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Courting the Wild Twin

By: Martin Shaw
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Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses story to examine our broken relationship with the world!

Myth is our wild way of telling the truth, of sharing stories that have our living earth speaking through them. There is an old insistence that we each have a twin we know nothing about. A wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our energy with them.

This story is a quest to find and court our wild twin, for they have something important to tell us. If there was something we were here to do in our few, brief years, we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key.

In Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw, an accomplished storyteller and scholar of myth and oral tradition, explores two ancient myths concerned with the wild twin and shares how vital they are to our ability to confront challenges with purpose, courage and creativity.

Myths are our secret weapon. They have a radical agency of beauty in our age of amnesia, an agency far beyond concept and polemic.

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I stumbled across this book, and I'm so much the better for it. The language, the themes, the narration....a wonderful listen that's left me feeling more at home than I have been for a good while.

it's just great

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I can't get enough of this book. It is an absolute gem and gets better with each listen. I've lost count of how many times I've heard the addictive tones reveal a new angle each time it's played. I've bought the hard copy to and keep passing it on to friends and having to buy another. Love it. highly recommended.

Spellbinding, ancient, timely and wonderful

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Martin’s use of the vehicle of story and folktale to explore the depths of the human soul and it’s response to the wider world is done with subtlety and eloquence; yet it compels one to reach inside and discover anew.

His performance is as you would expect of a storyteller, flawless and intriguing.

Beautiful poetic exploration of life

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Fantastic book & read so wonderfully by Martin Shaw. I love how he processes each story.
There are so many lines I resonate with.
Where is my own wild self? Martin offers us a chance to reflect on such musings. For which I am grateful, its let me wander down the less conventional paths I harbour inside. Take a full look at the parts of me cast-off in striving for 'achievement' a conventional blight which we inflict on ourselves.
This book is in opposition to such things, it is a hand outstretched with wild offerings.

Bloody brilliant!

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Wholesome wondering from the heart. Shaw claims he isn't spiritual, but don't believe him. Thoroughly enjoyed

Wholesome

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