128. ACROBATS OF THE GODS: Dance and Transformation
Joan Dexter Blackmer
ISBN 9780919123380. 40 Illustrations. Index. 128 pp. 2009. $25.00
New Printing
Relating the rigors of dance to the travails of the alchemical opus, the author, herself a former Martha Graham dancer, allows us to experience the process that for many gives birth to an enhanced awareness of the Self. A timely reminder of the interaction between body and soul.
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127.VALLEY OF DIAMONDS: Adventures in Number and Time with Marie-Louise von Franz
J. Gary Sparks
ISBN 9781894574280. Index 192 pp. 2010. $30.00
During a serious illness in his sixties, C. G. Jung dreamed that he was in a valley of diamonds and could fill his pockets with them. He understood the diamonds to refer to all he had yet to say about the human psyche. But he realized that he could only show a fraction of what he had in his pockets. He lived on to write his major works, but one "diamond" left virtually untouched was the relationship between inner and outer, the mysterious interface between mind and matter. He believed the key to this conundrum lay in investigating the concept of numbers as archetypes of the unconscious, but he lacked the energy for it.
This was the great task Jung bequeathed to his long-standing colleague, Marie-Louise von Franz, who heartily took it on in her prodigious tome, Number and Time (1974), which thoughtfully explores the space-time continuum, the psychological significance of the first four integers, 1-4, and parallel developments in the world of physics. Her enquiry is a difficult book, but seminal in laying the groundwork for a new worldview based on numbers as they manifest in dreams, everyday life, science and synchronistic events.
J. Gary Sparks' masterful explication of Number and Time clarifies von Franz’s work and makes more accessible to all readers one of the proudly-faceted jewels Jung left as his legacy to genuine healing.
Valley of Diamonds is a fitting sequel to this author’s previous book, At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament (Inner City Books, 2007). J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; and the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science of the Soul (Inner City Books, 2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (Inner City Books, 2000).
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126. JUNG UNCORKED: Rare Vintages from the Cellar of Analytical Psychology-Book Four
Daryl Sharp
ISBN 9781894574273. 160 pages. Sewn. Index. 2009 $25
This volume concludes the author’s adventurous Uncorked series (see titles 120, 121, 123) explicating various essays in C. G. Jung’s Collected Works. Each chapter presents spirited passages from an essay in one volume of Jung’s CW, with experiential commentaries on their psychological and contemporary relevance.
Contents:
9ii The Shadow
10 The Undiscovered Self
11 Yoga and the West 39
12 Religious Ideas in Alchemy 48
13 The Philosophical Tree 55
14 The Components of the Coniunctio 62
15 In Memory of Sigmund Freud 75
16 Principles of Practical Psychotherapy 87
17 The Development of Personality 108
18 Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams 115
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125.AN AMERICAN JUNGIAN: In Honor of Edward F. Edinger
(Ed. George R. Elder and Dianne D. Cordic). Illustrated.
ISBN 9781894574266. 288 pages. Sewn. Index. 2009 $35
This extraordinary compilation brings together essays and reviews by Dr. Edinger together with appreciations by others of his work and interviews with him. None of it has previously been published in book form.
Edward F. Edinger was such a significant presence in the worldwide Jungian community that this volume can only begin to assess his greatness as an interpreter of Jung’s work and his dedication to the significance of Analytical psychology—but it well illustrates his worth.
Contents include:
- Bibliography of Edinger books and electronic media
- An American Jungian: Transcript of the acclaimed video, "A Conversation with Edinger," by Lawrence W. Jaffe
- A Guide to the Writings of Edward F. Edinger, by Robin Robertson
- Edinger Essays and Reviews:
- An Outline of Analytical Psychology
- Paracelsus and the Age of Aquarius
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Naturalist of the Soul
- Individuation: A Myth for Modern Man
- The Question of a Jungian Community
- Archetypal Patterns in Schizophrenia
Tributes to M. Esther Harding, Eleanor Bertine, Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz
- The Psyche and Global Unrest
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