Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us Audiobook

From “one of the greatest storytellers we have” (Robert Bly) comes an urgent invitation to allow the oldest stories—and the Greatest Story—to reshape our own.

There’s an old Irish belief that if you aren’t wrapped in a cloak of story, you will be unprepared for what the world will hurl at you. You remain adolescent at just the moment that a culture worth its salt requires you to become a real, grown, human being.

In Liturgies of the Wild, acclaimed mythographer, storyteller, and Christian thinker Martin Shaw argues that we live in a myth-impoverished age and that such poverty has left us vulnerable to stories that may not wish us well.

Drawing on the “ancient technologies” of myths and initiatory rites, Shaw provides a road to wholeness, maturity, and connection. He teaches us to read a myth the way it wants to be read, provides vivid retellings of tales powerful enough to carry you through life’s travails, and shows you how to gather and reshape your own thrown-away stories.

Most vividly, he shares how these ancient technologies led him unexpectedly to Christ, “the True Myth,” by way of a thirty-year journey and a 101-night vigil in a Dartmoor forest.

Combining scholarly erudition with nimble storytelling in the tradition of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Liturgies of the Wild is a thrilling counsel of resistance and delight in the face of many modern monsters.

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“A journey of heart-expanding magic and redemption.”

— Glen Hansard, Academy Award winning singer-songwriter