Persephone Rising

Awakening the Heroine Within

De: Carol S. Pearson

Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu

Our era of professional and familial pressures, constant connection, and a renewed debate on "having it all" presents unprecedented challenges to contemporary women. In Persephone Rising, celebrated scholar of depth psychology and archetypes Carol S. Pearson brings a fresh vision for meeting those challenges and rising above them, as only she can.

Drawing on her profound understanding of myth's enduring power to catalyze transformations, Pearson guides listeners on a journey of self-discovery, teaching us how to activate and apply the archetypes of Demeter and Persephone, as well as Zeus and Dionysus, in our own lives. Illuminating ancient wisdom for a modern audience, Persephone Rising offers meaningful and effective strategies to answer the call to heroism in our own lives. Just as Demeter and Persephone discovered, in the midst of great difficulty, their own powers, gifts, and abilities for creating a better path not only for themselves but the world, Persephone Rising teaches that each one of us has more options than choosing whether to lean in or out; we have the power to change ourselves and thus our world.

©2015 Carol S. Pearson (P)2015 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Carol Pearson's rich revisioning focuses on Persephone's rising, on her return to the upper world as emblematic of the power inherent in all of us to move beyond failure and conflict to lives filled with joy, fearlessness and abundance." (Christine Downing, author of The Long Journey Home)

Required reading for life!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Nature speaks to us profoundly if we had the art to listen. When we were closer to nature and matriarchy had more power to speak, the forces we must contend with for life were revealed in wonderful story. That is mythology, and not the simplistic interpretation and short shrift it typically gets. Thank you Carol Pearson for your incredible research and even greater gift of understanding in beautifully revealing our human nature.

Absolute must!!!

Poignant. informative, practical and inspiring! Tools to move forward in life's creativity! A must read!!

Good content, hard to listen to

I previewed some of the other books this narrator has done, it's really bizarre how she chose to be robotic and serious for every. single. word. of. this. The book itself is great, it has a lot of good analogies, metaphors, real life examples, etc. Might be better to buy the actual book and read it yourself. I could only listen to an hour at a time before taking a break for a week cause the narration was so grating on my nerves. Too bad

Fascinating book, terrible, robotic narratior

Would you try another book from Carol S. Pearson and/or Callie Beaulieu?

I found the text itself -- as written by Carol S. Pearson -- to be very interesting, illuminating, and unusual. I was so drawn to much of what she said that I will purchase this book as a book so that I can enjoy it on the page.

The narration by Callie Beaulieu was absolutely bizarre. It had all of the qualities of a hurried robot, such that I had to go back and check that there actually was a human involved in the reading. I gave a quick listen to a couple of other audible titles with which she was involved, and she sounded perfectly lovely -- so why on earth she did her darndest to sound like a computer on double speed with this subtle, nuanced work is beyond me. I had to stop listening partway through because I could not bear the terrible narration. It is that bad.

Do you think Persephone Rising needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

The idea that we are acting within large, powerful archetypal energies is not original to Carol Pearson, but what she does with it is really unique. I'd love to see her continue to apply her ideas.

Any additional comments?

This is a wonderful book and it deserved careful, attentive narration. Instead it received one of the strangest readings I have ever heard -- truly, I absolutely believed (until I went back to check) that Audible had foregone a human reader and used a computer prototype that just wasn't working well. Siri would have done a much better job, and I don't like Siri.

Overall command of the subject expressed like a storyteller.

I appreciate the integrated and inclusive approach of this work. I feel invited into female perspective and wisdom and got to learn a thing or four that I can readily apply to my fiction writing and roles as a husband and father of three young ladies.