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Linda Litteral is a survivor of incest and rape who used art to heal from the destruction to the body and spirit which comes from physical and sexual abuse. In this courageous memoir, Litteral shares the story of her abuse, spanning eight years of incest perpetrated by her grandfather, a rape she experienced in high school, and physical and verbal violence she suffered at the hands of her first husband. She offers an in-depth psychological profile of the effects of abuse, including silence, shame, invisibility, powerlessness, guilt, and difficulties with trust and identity. She also illustrates how the body remembers abuse through symptomatology like dissociation, anxiety, chronic illness, and other post-traumatic stress responses.
Yet Litteral has done more than survive her past—she’s found a way to thrive in the present. She generously catalogs all the healing modalities she has experienced in her decades of undoing the destruction of her past, including talk therapy, meditation, yoga, breathwork, Tai Chi, and somatic-based therapies like acupuncture, EMDR, sacral cranial therapy, and Thought Field Therapy. But it’s when Litteral discovers the power of creating and sharing her art that her healing journey begins in earnest. Accompanied by rich full-color images of her art in every chapter, Litteral shares stories about the creation of her pieces, their stunning symbology, and how they aided in her healing journey. Litteral is both an artist and an activist, a fierce champion for survivors, and an unabashed advocate for the healing power of art.
Yet Litteral has done more than survive her past—she’s found a way to thrive in the present. She generously catalogs all the healing modalities she has experienced in her decades of undoing the destruction of her past, including talk therapy, meditation, yoga, breathwork, Tai Chi, and somatic-based therapies like acupuncture, EMDR, sacral cranial therapy, and Thought Field Therapy. But it’s when Litteral discovers the power of creating and sharing her art that her healing journey begins in earnest. Accompanied by rich full-color images of her art in every chapter, Litteral shares stories about the creation of her pieces, their stunning symbology, and how they aided in her healing journey. Litteral is both an artist and an activist, a fierce champion for survivors, and an unabashed advocate for the healing power of art.
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“Call the world if you please ‘the Vale of Soul-making.’
Then you will find out the use of the world.” ~ John Keats Keats’ well-known quote continues, “There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions—but they are not Souls till they acquire identities, till each one is personally itself.” He states that, “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” He goes on to question, “How then are Souls to be made?” to which he answers, “How, but by the medium of a world like this?” This story is about the journey of the soul and its experience in becoming itself and fulfilling its life’s purpose in the school-room of this world, the Vale of Soul-Making. |
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The Embodied Imagination® method is a modern-day adaptation of dream work practices of the Asklepian healing sanctuaries in ancient Greece. The method draws from a broad set of disciplines that include alchemy, ancient incubation practices, active imagination as developed by C. G. Jung, different acting techniques, phenomenology, complexity theory, neuroscience, and depth psychology. The EI® method, developed by the Jungian therapist and well-known author, Robert Bosnak, has roots in the work of ancient alchemists and well-known pioneers of depth psychology C. G. Jung and James Hillman, philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Henry Corbin, and others.
This training manual is intended for students in a basic Embodied Imagination®—Getting the Courage to Change training program. |
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Begin With a Box: Building a Hands-On Resource for Teaching and Learning provides community and classroom educators with a comprehensive step-by-step guide for building a valuable curriculum resource developed by master teacher Carol Cohen called a Teaching Box.
Begin With a Box goes beyond the worksheet to provide educators with ideas for creative curriculum planning across grades and subject areas. In the book, Cohen focuses on holistic and interdisciplinary hands-on learning including major subject areas like English language arts, social studies, history, math, and the arts. In engaging prose, Cohen explores educational theory as well, providing a pedagogically sound resource for partnering theory and practice. Throughout the chapters, Cohen offers real-life examples and photographs of Teaching Boxes creatively built and delivered by over a thousand students spanning two decades of her career. |
In the 1950s, Peggy Cook came into the world with bilateral clubfeet, feet that are twisted and facing each other, necessitating that a person walk on the sides of the feet or on tiptoe. In addition, the heel chords are short, and tight which also affects balance and gait. Surgery was available in her childhood to correct the deformity and potential disability. But Peggy also came into the world with a family who practiced Christian Science, and a father who worked for The Mother Church his whole career. The family focused on spiritual healing and prayer in lieu of medical interventions. As a child, Peggy blamed herself for not being able to pray well enough for her condition to be healed. She experienced the shame that comes with feeling not faithful enough or spiritual enough to see that clubfeet are “unreal,” the church’s word for deformity or sickness of any kind. Walking became increasingly painful, without the needed surgery or any pain relief.
As she matured, she began to question her family’s unswerving faith as her mother struggled with skin cancer, relying on Christian Science “treatment,” by Christian Science practitioners. Prayer was the Christian Science treatment. Her mother was never healed, living a life in pain, and dying a torturous death.
Peggy began her journey of transformation, releasing her trust in spiritual healing and replacing it with her decision to rely on medical science. In her late thirties she had surgery to correct her clubfeet.
This memoir chronicles her journey from indoctrination to individuation and offers hope that it’s never too late to rebuild a life and experience joy and freedom in a way that acknowledges one’s agency.
As she matured, she began to question her family’s unswerving faith as her mother struggled with skin cancer, relying on Christian Science “treatment,” by Christian Science practitioners. Prayer was the Christian Science treatment. Her mother was never healed, living a life in pain, and dying a torturous death.
