Social Science audiobooks
The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 11 of 13
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
FOLLOWING YOUR BLISS. Heeding the "call of the Hero" and following your heart's longing is the challenge of contemporary times. Read more
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The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 8 of 13
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
GATEWAYS TO MYTH. How to appreciate and understand our own myths is the question underscoring this conversation. Read more
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The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 10 of 13
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
THE HEART OF MYTH. "Myths do not come from a concept system; they come from a life system...from where the heart is, and where the experience is” says Campbell. Read more
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The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 13 of 13
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
THE UNIVERSAL MYSTERY. Here Campbell discusses the four functions of mythology, and how it operates in all our lives. Read more
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The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 5 of 13
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
THE PATHLESS PATH. Describing the nature of the vision quest, Campbell explores the authentic Western spirit and the relevance of myth in restoring our relationship with the natural world. Read more
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The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 4 of 13
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
MYTHIC HORIZONS. The "essential drift" of mythology is that behind our apparent separateness is a fundamental unity among people. Read more
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The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 6 of 13
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
THE ETERNAL QUEST. Taking the risk of leaving the wasteland behind and living a spontaneous life is at the center of the mythic journey. Read more
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Towards Wholeness
By: David Bohm, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned physicist, David Bohm, describes scientific theory as the myth that drives our culture, and points out the fallacy of our belief system. He also presents his alternative for addressing the world’s mega-problems through engaging in a new level of “dialogue” among small groups of people. Read more
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Seeing With the Heart
By: David Whyte
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet and workshop leader Whyte tells us, “Poetry belongs in many parts of our lives. It can bring mythological and concrete worlds together.” He takes us on a journey from the outer world of the Galapagos Islands where he was a Naturalist Guide to the inner world of an emerging poet. Read more
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The Hero Inside
By: Carol Pearson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
What are the six main archetypes of the Hero’s journey? Pearson provides a map to chart and examine the heroic archetypes that exist in all of us, enabling us to better understand our own quest. Read more
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Discovering Your Personal Myth
By: David Feinstein & Stanley Krippner
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
What are the five stages of discovering your personal mythology and why is it important to understand it? How do cultural myths become personal ones? Probing the unconscious and uncovering the source of our behavior patterns serves as the focus for clarifying the role of myth in our personal lives as well as its extension to the culture. Read more
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The Gods in Everyone
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Both men and women carry the archetypal patterns of gods and goddesses. Here, Bolen, a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, discusses the power of this dynamic in our lives. She describes the Greek gods and their relevance in a patriarchal culture. Through understanding the different aspects of these gods, we can come to inhabit our lives more... Read more
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Circling the Earth: Creation Stories
By: Beatrice Bowles
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you have a myth working in your life (everyone does) and if you can see it, you can actually add to it. Also you can change it; you can banish certain things which have inhibited you," says Bowles. Included are five creation stories from various cultures. Bowles talks about how these stories are relevant to our lives. Read more
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I Send a Voice - Abridged
By: Evelyn Eaton
Narrated by: Ellen Burstyn
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the most definitive accounts of the training and work of a Pipe Carrier, I Send a Voice is a gripping first-person account inside a Native American sweat lodge ceremony. Evelyn Eaton writes of her resolve to become worthy of participating in this healing ritual as she embraces the whole length of "the hero's journey." Through tests and... Read more
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Beyond Dependence
By: Sue Patton Thoele
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Creativity and freedom come when we break the bonds of dependence and allow ourselves to stand as whole human beings without the need of external and artificial supports. This is everyone's challenge, but especially so for women, since their voices and energy are so needed now, according to Thoele, a psychotherapist. She describes her own... Read more
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The Different Drum - Abridged
By: M. Scott Peck
Narrated by: M. Scott Peck
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For a World in Conflict...
New Hope for Wholeness in the Modern Age!
A society of rugged individualists and economic competitors A world of nuclear politics and uncontrollable forces For many, modern living means loneliness, disaffection, apathy and isolation.
Is there an escape?
In a startling, life-affirming work by one of America's... Read more
Apartheid's People Series Segment #3
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The subject in this segment is a white man Janni La Roux, a farmer who lives near Cape Town and who defends the system. Read more
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Apartheid's People Series Segment #2
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this segment we meet a man who lives in two worlds. By day Mtutuzela Matshoba is an executive in the white business world, at night confined by law to his all-black township. Read more
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Apartheid's People Series Segment #1
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A profile of a black township called Kwa Thema. It's near the all-white town of Springs, an hour and a half from Johannesburg. More than 30 people have died in Kwa Thema in the last two months in clashes. Read more
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Will The Real Goddess Please Stand Up?
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Share with us in this illuminating, self-revealing search for a new vision for the roles of women in these times and new modes of expressing that vision. Jean Shinoda Bolen penetrates beyond the “historicity” of Greek myth to find living archetypes of psychological modes and life roles of women today. Read more
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Goddesses As Inner Images
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Psychiatrist Jean Bolen describes seven archetypal patterns embodied in seven of the Greek goddesses. In knowing which “goddess” is present, a woman can have a deeper understanding of everyday occurrences as well as more dramatic events--not to mention the benefits men can realize through a better understanding of the female psyche. Listen in... Read more
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Is There Enough to Go Around?
By: R. Buckminster Fuller
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This comprehensive imaginative thinker and visionary gives an extraordinary overview of the state of the planet and human history. Asked whether there are enough resources to support our growing population the late Buckminster Fuller, age 85 when this was recorded, responds with a tour-de-force capsule of the history of Western civilization. Read more
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The Dawn of the Solar Age
By: Hazel Henderson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Hazel Henderson provides some penetrating insights to help light our way through the darkness. Here she speaks of the death of the old socio/political model and the rise of new ways. Read more
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Erotic and Social Transformation
By: George Leonard
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
George Leonard (1923-2010) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. Read more
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