Chiron Publications is pleased to release Storytime with Robert: Robert A. Johnson Tells His Favorite Stories and Myths.
Robert A. Johnson was more than an international best-selling author of fifteen books, brilliant and influential Jungian analyst, and acclaimed international lecturer; he was a master storyteller.
âOne could see clearly that the people lovedâactually, âadoredâ would be the better word â this master storyteller," says Murray Stein. "Everyone referred to him as âRobert,â and we all knew immediately who was meant when that name was mentioned. There was only one Robert.â
This collection, compiled by Nonnie Cullipher, is transcribed from Robertâs own tellings throughout the years. Robert told these stories, his favorites, to an appreciative and revering community each night at Journey into Wholeness events from 1981 to 2001. Robert collected several of these stories in his beloved India, but the book includes stories and myths from Chinese, Native American, Mexican, and European traditions. Each story is introduced by a colleague, mentee, or friend whose life was profoundly changed by the presence and teachings of this wise and other-wordly sage.
Robert taught us we could enjoy a myth or a story as a child would, or we could listen more carefully to discover a roadmap for our own inner work. Magical, humorous, tragic, enigmatic, these stories illustrate Robertâs capacity to speak to the delights and adversities of the human experience, and to our collective quest to become our most conscious and authentic selves.