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James Sale
What’s Wrong With the World?
In 1910, G.K. Chesterton’s book “What’s Wrong With the World” was published, and the title did not include ...
Literature
October 3, 2019
The Tower of Babel We Build
Ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it has become increasingly difficult to talk of myths and ...
Literature
September 18, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 10: Navigating Through Anger, the Last Temptation
Finally, Odysseus comes to the last of the nine temptations of the soul as represented in the Nine ...
Literature
August 20, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 9: Navigating Past Pride
We left Odysseus at type Three on the Enneagram almost totally destroyed. His ship and crew were completely ...
Literature
July 19, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 8: Navigating Through Self-Deceit
Odysseus has had a most terrifying, almost overwhelming, experience in summoning the dead spirits of Hades in order ...
Literature
June 14, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 7: Navigating Around Envy
We have seen Odysseus struggle with what might be called the lethargy of the body on the island ...
Literature
May 30, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 6: Navigating Past a Need to Hoard Knowledge
We have been retelling the story of the great adventurer Odysseus, as he attempts to escape from the ...
Literature
May 19, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 5: Navigating Beyond Fear
In modern psychology, we have books like “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway,” which are international best-sellers ...
Literature
May 16, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 4: Navigating Through the Hunger for the Ever-New
Imagine a world of perpetual feasting and drinking, where one was above the ordinary and everyday cares of ...
Literature
May 10, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 3: Navigating Beyond a Need for Power
In Part 2 of this series of articles, we saw Odysseus barely managing to escape from the land ...
Literature
April 29, 2019
Finding the True Self, Part 2: Navigating Past Inertia
In Part 1 of this series of articles, we introduced the nine types of personality that constitute the ...
Literature
April 15, 2019
Modern Technology and the God of Communications
Greek mythology offers insight into our love of technology.
Values and Tradition
April 12, 2019
Finding the True Self: Odysseus’s Journey, Part 1
The “Odyssey” is the most famous homecoming story in Western literature and mythology. It is justly famous because ...
Literature
March 26, 2019
Men and Women: Myths of Difference
Men know they need women, and not just for sex or reproductive purposes, but because women bring “beauty” ...
Men & Women: Embracing Our Differences
March 14, 2019
Apollo and the Making of Poetry
It was Lord Chesterfield, not a particularly profound thinker, who in 18th-century England correctly observed that "I am ...
Literature
January 29, 2019
The New Year and Our Ideal Self
The New Year has come, and I am sure most of us are considering or have written those ...
Literature
January 11, 2019
Ideal Leadership in Turbulent Times
Who we admire starts to become part of our 'ideal self'—that future-orientated component of our self-concept—and we start ...
Leading With Wisdom
January 7, 2019
The ‘Why’ of Christmas
The jolly season is with us. Those of a nonreligious disposition will probably go "bah humbug," note that ...
World Culture
December 25, 2018
Scylla and Charybdis: A Simple Myth, Appropriate for Now
Homer's “Odyssey” is, by common and universal consent, one of the greatest poems in the world, possibly the greatest. ...
Literature
December 10, 2018
Myth, Metaphor, and Marxist Bread
I have talked in previous articles on the importance of myth and story, and that how we apprehend ...
Literature
December 3, 2018
What ‘The Odyssey’ Can Teach Us
What—in one word—constitutes the most powerful methodology for teaching and learning in all human experience? Here’s a clue: ...
The Case for an Education Based on Virtues
December 3, 2018
The Myth of St. Michael and What It Tells Us
Contained in the myths and stories of the distant past are nuggets of wisdom and ideas that we ...
World Culture
November 19, 2018
Orpheus and Eurydice: The Myth That Explains Myths
The journey of the soul. Ah! Our soul. That is a story that has fascinated us from the ...
Literature
November 12, 2018
Myths: Mapping Our Way Home
In this series, Myths: Mapping Our Way Home, James Sale revisits why myths—all but discounted today—remain crucial to ...
World Culture
October 28, 2018
Commentary: ‘To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?’
Imagine that you were lost in a wilderness and had to find your way out. Fortunately, you have ...
Literature
September 5, 2018
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