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Stories We Need to Know: Reading Your Life Path in Literature

12 reviews
Allan G. Hunter

Findhorn Press, 2008

A Journey from Ancient to Present
This book is a must read for all people who want to understand the links between literature, culture and how we feel and think today. The book wonderfully guides us through various literary and psychological archetypes that have become a part of our Western culture. We feel as we read this book that the connections writers made in the past /present to the cosmos still resound with relevance ...

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths & Stories About the Wild Woman Archetype

12 reviews
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sounds True, 1994

Not one-sided
I just want to say that this material is as valuable for the male as it is for the female. Just as the stories are timeless and archetypal, so are the messages contained within. I'd recommend WWRWW to anyone interested in inner work and understanding, and also the Theatre of the Imagination (two volumes) audio series, which doesn't suffer from the perception that it is for women (only).

Chakras and Their Archetypes: Uniting Energy Awareness and Spiritual Growth

14 reviews
Ambika Wauters

Crossing Press, 1997

healers mental handbook
This book has become a handbook in my practice of Life Coaching using the modality of Rapid Eye Technology. It is amazing how the author clearly explains the mind states of each archetype and how to get into balance. Connecting these archetypes to a chakra is genius. Simple, concise, to the point, easy to use. I am hoping Wauters is working on connecting archetypes to all 12 chakras, she has ...

Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes for Self-Discovery - A Book of Exploration and 40 Cards

13 reviews
Linda Kohanov

New World Library, 2007

For the love of horses and healing.
This is an awesome book with beautifuly illustrated cards, all with horses. If you love horses and want to investigate some ideas about healing yourself and get insight into yourself this is a must have. I love it!

A Witch's Book of Dreams: Understanding the Power of Dreams and Symbols

16 reviews
Karri Ann Allrich

Llewellyn Publications, 2001

A great find
As someone who had a) never been able to remember his dreams, and b) never ascribed any importance or meaning to them, I was delighted to come across A Witches Book of Dreams. In her book, Ms. Allrich offers amazingly simple methods to help us remember dreams; convincing evidence that dreams are messages from our subconscious, clues and symbols that, when deciphered, allow us to better understand ...

Awaken The Slumbering Goddess: The Latent Code Of The Hindu Goddess Archetypes

11 reviews
Ashok Bedi

BookSurge Publishing, 2007

Brilliant discussion
Awaken the Slumbering Goddess is a refreshing discussion of how to understand the complicated pantheon of Hindu gods and goddesses. Dr. Bedi brings his expertise as a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and Hindu to the subject. Archetypal energies are alive in all of our psyches and Dr. Bedi explains how these energies might be understood and accepted. Once brought to consciousness they can be ...

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

9 reviews
C.G. Jung

Routledge, 1991

An Essential Work by Jung.
This work, along with _Modern Man in Search of a Soul_, is one of the best places to start if you are new to reading Jung. It is also the companion piece and predecessor to _Aion_, which is another spectacular and groundbreaking work. If you want to read _Aion_, it would make sense for you to read this one first, since it is part 1 of volume nine, while _Aion_ is part two. Overall, I would say ...

Practically Shameless: How Shadow Work Helped Me Find My Voice, My Path, and My Inner Gold

25 reviews
Alyce Barry

Practically Shameless Press, 2008

Moving, Helpful and Real
This review relates to the audio book. First the caveats: (1) As Alyce makes clear in the book, Shadow Work is brand name for a particular method of personal growth and the certified practitioners who offer it for a fee; (2) The book may be difficult to fully understand or appreciate if one has no experience in self-examination or the 'inner path', (3) While I personally have no stake in Shadow ...

The book of questions

12 reviews
Pablo Neruda

Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2001

Brief Lines That Create Nostalgia For Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda is much missed as a poet and thinker. Since his death in 1973 there has been an even stronger growing of appreciation for his unique style of writing. During his last days he composed this strange little collection of some 300-odd questions and a number of poems all dealing with the life cycle as only one who sees his end at hand can write. The subjects are death, rebirth and ...

A Blue Fire

9 reviews
James Hillman

HarperPerennial, 1991

Thoughtful and engaging. It gives pause for reflection.
"Blue Fire" is an anthology of selections from James A. Hillman's major works, including "Insearch: Psychology and Religion," "Suicide and the Soul," "Healing Fiction," and others, including journal and magazine articles in such diverse publications as "Spring," "Utne Reader," "Institute Newsletter," and "Loose Ends: Primary Papers in Archetypal Psychology." This should not scare you away. ...

Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World

8 reviews
Carol S. Pearson

HarperOne, 1991

An easy-to-read yet rigorous entry point into self analysis
As a software developer and mathematician presently in my early 60's, ever since I can remember I have always been long on technology and short on "people" knowledge Yet from my early adolescence I remember my dad telling me how important it is to know oneself. While I always agreed with this good advice, whenever I explored my soul, I seemed to fail to come up with meaningful, ...

Cosmic Sugar: The Amorous Adventures of a Modern Mystic

7 reviews
Leela Jones

iUniverse, Inc., 2008

Thisbook helped heal me
I read Cosmic Sugar on the advice of a friend. I lead a very straight and conventional life I have been married for 18 years and raised two children held executive positions and owned my own business. While reading Cosmic Sugar I was constantly entertained and found that I could not put the book down after reading just a few pages it was a mission that I needed to complete. I found that I have ...

Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy

6 reviews
Douglas J. Soccio

Wadsworth Publishing, 2006

A Must!
Having first read Archetypes of Wisdom (an older version) back in my first year or so of college, I eagerly awaited revisions to the book I fell in love with. Soccio did not disappoint. The newest edition of Archetypes of Wisdom is its best yet and I strongly encourage anyone interested in philosophy to give this book a read. Ideas are presented in a clear cut manner as is the biographies of ...

The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By

6 reviews
Carol S. Pearson

HarperOne, 1998

Gives a way out...
This book really helped me to embrace the different stages in life and showed me how to grow into who I want to be. It not only restored my faith in "This to shall pass", but showed me how and why. It helped me to accept the lessons I needed to know then and now. It is a book I give to friends when they hit the wall. There is nothing better I can do for them.

Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty

9 reviews
Jean Shinoda Bolen

HarperCollins, 2001

Calling all women!
In a culture that worships youthful beauty, this book reminds us all that our esoteric standards are stifled, immature and limited. The wonderful Bolen leads women (and real men) on a revealing and empowering exploration of the many rich, strong, wise, diverse and beautiful identities that both shape and define the gifts of "older" women. I have shared this book with my daughters, my friends ...

Maps of Meaning

9 reviews

Taylor & Francis, 2007

If you are only going to read 1 book in your life...
this is THE book to read! This puts into perspective any of the other books you might read, including religious books like the Bible! This book unlocks the symbolism used in profound writings of history. Talks about the deep symbolism of the deepest human aspirations--unlocks what has been hidden under these murky symbols. Jordan shows us the true nature of the heroic impulses for the individual ...

Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth

8 reviews
William Anderson

HarperSanFrancisco, 1990

Take this book to Europe.....
I particularly enjoyed GREEN MAN because the author William Anderson brings together and explores many subjects of interest to me -- the natural world, mythology and archtypes, Gothic church architecture, Wordsworth, and the concept of Gaia. GREEN MAN has been described by it's critics as a book about Mythology and Ecology, but I think Anderson has also written a very fine art history. Anderson ...

Gods in Everyman

8 reviews

HarperCollins e-books, 2008

I keeping giving this book to people
One of my favorite Jungian authors has written a book that I keep giving away. I have given it to young fathers trying to understand their sons, I have given it to friends trying to understand themselves, I have given it to collegues trying to understand their patients, and I give it to myself by reading every now and then. If you want a framework, a language, a reference point to understand and ...

A Primer of Jungian Psychology

8 reviews
Calvin S. Hall, Vernon J. Nordby

Signet, 1973

Great Jung cover
Jung builds off many of Freuds concepts, therefore the author Calvin Hall had to, and does have a sense of Freudian psychology. There are also many things that are Jungs own such as ideas about: a collective unconscious, archetypes, dreams and symbols and various personality types. All these things and more covered by Calvin Hall - originating from Carl Gustov Jung. Read it.

Theatre of the Imagination

8 reviews
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sounds True, 2005

THE HIGHLIGHTS
I thought it might be helpful to write what it says on the back of album in "highlights", because that's what w'd be reading if we were looking at it in a store-Thee are 2 volumes of this amazing work-VOLUME ONE includes "TAPE ONE, Godmother Death- The cycles of life & death, Our mother tongue, The language of symbols, Images of the moon landing, Aesculapius, Aztec Goddess Txati,Symbolic 13-TAPE ...

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