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Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness

Author, psychologist, and astrologer Monika Wikman has worked for decades with clients and their dream symbols and witnessed the presence of the divine hand at work in the psyche. In The Pregnant Darkness, Wikman shows readers that the best way to cope with their darkest hours is by fostering a connection to the deeper current of …

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The Healing Imagination: The Meaning of Psyche and Soul

This eloquent work speaks of the centrality of imagination in the life of the spirit. Ann and Barry Ulanov describe the imagination as a bridge between the psyche and the spirit. Using rich imagery drawn from literature, film, and their own experience as therapists, they unlock for us the healing power of our imagination. “Imagination …

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Blake, Jung, and the Collective Unconscious: The Conflict Between Reason and Imagination

In this thoughtful discussion of Blake’s well-known Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Singer shows us that Blake was actually tapping into the collective unconscious and giving form and voice to primordial psychological energies, or archetypes, that he experienced in his inner and outer world. With clarity and wisdom, Singer examines the images and words in each plate …

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Jung and the Alchemical Imagination

Jung and the Alchemical Imagination illustrates the spiritual nature of Jungian psychology and the debt it owes to the tradition of esoteric religion. Unlike other books on Jung and alchemy which contain a psychological interpretation of alchemical material, this work uses alchemy to understand the three cornerstones of Jungian spirituality–the self, the transcendent function, and …

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Madness and Creativity

Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insight that shakes both analysand and analyst to the core, reminding us as it does that the suffering places of the human psyche are inextricably—and, often inexplicably—related to …

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Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity

In this groundbreaking book, David H. Rosen, M.D., offers depressed individuals, their families, and therapists a lifesaving course in healing the soul through creativity. This is a book about transforming depression and its powerful pull toward suicide into a meaningful alternative. In Transforming Depression, Dr. Rosen applies Carl Jung’s method of active imagination to treating depressed …

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Extraodinary in the Ordinary

Pittman McGehee offers us brilliant gems of poetry full of light and sound, filled with carefully carved images drawn from the seemingly ordinary world. These words startle with their beauty and insights that show us how to transform the familiar, the mundane into the truly extraordinary.

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Healing the Wounded God: Finding Your Personal Guide on Your Way to Individuation and Beyond

Through their work with their clients, their own experiences, and studies in myth, mysticism, and alchemy, the authors have traced the emergence of a new spiritual paradigm in which the divine seeks wholeness through and with us. Many of us are having experiences that bring us in contact with a being who seems to exist …

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Nod of Knowing

In Nod of Knowing, Pittman shows us the sacred in the everyday moments of our lives. From the beautiful bloom of a morning glory flower, to a precious curl of a little girl’s hair, to a majestic cowboy’s nod of knowing, we find glimpses of the divine. Pittman’s accessible, crafted, and playful poetry encourages readers to …

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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

What does it really mean to be a grown up in today’s world? We assume that once we “get it together” with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and is rarely the respite of stability we …

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