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Myth, Meaning, and Experience
Some see reality as a subjective experience which lacks any obvious meaning. This demands that we become the creators of own universe. This is a journey through their ideas and stories, in hopes of finding personal empowerment and meaningful living--be it through empirical, rational, or transcendental means.
This list was originated by Erraticus, an online publication focused on human flourishing.
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American Indian Myths and Legends
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Richard Erdoes (Editor)
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Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists. TWO VOLUMES
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In Quest of the Hero
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Otto Rank (Contributor)
3.73 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Norse Myths
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75 Years Of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking
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Paul Levitz (Editor)
4.61 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)
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Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do
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Even This I Get to Experience
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Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective
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The Schopenhauer Cure
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Art as Experience
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Blake: Prophet Against Empire
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The Complete Illuminated Books
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Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko
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Being and Nothingness
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Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism
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Blake's Job
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The Idiot
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William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
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The Gambler
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William Blake: Essays For S. Foster Damon
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Demons
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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
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Beanworld, Vol. 1: Wahoolazuma!
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Murphy
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Cerebus (Cerebus, #1)
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Malone Dies
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High Society (Cerebus #2)
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Jung on Mythology
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Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue
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Walden
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
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Bill McKibben (Editor)
4.23 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Walking
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Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Brown Thrasher Books)
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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce
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The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
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Matthew D. Lassiter (Editor)
3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory
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American Indian Mythology
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Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
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Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History
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Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies
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Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
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“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
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Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology
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The Beach Boys and the California Myth
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
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Yoruba Myths
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The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism
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The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
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Marc Aronson (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 229 ratings
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John Brown in Memory and Myth
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Michael Daigh (Goodreads Author)
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
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The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal
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Song of the Vikings
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3.92 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
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Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons
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Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
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Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
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The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
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A Short History of Myth
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
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Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
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