Courting the Wild Twin

By: Martin Shaw

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses story to examine our broken relationship with the world!

Myth is our wild way of telling the truth, of sharing stories that have our living earth speaking through them. There is an old insistence that we each have a twin we know nothing about. A wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our energy with them.

This story is a quest to find and court our wild twin, for they have something important to tell us. If there was something we were here to do in our few, brief years, we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key.

In Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw, an accomplished storyteller and scholar of myth and oral tradition, explores two ancient myths concerned with the wild twin and shares how vital they are to our ability to confront challenges with purpose, courage and creativity.

Myths are our secret weapon. They have a radical agency of beauty in our age of amnesia, an agency far beyond concept and polemic.

©2020 Martin Shaw (P)2020 Chelsea Green Publishing

Alchemist of Words

Martin is an alchemist of the English language... this is a must read... thrilling and beautiful...

Beautifully profound

This is a book to be returned back to again and again. It touches us deeply and deserves to be savored.

Magically Inspiring

This book sneaks up on you. It surprised me while on a long drive I spontaneously, and against my will, erupted into tears for a lost Twin I never new I had. It inspires a wild, magical, childlike, sacredness.

Prepare for internal explosions

I've no idea how to write some words that would even hint at the experience of listening to this book. Beware the wild twin. She won't let you go back to your tidy life.....

Storytelling for becoming human.

Martin Shaw satisfies my soul and opens my heart. His voice walks with my unraveling dreams like the not so gentle husband of my imagination, breaking spells and making me wonder and wander deeper and further afield than I expected I might.