Walking shadows : archetype and psyche in crisis and growth /
There are certain unusual mental states that have such an extraordinary intensity, that they are numinous; they involve the presence of an archetype. These states can be beautiful or utterly terrifying; they can predispose to illness but if carefully negotiated they carry enormous potential for acce...
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London :
Muswell Hill,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Intense States of Meaning
- 1. Visiting Heaven and Hell
- 2. Is There an Underlying Reality?
- 3. Jung's Archetypal Voyage
- 4. Archetypal Crises
- 5. Archetypal Penetrance
- 6. Synchronicity
- 7. A Meaning Filled Mind Field
- 8. Transcendent Nature
- Section 2. Self, Shadow and Us
- 9. Crisis - Danger and Opportunity
- 10. Breaking Down or Breaking Through?
- 11. The Journey to the Self
- 12. Icarus and Narcissus
- 13. Into the Darkness
- 14. The Numinous Feminine
- 15. Ego Death and the Midlife Crisis
- 16. Pain and the Perinatal
- 17. Matters of Heart
- Section 3. Working with the Numinous
- 18. Encounter with Death
- 19. Mindfulness and the Empathic Observer
- 20. The Way of the Imagination
- 21. Psychedelics - Gateway to the Numinous
- 22. Breathing.