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Terrapsychology: Reengaging The Soul Of Place

Craig Chalquist

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Innovative, provocative and well-researched! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Terrapsychology is an emerging field that looks at the relationship between psyche and place. It is a natural outgrowth of tranpersonal psychology, ecology, systems theory and to some extent quantum theory.

This field basically looks at the relationship between the psyche and a place. This is not something we are used to thinking about, but did you ever notice how you feel differently or more yourself in certain environments? How being in nature can have an effect on you? How their can be correspondences between internal events and the outside world? This book examines these questions and more from the perspective of depth psychology and deep ecology.

The idea that there is relatioship between psyche and land is not a new one. Jung talked about this and the phenomenon was often explained in terms of our projection of our psyche on to the land. In contrast, indigenous shamanistic cultures tend to believe a place is somehow alive. The theory put forth in this book falls somewhere in the middle, honoring the fact that we are somehow deeply connected to the land and have complex interrelationships and interdependencies with various places that can be interpreted symbolically.

This is NOT new age hype and Dr. Chalquist is a serious scholar who explores this territory from an objective and scholarly viewpoint. If you are completely unfamiliar with this field you can do a web search online for more information. However, you will be fascinated and captivated by this extremely provocative book whether you are psychologist, interested in psychology or just a layperson who find this area interest. It is certainly a must read for anyone interested in native cultures, shaminism and the future welfare of our planet.

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This work develop a new perspective called "terrapsychology" to show us how to listen to recurring symbolic resonances between oursevles and the presence, voice, or soul of places and things which embody the animation of the world.

On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions (Studies in Jungian Psychology in Jungian Analysts, Volume 103)

James Hollis

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Willing to be Asked the Questions 5 out of 5 stars.
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"On This Journey We Call Our Life - Living the Questions (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts) is one of the 4 books by Hollis I own which include a superb audio book on CD he cogently narrates titled "The Middle Passage - From Misery to Meaning in Midlife". On This Journey... was published in 2003 and is his third latest book - his most recent being "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - How to Finally, Really Grow Up".

The Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts is a wonderful series published by Inner City Books with Daryl Sharp as founder and chief editor (himself an accomplished Jungian Analyst and writer). Marie-Louise von Franz is their Honorary Patron with 9 of her classic titles in the offerings. The publisher's charter was "...founded in 1980 to promote the understanding and practical application of the work of C.G. Jung." Since then they've published over 110 titles in this series with other prolific Jungian writers & analysts such as Barbara Hannah, Edward Edinger, and Marion Woodman to name a few. Hollis is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst practicing out of Texas where he is also the Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston. He's contributed 8 titles to the Studies in Jungian Psychology series himself. We recently shared some correspondence and I found him warm and thoughtfully responsive.

After a nice Publisher's Forward by Daryl Sharp, Hollis tells us early in his introduction "One way of looking at this journey is to observe that psyche presents us with two large questions..." one for each of the two halves of our lives. The question of the first half is '"What is the world asking of me?" and that of the second is "What, now, does the soul; ask of me?" To the first he remembers when, as children, we asked the great mysterious questions only to relinquish the profound imperative: "The wonder and terror forgotten, buried but not dead beneath the details of the daily grind." And, sadly "...we forgot those questions, and who we were, and that we were really called upon to do something with this gift of life." To the second question (for the second half of life) Hollis offers up some poignant questions to be asked (but not necessarily answered) by honest, humble, self-seekers willing to ask and grow. These ten questions are reflected in the Table of Contents and are expanded in each chapter to flesh out the real meaning of the questions. However Hollis does not "...purport to offer their answers, though I present possibilities."

By What Truths Am I Living My Life?
What Is My Shadow and How Can I Make It Known?
What Is My Myth?
What Is My Vocation?
What Are My Spiritual Points Of Reference?
What Fiction Shall Be My Truth?
What Is My Obligation to the World?
So, Ahem . . . What's This Death Business?
What Supports Me?
What Matters, in the End?

