Carrying on the work of mythologist, author, and musician

Daniel “3D” Deardorff

Restoring the Wisdom of Myth to Culture and Community

 
 
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Writing

 

The Other Within

The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture & Psyche

By Daniel Deardorff

Introduction by Robert Bly
New afterword by Martin Shaw
New foreword by Robert Simmons
3rd Edition published by Inner Traditions

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Quanita Roberson and Judith-Kate Friedman talk about Daniel Deardorff’s The Other Within and its relevance for our times.

 
 
 

Teaching

 
Storyteller, musician and myth scholar Daniel Deardorff explains how misfits embody trickster-wisdom, and provide creative benefits to the same society that ...
Daniel Deardorff tells a Paiute Coyote trickster story as an entry point into his work on the genius of deformity, the book "The Other Within." Full text of ...
 
 

Music

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Live Performance:

Partners in life, love, and music, Daniel Deardorff and Judith-Kate Friedman perform "Love Dogs" - Daniel's song inspired by a classic poem by the 13th c. po...
 
 

Storytelling

Storyteller Daniel Deardorff explores the interplay between authority and authenticity. One without the other, he says, is "abdication." He peppers his comme...
World class mythtellers Danny Deardorff & Martin Shaw on top form with a live audience. Filmed at the West Country Storytelling Festival 2008, Dartington, De...
 
 

Prelude to Mandorla Rising

Judith-Kate Friedman’s dissertation on the work of and her life with Daniel Deardorff

4 Songs by Daniel “3D” Deardorff

Mandorla Rising:

 

Reflections and Explorations into the Other Within and the Life, Work and My Life with Mythsinger Daniel Deardorff

Judith-Kate Friedman’s creative dissertation for her Master’s degree in Poetics of Imagination (Dartington Arts School, UK, 2021).

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