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Sam Keen, author of twelve books, including Fire in the Belly, served as consulting editor at Psychology Today for many years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and lives in Sonoma, California. (Bowker Author Biography) Author and educator Sam Keen was educated at the Harvard Divinity show more School and Princeton University. Keen is a former editor of Psychology Today magazine and has held positions at the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Prescott College and the Humanistic Philosophy Institute. Keen's books include Voices and Vision, Your Mythic Journey and Hymns to an Unknown God. He also co-produced the PBS documentary, Faces of the Enemy, which was a 1998 Emmy nominee. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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Sam Keen

Sam Keen, PhD, is a freelance philosopher, teacher, workshop leader, and a renowned leader in the personal mythology movement. He holds graduate degrees from the Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University, but prefers to be known as a natural philosopher. While an editor at Psychology Today for 20 years, he brought thinkers such as Joseph Campbell to national attention.

Keen is the author of 15 books, including the best sellers Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man; Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go; and To Love and Be Loved. He is coauthor, with his son Gifford Keen, of Prodigal Father Wayward Son. He also coproduced the award-winning PBS documentary Faces of the Enemy, and his work was the subject of a PBS special with Bill Moyers called Your Mythic Journey With Sam Keen.

What People are Saying About Sam Keen

“Sam Keen is one of our liveliest minds. It’s a joy to go with him as a guide to the byways of the soul in the search for greater meaning in life.”
—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

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Sonoma philosopher Sam Keen dives deep into everyone’s life story

Sam Keen lives halfway down a dirt road on its way to a monastery. His low-slung, hand-built house is quietly exploding with mementos from his many years as a writer, psychologist, philosopher and father – the house itself he built with his son – and among the mementos are a giant clamshell his own father left him. It sits on a low stone fence next to a busy birdbath, which Keen has rigged to “outfox the squirrels.”

Those are family stories that readers of his books know, because Keen doesn’t hold much back, or doesn’t seem to: His books are deep dives not only into his own life story, but into the chambers and detours of psychology. It’s his particular genius that his journey has become a collective one, most notably in his 1991 “Fire in the Belly: On Becoming a Man.”

That was one of two books around which the so-called “Men’s Movement” revolved, the other being Robert Bly’s “Iron John,” both inspired by Joseph Campbell’s “Hero with a Thousand Faces.”

But Bly was a poet, while Keen is a polymath – an “over educ

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