From Warrior to Sage: A Guide for Moving Beyond the Ego - Couverture rigide

Calhoun, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1434360857 ISBN 13 : 9781434360854

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2008

Synopsis

We each have to learn the lessons of the elders, and usually we do so the hard way; by having to go through the same phases of life that others who came before and tried to warn us about life. As a young, assistant professor I assumed I knew it all. I was going to work hard, do a lot of research, publish well, and meet my responsibilities as a teacher. Some where along this path I realized I was incomplete. I needed something more that the scientific method to guide my life. By now I was a father and deeply involved in my career. I did accept the Headship as I knew I could do it, and I knew it had to be done. Yet, the job is very hard, and is filled with lots of inter-personal conflicts with staff and faculty. I was glad to shed that role while I was young enough to have time to do some deep explorations of my life. I believe my first step in this direction began with a newly formed Unitarian Church in West Knoxville and with our minister, Dillman Sorrells. I next credit Carol Pearson for opening up an entire new area to me. I got her first book, contacted her, and joined her seminar titled Journey Guides. I was introduced to Carl Jung anew and in a form I had not encountered in my earlier studies. Pearson's use of archetypes was fascinating to me and I began to see how they worked in my life. By now I had begun to move out of the ego stage into the inter-mediate stage of the soul that later leads us to be archetype of the sage. I believe that my teaching improved in the latter years of my career, and I feel that I learned a great deal from my students. One of the first lessons I learned was to allow my intuition to work for me. My personality tends toward the sensing and thinking type, rather than the intuitive and feeling type. But, I learned how to work against my type. About this time I first learned of the Meyers-Briggs Type Test at a leadership school run for Unitarians. Things seemed to be coming together for me. Then I chanced upon the work by Carol Gilligan, Anne Schaef, and James Hillman. I began to get the idea for this book. I began my thinking about the women's movement and what appeared to be a counter movement by men but abandoned that approach as the men's movement lost its way. By now I was moving into the role of the magician who could offer by example things in a way that students could use them in the daily life. As I write in Chapter 5, I asked my students to write a brief reaction to the course, and I got so much pleasure from the comments made by my students. By now I was not teaching only facts, and was not evaluating the students in the traditional way. I often think about all the stuff I learned in graduate school that I never had reason to use in my later life. Just as it was in preflight training, we had to learn how to navigate by the stars, sun, and moon. We never did that later as we navigated by electronic instruments. It is rather like a psychiatrist having to learn all the bones of the human foot, to be able to earn the M. D. and enter a residency in psychiatry. But, that is the way it works. I think of my book as a road map for persons who are interested in reaching the level of the sage and magician. Not all will do that, and many will not even understand what it is about. But for the sage, that does not matter. If only a few can profit from my work, I have fulfilled my calling.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Sometime in 1975 Bill Calhoun had a mystical experience, which redirected his life, as he moved into the phase that Jung called the afternoon. Bill started life on a ranch in Sonoma County in northern California in 1932. He was the last child born to a family of three children, grew up doing chores around the place and attended Healdsburg High School. After graduating from high school, he attended Santa Rosa Junior College, where he graduated with the AA degree in 1952 and then entered the U. S. Naval Aviation Cadet Program at Pensacola, Florida. He completed flight training in March of 1954 and was assigned to VC-3 at Moffett Field Naval Air Station. He later transferred to VF-194, a squadron part of Carrier Air Group Nine. He deployed to the Pacific area in early 1956 aboard the USS Oriskany, CVA 34, returning to the States in August. Somehow he made time to marry Lois Ann Heikens, be discharged from the Navy, and enter Stanford University to complete the BA degree. He and Lois moved up the bay to Richmond, where he began graduate studies in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Two sons were born during this period, and he received the Ph. D. degree in June 1964. Thereupon, the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he took a position as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus. He conducted research and taught many courses in psychology. He also served a stint from 1974 to 1985 as Department chair. It was during the stint as head that he had his mystical experience, leading him along the path of the teacher. Upon leaving the headship, he had time to read widely and try out alternative views about the world. During the last several years, he has delved into the area linking psychology to spirituality and religion. This book, From the Warrior to the Sage, is a culmination of years of study. In many ways, Bill Calhoun has traced his personal journey writing the pages of this book.Bill is now retired from the unive

Présentation de l'éditeur

We each have to learn the lessons of the elders, and usually we do so the hard way; by having to go through the same phases of life that others who came before and tried to warn us about life. As a young, assistant professor I assumed I knew it all. I was going to work hard, do a lot of research, publish well, and meet my responsibilities as a teacher. Some where along this path I realized I was incomplete. I needed something more that the scientific method to guide my life. By now I was a father and deeply involved in my career. I did accept the Headship as I knew I could do it, and I knew it had to be done. Yet, the job is very hard, and is filled with lots of inter-personal conflicts with staff and faculty. I was glad to shed that role while I was young enough to have time to do some deep explorations of my life. I believe my first step in this direction began with a newly formed Unitarian Church in West Knoxville and with our minister, Dillman Sorrells. I next credit Carol Pearson for opening up an entire new area to me. I got her first book, contacted her, and joined her seminar titled Journey Guides. I was introduced to Carl Jung anew and in a form I had not encountered in my earlier studies. Pearson?s use of archetypes was fascinating to me and I began to see how they worked in my life. By now I had begun to move out of the ego stage into the inter-mediate stage of the soul that later leads us to be archetype of the sage. I believe that my teaching improved in the latter years of my career, and I feel that I learned a great deal from my students. One of the first lessons I learned was to allow my intuition to work for me. My personality tends toward the sensing and thinking type, rather than the intuitive and feeling type. But, I learned how to work against my type. About this time I first learned of the Meyers-Briggs Type Test at a leadership school run for Unitarians. Things seemed to be coming together for me. Then I chanced upon the work by Ca

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434360857
• ISBN 13: 9781434360854
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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