The Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life - Hardcover

Armstrong PhD, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402739966 ISBN 13: 9781402739965

Publisher: Sterling, 2007

Synopsis

Many excellent volumes have been devoted to some of the key chapters in our lives, from classics on early childhood and the teen years to bestsellers that identify pivotal phases in adulthood. But renowned educator, parenting expert, veteran workshop leader, and successful author Thomas Armstrong, PhD covers the entire journey.
With Dr. Armstrong, we can travel through the first stirrings of life in the womb to the anticipation of death and even beyond. In a unique synthesis, he draws on a wide array of sources from various disciplines and cultures to fashion a compelling narrative. Scientific and psychological knowledge combine with personal accounts, literary passages, myths and legends, and psychospiritual perspectives to help enrich our understanding of the broad sweep of life. The result is a comprehensive, groundbreaking view of our development.
The core of this enlightening guide consists of twelve chapters, each describing of a different period of life, with its own unique changes, struggles, and growth. A final chapter poses the possibility that the voyage may even continue after physical death. Additionally, Dr. Armstrong includes a comprehensive bibliography with further reading, list of organizations, practical activities, and a filmography.

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About the Author

Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. is an award-winning author and speaker with over thirty years of teaching and over one million copies of his books in print on issues related to learning and human development. He is the author of thirteen books including The Best Schools (9781416604570) and In Their Own Way (9781585420513). www.thomasarmstrong.com

Review

ENDORSEMENTS: Human Odyssey is superb, magnificent, astonishing, unique, engrossing, eminently readable, informative, enjoyable, entertaining, profound." Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and Magical Child." impressive. I also think that it has great commercial potential. Many people will find attractive your dual focus on the scientific and the soul/spiritual dimensions.” Howard Gardner, Ph.D., The John H. and Elizabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, author Frames of Mind.  I very much enjoyed Human Odyssey.  [The] breadth of sources is remarkable, and you have put them all together in a smooth and integrative way.  I think it will be informative for people, and also inspiring for them .Overall, this is an impressive tour de force.” Arthur Hastings, Ph.D., Professor and Director, William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. ...an extraordinary book; an intellectual feast.  Armstrong has amassed and integrated an amazing amount of information from developmental and transpersonal psychology, modern consciousness research, biology, anthropology, mythology, and art, and created an extraordinary guide through all the stages of the adventure of human life.  While the rich content of this book will impress professional audiences, its clear and easy style makes it quite accessible to the general public." Stanislav Grof, M.D., former Chief of Psychiatric Research, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, author of Realms of the Human Unconscious, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, and Adventures in Self-Discovery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1402739966
• ISBN 13: 9781402739965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368