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As requested here’s Sam Keen’s Fire in the BellyScanned first for The PlaceThe audio book is already on the site. ‘m sorry this took so long – I’ve not been 100% recently then recently an ex of mine died. Seraphina, I still think of you.I’m pulling myself out of my funk so should be able to get on with the backlog of scanning.Onto the book.This was scanned and OCRd – I spent a 2 days cleaning it up.It is searchable.Why so big? Because there are some high resolution images in it. The OCR program I have access to at work doesn’t do tables that well. (There’s no point in telling me to get another one – I can’t ) There are some surveys in the back and a couple of smaller tables in the main body. I didn’t want to do them half arsed or leave them out so opted for an image. I did them at a decent resolution for printing.Error Checking: I’ve gone through only at a page look level, not word for word level. I’m confident there are no errors in the main text – there are errors with the note number in the text – I’ve got around half of them. Sorry about that.Constructive comments are welcome.DescriptionFrom Publishers WeeklyThe new male that Keen envisions is neither devoted careerist nor self-absorbed New Age guy nor cool, detached “post-modern man.” He is husbandman and steward of the earth–strong, vulnerable, with a capacity for moral outrage, empathy and wonder–whose right livelihood is consonant with ecological awareness. Consulting editor of Psychology Today , Keen ( Faces of the Enemy ) argues that men must define their identities by severing themselves from women as approval-giving mother figures and as the ancient Goddess who continues to exert power within the male psyche’s hidden recesses. Going beyond the modern rites of manhood–alienating work, war, performance-oriented sex–the new male “psychonaut” brings forth meaning by undertaking “a spiritual journey into the self.” Men–and women–will be enriched by the uncommon insights in Keen’s speculative primer.From Library JournalIt would be too simplistic to characterize this book as a treatise on male liberation, for Keen goes farther in categorizing male and female traits than do many other books on the subject. Many readers may even find his discussion in the chapter “It’s a Woman’s World” disquieting. Keen argues that if the old gender/sex differentiations are wrong, so are modern unisex approaches. The difference between men and women is more than biological. Keen does not articulate the difference, however, calling it a mystery. Describing what being a man has historically meant, he argues forcefully that we need a new understanding, one that he hopes his book will help form. Challenging, well written, recommended, and definitely not for men only.- John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Lib., New York