Embrace of the Daimon: Sensuality and the Integration of Forbidden Imagery in Depth Psychology - Couverture souple

Dennis, Sandra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0892540567 ISBN 13 : 9780892540563

Editeur : Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

This ground-breaking book written over a nine-year period is the result of the author's personal experience and her research into the literature of the daimonic imaginal realm of the archetypes - the land of the daimons the source of creativity the soul.People who have been in the grip of imaginal reality - or who have known people or helped clients going through the process - will find this book an eye opening experience. The daimons facilitate the incarnation of soul into the physical body and transform those dark taboo energies that we avoid so we can progress as spiritual beings. When we devalue erotic feminine and instinctual energies we block ourselves from embracing the mysteries of death birth and sexual union. Dennis explains how we do this and how we can learn to work with the daimonic energy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year—Finalist Body/Mind/Spirit USA Best Book Awards Winner—Philosophy Next GenerationIndie Book Award Winner—New Age Have you wrestled with uncanny, nightmarish imagery in dreams or waking? Life crises, trauma, deep meditation, prayer or inquiry can unleash surprisingly compelling yet scary, even revolting, imagery and related feelings. With few maps to help navigate this terrain, we are tempted to deny or repress our experience. Precipitated by a descent into the dark recesses of her own psyche, in this award-winning book, Sandra Dennis explores the eruption of strange, wild, compelling characters from the unconscious that she calls ‘daimons.’ The Greeks understood the daimon as the intermediary between gods and humans, the guardian spirit assigned at birth that connects heaven and earth. These messengers come as agents of inner transformation. When we welcome them with understanding and compassion, they expand our consciousness and connect us with healing qualities of strength, compassion and vision. Foreword Review Book of the Year 2013 Finalist — Mind/Body/Spirit USA Best Book Awards 2014 Winner — Philosophy Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2015 Winner — New Age This book leads us to this growing edge of the psyche and invites our curiosity and caring. It charts a course of radical acceptance of experience — no matter how painful or difficult — as absolutely necessary for our well-being and the well-being of the planet. Sandra Dennis brings a spiritual context to what most disturbs us. She offers a simple method to navigate these alarming images and anxieties. Instead of treating them as perversions to banish, we are encouraged to embrace their primal power becoming more intelligent, loving and whole in the process. "Embrace of the Daimon" can help: · Calm your concerns by understanding the role of these daimonic images in the larger context of growth to wholeness, or individuation. · Find the courage to explore these states of mind with more intimate, compassionate interest. · Learn to navigate your way through the unusual sensations that often accompany breakthroughs of the daimonic. · Expand your understanding of Jungian theory, with regard to the little explored mind/body connection role in personal development. "Embrace of the Daimon" offers a rare look at this inner landscape and will help make your own trip, or that of those you are helping, less harrowing. Reviewers have called 'Embrace of the Daimon' -- "a pioneering work, a courageous and important book," "a significant contribution to the study of altered states of consciousness," "original and profound," "a rare documentation of unconscious processes","a work that advances our understanding of a descending spirituality tremendously," "eloquently descriptive," "deeply moving," re-imagines the work of integrating shadow to find beauty and dignity," "bridges the worlds of the scholar and the visionary" and "takes us to the radical edge of Jungian psychology today." One reader commented, "It is the only contemporary firsthand account of the day-to-day practice of mystical depth psychology that I have come across. I find it a very practical guide to my own inner and psychic realm journeys." Another called it "the most honest work on the psychoid/imaginal realms since Corbin...the engagement with the archetypal invasions, more like Jung in the Red Book than the scholarly Corbin."

Présentation de l'éditeur

Have you wrestled with uncanny, nightmarish imagery in dreams or waking? Life crises, trauma, deep meditation, prayer or inquiry can unleash surprisingly compelling yet scary, even revolting, imagery and related feelings. With few maps to help navigate this terrain, we are tempted to deny or repress our experience. Precipitated by a descent into the dark recesses of her own psyche, in this award-winning book, Sandra Dennis explores the eruption of strange, wild, compelling characters from the unconscious that she calls ‘daimons.’ The Greeks understood the daimon as the intermediary between gods and humans, the guardian spirit assigned at birth that connects heaven and earth. These messengers come as agents of inner transformation. When we welcome them with understanding and compassion, they expand our consciousness and connect us with healing qualities of strength, compassion and vision. Foreword Review Book of the Year 2013 Finalist — Mind/Body/Spirit USA Best Book Awards 2014 Winner — Philosophy Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2015 Winner — New Age This book leads us to this growing edge of the psyche and invites our curiosity and caring. It charts a course of radical acceptance of experience — no matter how painful or difficult — as absolutely necessary for our well-being and the well-being of the planet. Sandra Dennis brings a spiritual context to what most disturbs us. She offers a simple method to navigate these alarming images and anxieties. Instead of treating them as perversions to banish, we are encouraged to embrace their primal power becoming more intelligent, loving and whole in the process. "Embrace of the Daimon" can help: • Calm your concerns by understanding the role of these daimonic images in the larger context of growth to wholeness, or individuation. • Find the courage to explore these states of mind with more intimate, compassionate interest. • Learn to navigate your way through the unusual sensations that often accompany breakthroughs of the daimonic. • Expand your understanding of Jungian theory, with regard to the little explored mind/body connection role in personal development. "Embrace of the Daimon" offers a rare look at this inner landscape and will help make your own trip, or that of those you are helping, less harrowing. Reviewers have called 'Embrace of the Daimon' -- "a pioneering work, a courageous and important book," "a significant contribution to the study of altered states of consciousness," "original and profound," "a rare documentation of unconscious processes","a work that advances our understanding of a descending spirituality tremendously," "eloquently descriptive," "deeply moving," re-imagines the work of integrating shadow to find beauty and dignity," "bridges the worlds of the scholar and the visionary" and "takes us to the radical edge of Jungian psychology today." One reader commented, "It is the only contemporary firsthand account of the day-to-day practice of mystical depth psychology that I have come across. I find it a very practical guide to my own inner and psychic realm journeys." Another called it "the most honest work on the psychoid/imaginal realms since Corbin...the engagement with the archetypal invasions, more like Jung in the Red Book than the scholarly Corbin."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0892540567
• ISBN 13: 9780892540563
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible