The Human Odyssey
Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life
"This is truly a major contribution — brilliant, beguiling, and as broad in concept as it is deep." — Jean Houston, PhD, author of The Possible Human Seasons of Life: The Dramatic Journey from Birth to Death The Human Odyssey is superb, magnificent, astonishing, unique, engrossing, eminently readable, informative, enjoyable, entertaining, profound. What else? I could go on. I hadn't expected anything like so remarkable a book." — Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and Magical Child The Human Odyssey . It is in many ways 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 of Frames of Mind Magic Trees of the Mind ; pioneer researcher into the effect of the environment on brain development; dissected Einstein's brainThe Human Odyssey . Your 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 to make their stages of life more meaningful. 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; Past President, Association of Transpersonal PsychologyThis Timeless Moment , and The Child of Your Dreams Once Upon a Mid-Life: Classic Stories and Mythic Tales to Illuminate the Middle Years and In the Ever After: Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life The Human Odyssey is written with lively scholarship and contains great depth and breadth, a wide range of fascinating materials, and many useful resources. It's a kind of 'everything book.'" — George Leonard, "the granddaddy of the consciousness movement" (Newsweek ) and author of The Transformation and The Ultimate Athlete The Human Odyssey provides readers with a fresh approach to developmental psychology. Dr. Armstrong has included a spiritual dimension of human growth that is lacking from most accounts but which is essential for a complete understanding of the human condition. It is a splendid, brilliant work." — Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., former president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, author of Personal Mythology: The Psychology of Your Evolving Self , and co-editor of The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians: An International Perspective The Future of the Body , The Life We Are Given , and God and the Evolving Universe Maps of Consciousness and The Unfolding Self , co-author (with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert) of The Psychedelic Experience , which was the inspiration for the Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows"The Journey to Be Born , featured on Oprah The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart ; member of the board of directors of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ChildrenThe Human Odyssey is just that: a tour de force by one of the leading experts in whole person development. I've never before seen such a comprehensive and readable work on the many stages that we humans go through on our journey through this life." — John W. Travis, M.D., founder of the first wellness center in the United States in 1975, co-author of Wellness Workbook , and co-founder of Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children.The Human Odyssey is 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, it's 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 Words From the Soul , Your Perfect Lips and Eros, Consciousness and Kundalini , and co-President of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology.The Extraordinary Power of Ordinary Things and Healing Words The Other Side of Haight Writing to Change the World and Reviving Ophelia The Human Odyssey , Armstrong provides a comprehensive framework for human development with characteristic depth and optimism." — Peggy O'Mara, Editor and Publisher of Mothering Magazine The Possible Human
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