Robert Bly has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need?.
The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need?
Summary
Robert Bly - one of the most compelling mythologists and storytellers of our time - captures the imagination in two live recordings. In The Human Shadow, Bly takes us on a thought provoking and entertaining journey exploring our "shadow" through poetry, music, and storytelling. Bly says that the development of the shadow starts in childhood when parents make it clear there are certain parts of us they don’t like: "you’re too noisy!" So we put this into a "bag". Over time, our independence and feeling also go into the bag, getting heavier and heavier. Then, according to Bly, we spend the rest of our life trying to get everything back out of the bag to live fully again. What Stories Do We Need? reminds us that the mythology we have inherited is often defective. Just as the church refused to accept the reality Galileo saw in his telescope, literalists have removed the dark soul images that nourished our ancestors from mythology by refusing to include them in our stories. But Bly reminds us that these are exactly the stories we need to hear.
©2009 Robert Bly (P)2009 BetterListen! LLC
W.B. Yeats and His Father
Summary
These broadcast quality archival recordings have been edited down into an amazing journey led by Robert Bly, one of America's greatest and entertaining thinkers. This audio explores the poetry of Yeats and goes deep into the author's biography to help bring to light the inspirations of Yeat's great works.
Public Domain (P)2016 BetterListen! LLC, all rights reserved.
Poems of Rumi
Summary
Jalaluddin Rumi is unquestionably one of the greatest spiritual poets of the world. This audio features Robert Bly and Coleman Barks each reading his own versons of Rumi. Brilliant musical accompaniment provides playfulness and ground to great spiritual expression.
©1989 Robert Bly and Coleman Barks (P)2016 Audio Literature, Phoenix Books