In The Cry For Myth, Rollo May joins Joseph Campbell in lamenting the loss of mythic consciousness in our time. Why do we need myths? To give us “the inner security we need in order to live adequately in our day” (p. 9). We need “to give meaning to our lives” (p. 10) and myths “like the beams in a house” (p. 15) will hold us together in these troubled, misguided times. Lest we fall prey to “the rationalistic psychiatrist” (p. 19) and the lure of technology, we should heed the eternal truths of great Western narratives,