Peggy began her journey of transformation, releasing her trust in spiritual healing and replacing it with her decision to rely on medical science. In her late thirties she had surgery to correct her clubfeet.
This memoir chronicles her journey from indoctrination to individuation and offers hope that it’s never too late to rebuild a life and experience joy and freedom in a way that acknowledges one’s agency.
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The Allen Method is a four-step approach to creating and sustaining loving and lasting relationships. With over fifty years of personal growth and development training, the Allens have worked their relationship alchemy with over a thousand clients, both singles and couples, leading to a 50% increase in marriages and committed relationships, a 98% decrease in relationship failures, less suffering with incompatible partnerships, and an increase in their single clients’ awareness in selecting compatible personality types. In this book you’ll learn • The three crucial Cs of couplehood • The importance of co-creating a spiritual partnership • The value of using the Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator© to understand each other’s personality preferences • The necessity of bringing mindfulness to conscious coupling |
The Red Sulphur Series by Robert Bosnak
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This Saga is based on verified historical reports by credible witnesses of the transmutation from lead into gold with the use of Red Sulphur in 1666. BOOK I and II An alchemist family in possession of the last Red Sulphur in existence is pursued by Kings and phantoms alike. Their remarkable love story and survival against all odds are chronicled here for the first time. |
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BOOK III After the birth of the Red Sulphur Twins, the forces of the Subtle Realm conjure a whirlwind of destruction. The Sun King and Prince William of Orange battle over the future of Europe, shaping the fate of modernity. In their laboratory our family of alchemists closes in on the ultimate source of the magical Red Sulphur while struggling with unbearable jealousies. |
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BOOK IV
The struggle for the destiny of Europe and the future of science culminates in the invasion of England by Prince William of Orange. Mundanus is captured by the Subtle Realm and the Dolfin family is confronted with the conundrum of immortality. The romantic triangle reaches its fever pitch and must transform or perish. A fierce battle ensues between the power-craving demon Green Mantis and the Red Sulphur Twins that will determine the fate of eternity itself. Book IV concludes with the following addenda: Historical Foundations of Red Sulphur, Historical Personages Glossary, Glossary of Alchemical Terms and Mythological References, and Acknowledgments. |
The Scrapbooks of the Soul Series by Marilyn Hammond
Scrapbooks of the Soul is a series of four novels asking big questions about being alive. The stories are about hermeneutic habits, our habits of interpretation. These novels tell how we humans interpret ourselves, others, and all of life.
The word hermeneutic is from the name Hermes in Greek mythology. Hermes had the complex task of delivering the messages of the gods to mortals, which meant he first had to interpret for himself what the gods were saying, and then translate the message in such a way that mortals could understand.
The four novels show that humans have the same complex task as Hermes. We are hermeneuts whether or not we want to be, for in the ordinariness of life, we always and everywhere infer, deduce, discern, and decide, what our experiences “mean” or if they mean nothing, which is itself an interpretation.
Our interpretations form who we are, and vice versa, who we are greatly influences our interpretations. What we see is largely part of how we see. Indeed, life is a scrapbook of our interpretations and the interpretations of others which affect us.
The word hermeneutic is from the name Hermes in Greek mythology. Hermes had the complex task of delivering the messages of the gods to mortals, which meant he first had to interpret for himself what the gods were saying, and then translate the message in such a way that mortals could understand.
The four novels show that humans have the same complex task as Hermes. We are hermeneuts whether or not we want to be, for in the ordinariness of life, we always and everywhere infer, deduce, discern, and decide, what our experiences “mean” or if they mean nothing, which is itself an interpretation.
Our interpretations form who we are, and vice versa, who we are greatly influences our interpretations. What we see is largely part of how we see. Indeed, life is a scrapbook of our interpretations and the interpretations of others which affect us.
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BOOK 1 Deep Hints and Clues is the story of four mature female friends who uncover an old way of understanding, which the friends adapt for use today. On the front of this book is a circle design that reflects what the friends find. In the circle are four outer circles which mirror an abandoned method of religious interpretation in Western culture. The friends learn why and how the interpretive framework came to be discarded, and the consequences of its death in today’s world. Overall, the circle design suggests the human longing to understand profoundly, which is the crux of the novel. |
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BOOK 2 A confused woman with the help of a friend and mentor is able to penetrate truths of her own being. On the front of this book is a mandala that reflects her psychological journey. Overall, the design embodies radiance, an emerging light of understanding out of her inmost depths and much yearned for enlightenment, which radically, explosively, changes her life. What Might We Know is a story of personal revelation and transformation. |
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BOOK 3 In this novel, Christian parables are interpreted in a fourfold way to remedy a comment made by a now-deceased aunt. The front cover design of this book reflects the loving gesture to the aunt. In the design, vibrant, delicate blue light suggests enlightenment emerging in the midst of black, widespread shadow, indicating a psychological state of “being in the dark,” unaware, not knowing, without understanding. |
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BOOK 4 In this final novel of the series, there is surprising marriage, unexpected death, a friend moves back to town, a sublime evening ends with talk of four personalities bringing insight into today's world. The front cover design reflects life's opposites, imbalances and imperfection, while at the center is indefinable soul seeking understanding. |
