think I did) … the story that is the book will move folks who are ready for it from where they are …
not bad, found a few errors that I corrected as I went along, hmmm, lol
Thomas … I am pleased to have met your lowest expectations 😀
It’s interesting to me how many folks focus on the imperfections first and find all the typos and errors in the copy … I read the dang thing at least a dozen times and couldn’t find them … tells you something about the way I run my story I guess 😉
Fortunately for us both I’ll have someone who’s much better than me at spotting these things go through the copy now that I’ve finished with the copy editing.
Thanks for the note … it’s always appreciated.
Hey Joseph,
I really enjoyed reading the 1st chapter and look forward to the rest of the book. It has made me think about my own journey and I have some decisions to make.
All the best
Rachael
Thanks Rachael … I hope the rest lays something out for you that resonates and leads you further into your own story … it was the reason for writing it.
Can’t wait to read it
What’s the date for publication?
Martin
Martin … I’m aiming at later this month, but let’s say a few more weeks. We need to get the final finishes in place, formatting etc. and then get it uploaded for the digital release. I’m guessing mid-May the latest.
Hi Joseph
First, thank you for sharing that–it was hopeful and fun to read.
I’ve read more than my fair share of waking up/alternative psychology and etc type of books in my life. For me, what you posted so far is superb. I’m now excitedly chomping at the bit to read and work with the rest of the book. It was straightforward, clear, and flowed real well. And it was comfortable; there was no sense of pontificating nor irritating didacticism. It felt like sharing and providing rather than condescension and controlling. And it somehow had a precision and a depth t that was both freeing and thrilling. If the rest of the book is as good, and I’m guessing that it will be even better, then I feel you have a definite winner on your hands that will do a lot of people a lot of good, and, I know for sure that it will serve as one of my favorite books. I look forward to mining the stories and their effects on me for lots and lots of life’s gold coins of the realm.
(FYI: you said the editing was all finished. I wasn’t looking for them but there were at least two blatant unfixed errors that jumped out at me. I mention this only in case such things can still be adjusted.)
I have worked a bit more on this one than I had thought it was going to take to finish it. The writing flew by … and the editing dragged a bit.
As I said in the email I was done writing the entire thing in a few long weeks. I wrote a chapter section or two a day. Each chapter had three sections, so thirty three sections for the first eleven chapters, plus the Epilogue which is only one section for a total of thirty four sections … with weekends off on occasion it was done in less than six weeks.
In the first edit I reduced the book by about 5000 words, in the second edit I added about 10,000 words … then in the third edit I cleaned up the language and presentation a bit more; and caught what I could of the typos (hard to do when you’re the author and have read it a dozen or more times working on it).
In any case I think it’s my best piece of writing as writing to date.
I look forward to your comments when I release the full book. Thanks.
Dang, when you edit, you really edit! Am curious to hear about the process you use for the initial writing.
Again, really enjoyed the chapters. Saw above that it will be published likely by mid-May. Sooner than I would have expected, so, Yay.
Good lord! What a surprise in my email inbox this morning. Thank you so much.
Amongst many things, you are the master of the tease, of the slow reveal… and when I finished it, I wanted more, more, more!! I love it, such simmering passion, such hints and intimations of your journey of wonder. I’m so jacked at the prospect of hearing tales of Roye and how you were lost and found.
Bring it on Joe!
Ham … I read “slow release” instead of “reveal” … that’s how come I miss so many of the typos, I just see more of what I want than most folks 😉
There’s plenty about Roye in the book, although it’s more about the process of the Journey itself. I spend a bit of time laying out how I think socializing us F*!#S us up, especially schooling … and how I perceived I returned from that brink of disaster myself.
The real thing I wanted to write about (and did) was how we can manage to be ourselves and live life on our own terms, successfully within the larger system that contains us, even when life all around us is SNAFU.
(Did you see the U.S. Pentagon post this morning … N. Korea is situated to launch multiple missal attacks … SNAFU!!!)
FWIW I think you’ll like the book I’m planning next even more … about parenting our children and de-parenting ourselves ;). It runs right off the edge of where this book leaves off …
Ta
Hey Dr. Mythos….
I like the book of de-parenting ourselves and parenting. Will you be working with Jeff Leiken on this? I know he was planning on some book about the mytho applications to youth.
Is there any preview of this now or planned? I look forward to this in my mytho-parenting of my three girls. They all know about mytho and I tell them stories about mytho-dog and this dog’s powers of telling stories, generating stories and helping kids train and work with their inner mytho-dog…..
Best,
T-Dog…..
Joseph
It is good to hear your voice, speaking your story. These stories I have heard from you now written out for all who have ears to hear.
In just a hundred years, when none of us will be alive any more, your legacy will live on.
Just like Walden.
Typos:
great author’s – page 5
I am cleaver enough – page 6 ( or is that one intentional?!)
Red … thanks for the comments.
I thought about leaving the “cleaver” spelling on page 6, but I think it will turn off too many people who are anal retentive about typos, e.g.: mis-smelling things like grammer. It literally stops them in their tracks as they are reading … and for some it would be enough to get them to just put the book done in frustration despite their experience of the content.
I get it … when I catch my own typos I get that glitch in the flow of the reading too … I can let it go, but I’d rather not have to if I can avoid it.
FWIW there are plenty of stories in the book you have not heard too.
(giggles) ok I get the typo dig!
Mytho-parenting book sounds wonderful.
Seems like I’ve got to live in a shack in the woods away from everything to get my girls to age 7 unscathed!
x
Drooling..this is going to be a winner. When can we have the next chapter?
Thx
JF
Dear Joseph,
Thanks for the preview. I enjoyed reading it hugely, and it certainly whetted my appetite for more. Very readable, very accessible. I especially loved the contents page – what a narrative arc we have to look forwards to! I am, of course, well primed for this story, and probably as ready to be taken on the journey as I’m ever likely to be. And it’s good that you are now ready to tell this story – you have been promising for what seems like an age, keeping us (endlessly) waiting – and I have a inkling that the wait has had something to do with readiness, and not simply opportunity. So, bring it on!
And bring on the parenting book too. My experience of the Exquisite Parenting program, so very relevant to parenting children of all ages, is always present, particularly since the arrival of my grandchild, an event which perturbed my system big time, although the parenting lens always made sense to me And there have been more than a few moments when I have wept with gratitude for your awakening kiss, and for making it possibe for me to learn to learn again and, oh my, am I learning a lot from having this child around, including much more about how life is made up of stories, and how powerful these stories are.
Regretably (for me) I fly out of the UK next week as you fly in. I do so love a bit of Kick-Ass 🙂
Be well!
Hi,
What was your experience of the Exquisite Parening program? What shifted? What is/was new? How do your parent exqusitely? It would be great to hear some of that experience.
Best,
Tivo