Sam Keen is a noted American

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 author

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, professor

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 and philosopher who is best known for his exploration of questions regarding love, life, religion

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, and being a man in contemporary society. He also co-produced Faces of the Enemy, an award-winning PBS documentary

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; was the subject of a Bill Moyers

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 television

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 special in the early 1990s; and for 20 years served as a contributing editor

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 at Psychology Today

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 magazine. He is also featured in the 2003 documentary Flight From Death

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Keen completed his undergraduate studies at Ursinus College

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 in Collegeville, Pennsylvania

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 and later completed graduate degrees at Harvard University

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 and Princeton University

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Keen is married to Rev. Patricia de Jong, who is Senior Minister at First Congregational Church of Berkeley, United Church of Christ, in Berkeley, California.

In print

• In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred (2010)
• Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Chronicle Books, 2007)
• Faces of the Enemy. Reflections of the Hostoile Imagination. (Harper and Row, San Francisco 2004)
• Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go (1999)
• To Love and Be Loved (Bantam, 1997)
• Hymns to an Unknown God (Bantam, 1994)
• Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions (Bantam, 1992)
• Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man (Bantam, 1991)
• Your Mythic Journey (Tarcher, 1990)

Out of print

• The Passionate Life (Harper and Row)
• Beginnings Without End (Harper and Row, 1975)
• To a Dancing God (Harper and Row, 1970)
• Apology for Wonder (Harper and Row, 1969)

External links

• Official site
• Sam Keen MP3 audio - from Shift in Action, sponsored by Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Ancients were ahead of their time, The Sydney Morning Herald
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  , Paul Sheehan, October 16, 2006.
• Flight From Death on Hulu