A View from the Rearview Mirror: Reading Life Backward

By Christopher Graham PhD CCHT

A View from the Rearview Mirror: Reading Life Backward

What if the meaning of your life isn't found by charging forward- but by looking back?

In this luminous and unflinching work, A View from the Rearview Mirror reframes Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey into the Mystical Hero's Journey-twelve archetypal stages not of adventure, but of memory, integration, and soul-making.

This is not a memoir. It's not a how-to manual. It is a mirror: one that reflects the restless questions you've carried, the synchronicities that stalked you, the initiations you didn't recognize until they broke you open.

Through vivid storytelling, reflective prompts, and practical rituals, the book guides you through:

The restless knowing that begins every transformation

The patterns and "coincidences" that echo until you finally listen

The thresholds, mentors, and descents that test and reconfigure you

The illumination that comes only after shadow

And the paradox of becoming a Master of Two Worlds-not perfect, not untouchable, but coherent and whole.

This edition includes 12 integration rituals-practices for returning to yourself when life pulls you apart again. Because the spiral never ends. It only deepens.

For seekers, questioners, mystics-in-progress, and anyone who knows the ache of becoming,
this book is an invitation to stop performing and start embodying. Not to escape life. But to live it-fully, fiercely, and with presence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1997640589
• ISBN13: 9781997640585
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Owhms Publishing
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"