In his chapter "What Is My Shadow and How Can I Make It Known?" he poses "Seven Questions for Personal Reflection on the Shadow". Incidentally, the whole shadow business has been hands down the most fascinating topic for me. The subject proved the genesis of my journey into individuation and the world of Jungian psychology - a veritable gateway & goldmine!

One theme I appreciate in several of his works is the affirmation that "We are all more than the sum of what happened to us." that is "I am not what happened to me - I am what I choose to become."

There's some recurrence of certain poetry and philosophy from earlier works (e.g. "The Middle Passage") and this is certainly fine with me. To name a number of poets & philosophers he cites: James Agee, Stephen Dunn, T.S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kierkegaard, D.H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke, Dylan Thomas, Thoreau, Yeats (and C.G. Jung of course).
Relevant footnotes throughout helpfully point the interested reader to Hollis' earlier books and they show how this material effectively evolved out of those works. Simply put, this book ties together threads from those earlier works and weaves a nice tapestry of Jungian analysis. A good bibliography and index help the reader find sources and subjects.

The last chapter, "What Matters, in the End?" hits on aspects of our projections and requires "Doing Our Work" accepting responsibility, finding strength to pull back our projections, and a engaging in a rapport with our inner world where our choices develop. The next sub-chapter "Ask the Meaning of Your Suffering" explains how this question "tends to relocate our sense of selfhood beyond the narrow purview of our ego." It concludes with two sub-chapters that suggest we "Keep Asking What Matters, in the End" and "Suffer Consciously" lest we take the unconscious alternative of avoiding what is in us.

Finally, Hollis concludes: "...While the ultimate purpose of this journey and our unique role in the great scheme of things will remain a mystery, our questions serve us by keeping us on track. Something wants to live through us, and we need to allow it."

I was able to recognize a lot of material from this book in my life/history (as well as from my repeated listening to "The Middle Passage") and I'll undoubtedly re-read this book many times as it serves to illuminate the nature of my questions and the questions of my nature - the spirit of this is succinctly exemplified in a famous quote found in this book:

"The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me . . . or conversely, I myself am a question." CG Jung, MDR


IndiAndy
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We dance around in a ring and suppose.
But the secret sits in the middle and knows." Robert Frost
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable.
But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops." H.L. Mencken
Denying, believing and doubting are to men what running is to horses." Blaise Pascal
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds is as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." Albert Schweitzer

Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates, and Other Historical Figures (C.G. Jung Foundation Book)

Marie-Louise Von Franz

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These collected essays by the distinguished psychoanalyst Marie-Louise von Franz offer fascinating insights into the study of dreams, not only psychologically, but also from historical, religious, and philosophical points of view. In the first two chapters, the author offers general explanations of the nature of dreams and their use in analysis. She examines how dreams can be used in the development of self-knowledge and describes how C. G. Jung worked with his own dreams, and the fateful ways in which they were entwined with the course of his life. The rest of the book records and interprets dreams of historical personages: Socrates, Descartes, Themistocles and Hannibal, and the mothers of Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Dominic. Connections are revealed between the personal and family histories of the dreamers and individual and collective mores of their times. Dreams includes writings long out of print or never before available in English translation.

Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Relationship

DAVID SEDGWICK

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The unique relationship between patient and therapist is the main healing factor in psychotherapy. This book explains the Jungian approach to the therapeutic relationship and the treatment process.David Sedgwick outlines a modern Jungian approach to psychotherapy. He introduces, considers and criticises key aspects of Jungian and other theoretical perspectives, synthesizing approaches and ideas from across the therapeutic spectrum. Written in an accessible style and illustrated with numerous examples, this mediation on therapy and the therapeutic relationship will be invaluable to students and practitioners of both Jungian and non-Jungian therapy.

Archetypes & Strange Attractors: The Chaotic World of Symbols (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)

John R. Van Eenwyk, John R. Van Eenwyk

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A fine example of a psychology-physics bridge 5 out of 5 stars.
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Bridging inquiry and speculation into the inner details of the psyche is seductive work. As with any seduction, it can lead to wonderful acts of creation and enjoyment, but also to messy thinking - fallacies of misplaced concreteness (Whitehead), in which the poetic pleasure of expressing parallels between psyche and cosmos can obscure both careful thinking and genuine insight into difficult realities. I find this to be a special danger in the world of Jungian concepts, primarily because the old wizard himself set the stage for exploring links between the science of mind and the mysteries that are not yet in the reach of a given science.

The math and physics of quantum and complexity theories, and of dynamic systems, are both extraordinarily demanding and extraordinarily revealing in their relevance to anything in the world that partakes of interaction, and owes and contributes its nature to other complex interactions. That is to say, anything in the world, seen out of isolation, without any excess of empirical or conceptual filtration. I've read Eenwyk's book twice now, and found it illuminating in both its intelligent and accessible handling of the physics and math involved, and of the fragile but necessary connections of the infinite dynamic of the mind and the world. Highly recommended.

Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal

C. G. Jung

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C. G. Jung had a lifelong interest in the paranormal that culminated in his influential theory of synchronicity. Combining extracts taken from the Collected Works; letters; the autobiographical Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and transcripts of seminars, Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal sets out clearly his seminal contribution to our understanding of this controversial area.

In his introduction, Roderick Main discusses Jung's encounters with and observations of the paranormal, the influences that contributed to his theory of synchronicity, and the central ideas of the theory itself. The selections include Jung's writings on mediumistic trance phenomena, spirits and hauntings, anomalous events in the development and practice of analytical psychology, and the divinatory techniques of astrology and the I Ching. The book also features Jung's most lucid account of his theory in the form of his short essay "On Synchronicity," and a number of Jung's less-known writings on parapsychology, his astrological experiment, and the relationship between mind and body.

Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal addresses subjects that were fundamental to Jung's personal and professional development. Probing deeply into the theory of synchronicity, Roderick Main clarifies issues that have long been a source of confusion to Jung's readers.

The Matrix and Meaning of Character: An Archetypal and Developmental Approach

Dougherty/West

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Excellent Book For Teaching 5 out of 5 stars.
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Dougherty and West write clearly and make psychodynamic theory understandable. I'm using it in a psychotherapy seminar with staff at a psychiatric hospital who have a wide range of backgrounds. We have found that the fairy tales along with clinical case examples ground the theoretical discussions and help integrate the material. Looking at character through both developmental and archetypal lenses gives a deeper understanding and is refreshing to those who work day to day with DSM IV and cognitive behavioral therapy.

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Character structures underlie everyone's personality. When rigidly defended, they limit us; yet as they become more flexible, they can reveal sources of animation, renewal and authenticity.

The Matrix and Meaning of Character guides the reader into an awareness of the archetypal depths that underlie character structures, presenting an original developmental model in which current analytic theories are synthesized. The authors examine nine character structures, animating them with fairy tales, mythic images and case material, creating a bridge between the traditional language of psychopathology and the universal realm of image and symbol.

The Two Million-year-old Self (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)

Anthony Stevens

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With the evolution of human consciousness, nature has finally become conscious of itself. It has taken eons of time, this lumbering progress through the minds of reptiles, mammals, and primates, and it is still working out its purpose in the archetypes of the collective unconscious encoded in the most ancient parts of the human brain. The recent evolutionary history of our species, which Jung personified as "the two million-year-old human being in us all," is still active in our dreams, myths, psychiatric symptoms, traditional healing practices, and typical patterns of behavior. Through a wide-ranging review of developments in anthropology, ethology, sociobiology, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and Jungian psychology, Anthony Stevens explores the nature of the two million-year-old self and examines ways in which the contemporary world both fulfills and frustrates its basic needs and intentions. Drawing on his experience as an analyst, Stevens evokes dreams and psychiatry to reveal a compelling and challenging view of the two million-year-old Self as embodying no less than the will of nature. By granting close attention to nature's mind, Stevens argues, we not only further personal wholeness but also help redress the gross imbalances of our culture, which are threatening the destruction of the earth. For the ecologically concerned, this book offers a dramatic new perspective on our future relations with our planet.

Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)

Sylvia Brinton Perera

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Ancient Rite? Or Daily Activity? 4 out of 5 stars.
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I have often, among people in our culture, heard the ancient practice of human sacrifice deemed horrific: the product of people closer to animals than the civilized beings we are now. But the truth is, we're still doing it today.
In The Scapegoat Complex, the second book from Sylvia Brinton Perera, Jungian Analyst and C.G. Jung professor, we see it is so. The practice of Scapegoating, or sacrificing a being as a symbol of casting out sin, has not been left behind. Rather it has evolved along with our species into a more sophisticated, less conspicuous, perhaps far more dangerous practice. Rather than carrying out acknowledged rituals among and for the public, we have begun subconsciously attaching our shadows to those we then hold far from us, thus cleansing ourselves of the sin. We may worship different gods these days, and in some different ways, but the act of ridding is still alive and still hurts many of those among us.
Perera, as a practitioner, is largely concerned with the act of scapegoating within the family framework. She uses plenty of case notes to keep her writing vivid and describes some interesting modes of healing. At the heart of the solution, as with all therapy, is understanding. Of course with scapegoating, this solution is particularly challenging, and important, because the entire point of scapegoating is the refusal to understand - to in a way, attach the painful side of truth to a person or being other than oneself rather than to try to understand the truth at all.

" There are several ways of treating anomalies. Negatively we can ignore, just not perceive, or perceiving we can condemn. Positively we can deliberately confront the anomaly and try to create a new pattern of reality in which it has a place" (32).

Perera writes a readable and convincing book on a topic we speak little about. Relevant today, certainly, and probably far into the future, I see it as a point of reference for all kinds of conflicts within as well as without the family structure; in politics certainly, in education, publishing, and our social lives.
As always, the hope is to evolve. We stopped with the pyramids and the sacrificing of the virgins and all that, maybe for this unconscious business it's just a matter of time. Or maybe we'll revert, I could see that happening. Coming next fall to FOX: it's Sacrifice, the hot new reality show where one contestant wins a million dollars and then is offered up to the volcano god, still in their bikini. Imagine just the sponsorship dollars alone.

At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung's Spiritual Testament (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts)

J. Gary Sparks

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Especially recommended for library shelves devoted to Jungian psychology and spirituality. 5 out of 5 stars.
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Author J. Gary Sparks, a Jungian analyst who has studied both religion and the sciences, presents At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung's Spiritual Testament, a tour through both the basics of physics (including classical Newtonian principles and modern quantum theory) as well as C.G. Jung's search for the mysterious connection between the physical and the spiritual, as well as selfhood and destiny. Drawing upon the wisdom of three great thinkers - Swiss psychiatrist Jung Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, and analyst-scholar Marie-Louise von Franz - At the Heart of the Matter strives to clarify the phenomenon that is synchronicity, and uncover common ground between the scientific and the spiritual in practicing analytical psychology as part of a holistic approach to help the suffering of patients. "The reason we can know anything about the inner workings of the material world is that there is a coincidence between our own thought-forms and the processes going on in matter. 'To know' means to link up the inner archetypal patterns of the psyche with those that structure the outer world. And 'knowing' first happens in images and emotions before it becomes thoughts and concepts." Especially recommended for library shelves devoted to Jungian psychology and spirituality.

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An extraordinary book important both for its clarification of the phenomenon of synchronicity and for its implications for the survival of Western civilization. The author, scientist and Jungian analyst, takes readers gently through a basic understanding of physics, from classical Newtonian to modern quantum, and weds that to C.G. Jung's long-standing inquiry into the enigmatic relationship between matter and spirit, selfhood and destiny.