Sam Keen

Samuel McMurray Keen was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 23, 1931, and grew up in Maryville, Tennessee, and Wilmington, Delaware. He earned a bachelor's degree from Ursinus College, a doctorate in theology from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD in religious philosophy from Princeton University. ==Career==

Keen worked as a freelance journalist for some time, and authored several books about spirituality and religion. He was also featured in the 2003 documentary Flight from Death. Keen gained notice for his various self-help books and workshops. In 1991, his book Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man was published, and was part of a movement which encouraged men to "follow their warrior spirit", as The New York Times described it. Keen believed that contemporary society and harmed and constrained men and women, and said that a productive movement could provide the same liberation for men as feminist movements could for women. Later, Keen became interested in the flying trapeze, and said it could provide psychological benefits in his 1999 book Learning to Fly: Trapeze – Reflections on the Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go. ==Personal life and death==

Keen's marriages to Heather Barnes and Janine Lovett ended in divorce; he had two children from his first marriage and one from his second. They lived on a ranch in Sonoma, California. ==Books==

In print • Prodigal Father, Wayward Son (2015) • In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred (2010) • Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Chronicle Books, 2007) • 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) • Faces of the Enemy. Reflections of the Hostile Imagination. (Harper and Row, San Francisco 1986) 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) • Gabriel Marcel (John Knox Press, 1967) ==See also==