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Phil Cousineau

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in Coumbia, South Carolina, The United States

November 26

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Nonfiction, Travel, Religion & Spirituality

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Phil Cousineau is the award-winning author of The Wisdom of the Odyssey and over forty other books, including the bestselling The Art of Pilgrimage, The Hero’s Journey, and Once and Future Myths. With more than 40 books and 25 scriptwriting credits to his name, the "omnipresent influence of myth in modern life" is a thread that runs through all his work.

A writer, filmmaker, storyteller, and cultural historian, Phil has consulted on mythology and story for major studios including Warner Brothers, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. A protege of mythologist Joseph Campbell, Cousineau began his career teaching screenwriting classes on Myth and the Movies at the American Film Institute in the 1980s.

He was co-writer and host of Link TV/PBS-TV's Global Spiri ...more

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	The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred 4.11 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words by Phil Cousineau (Goodreads Author), Gregg Chadwick (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.57 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins by Phil Cousineau (Goodreads Author), Gregg Chadwick (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.49 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Modern Times 3.98 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination (Burnout, Creativity, Flow, Motivation, for Fans of The Artist's Way) 4.18 avg rating — 87 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Moments: Marvelous Stories of Synchronicity-Meaningful Coincidences from a Seemingly Random World 3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day by Phil Cousineau (Goodreads Author), Jeff The Dude Dowd (Foreword) 4.06 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coincidence or Destiny?: Stories of Synchoronicity That Illuminate Our Lives by Phil Cousineau (Goodreads Author), Robert A. Johnson (Foreword) 3.66 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Roads: Travel Stories 3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Phil Cousineau rated a book it was amazing The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work by Joseph Campbell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I believe The Wisdom of the Odyssey is unique in how it explores the universal appeal of this 3,300-year-old story, and how it is still powerful, relevant, and wise today. For the first time, it positions the hero, King Odysseus of Ithaka, as a profo ...more
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“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”
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“Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.”
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“Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.”
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