Connie Zweig

Jeremiah Abrams

The author offers exploration of self and practical guidance dealing with the dark side of personality based on Jung's concept of "shadow," or the forbidden and unacceptable feelings and behaviors each of us experience.

The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

Meeting the Shadow

Steve Wolf

In a study of the dark side of the human soul, two psychotherapists draw on Jungian psychology to explain how to work with this darkness to revitalize one's life

A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Romancing the Shadow

• Offers shadow-work and many diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, and allow mortality to be a teacher • Reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life • Includes personal interviews with prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Fr. Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof With extended longevity comes the opportunity for extended personal growth and spiritual development. You now have the chance to become an Elder, to leave behind past roles, shift from work in the outer world to inner work with the soul, and become authentically who you are. This book is a guide to help get past the inner obstacles and embrace the hidden spiritual gifts of age. Offering a radical reimagining of age for all generations, psychotherapist and bestselling author Connie Zweig reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life, attune to your soul’s longing, and emerge renewed as an Elder filled with vitality and purpose. She explores the obstacles encountered in the transition to wise Elder and offers psychological shadow-work and diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, reclaim your creativity, and allow mortality to be a teacher. Sharing contemplative practices for self-reflection, she also reveals how to discover ways to share your talents and wisdom to become a force for change in the lives of others. Woven throughout with wisdom from prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Father Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof, this book offers tools and guidance to help you let go of past roles, expand your identity, deepen self-knowledge, and move through these life passages to a new stage of awareness, choosing to be fully real, transparent, and free to embrace a fulfilling late life.

Shifting from Role to Soul

The Inner Work of Age

In this colleciton of essays psychologists, Jungian analysts, feminists, and scholars of Goddess cultures describe those key insights and experiences that can provide entry to a new level of consciousness.

The Birth of the Conscious Feminine

To be a Woman

Cada uno de nosotros lleva consigo un Dr. Jekyll y un Mr. Hyde, una persona afable y una entidad tenebrosa. Bajo la máscara del Yo consciente se ocultan todo tipo de emociones y conductas negativas: rabia, celos, resentimiento, codicia, lujuria, mentira, tendencias asesinas y suicidas... Este territorio inexplorado de nosotros mismos es conocido en psicología como la sombra personal. Todo el mundo tiene una sombra, contrapartida de su ego. Una sombra que comienza ya a desarrollarse en la infancia, a través de la educación, cuando negamos la parte oscura de nosotros mismos y fingimos identificarnos con nuestros ideales; una sombra que permanece siempre al acecho y que emerge con fuerza en cualquier momento. Así, por ejemplo, cuando sentimos un inexplicable sentimiento de antipatía hacia alguien, o cuando descubrimos un rasgo inaceptable en nosotros mismos, o cuando repentinamente nos invade el odio, la envidia, la vergüenza. Encontrar la propia sombra, enfrentarse con ella, aprovechar su poderosa energía, todo ello pertenece a la autorrealización más profunda del ser humano. Ya dijo Jung que uno no alcanza la iluminación fantaseando sobre la luz sino haciendo consciente la oscuridad. Encuentro con la sombra ofrece una visión panorámica del lado oscuro de la naturaleza humana, tal y como surge de las relaciones, en el trabajo, en la familia, en la sexualidad, en la política, en la terapia, en el crecimiento personal... Encuentro con la sombra nos enseña a alcanzar una genuina auto-aceptación, a aprovechar las emociones negativas, a superar la culpa, a reconocer nuestras "proyecciones", a usar diversas actividades -tales como la escritura, el dibujo, los sueños- para recuperar la parte rechazada de nosotros mismos. Porque en la oscuridad de la sombra está también nuestra plenitud.

El poder del lado oscuro de la naturaleza humana

Encuentro con la sombra

• Offers shadow-work and many diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, and allow mortality to be a teacher • Reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life • Includes personal interviews with prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Fr. Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof With extended longevity comes the opportunity for extended personal growth and spiritual development. You now have the chance to become an Elder, to leave behind past roles, shift from work in the outer world to inner work with the soul, and become authentically who you are. This book is a guide to help get past the inner obstacles and embrace the hidden spiritual gifts of age. Offering a radical reimagining of age for all generations, psychotherapist and bestselling author Connie Zweig reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life, attune to your soul’s longing, and emerge renewed as an Elder filled with vitality and purpose. She explores the obstacles encountered in the transition to wise Elder and offers psychological shadow-work and diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, reclaim your creativity, and allow mortality to be a teacher. Sharing contemplative practices for selfreflection, she also reveals how to discover ways to share your talents and wisdom to become a force for change in the lives of others. Woven throughout with wisdom from prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Father Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof, this book offers tools and guidance to help you let go of past roles, expand your identity, deepen self-knowledge, and move through these life passages to a new stage of awareness, choosing to be fully real, transparent, and free to embrace a fulfilling late life.

In every tradition, saints and poets speak of the soul's search for the Beloved, the seeker's yearning for the divine. This holy longing is a secret feeling with many disguises, leading us to pursue a higher union in spiritual practice, religious discipleship, even romantic embrace. It guides us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences. But it also can go awry if we misplace it onto food, alcohol, drugs, or sex. Or if we project it onto an authoritarian teacher, priest, guru, or roshi who abuses power. Thereby, we encounter darkness on the path. Many renowned teachers, past and present, have labored under these projections--and acted out their shadows in destructive ways, leaving their followers traumatized and lost. Whether the abuse is sexual, financial, or emotional coercion, we feel the shock of betrayal, our innocence is lost, and our faith is shaken. The resulting spiritual disillusionment, Dr. Zweig suggests, does not take us off the path, but is a crucial part of the spiritual journey and can lead us through the narrow gate back toward the light.

The Hidden Power of Darkness on the Path

Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality

Abrams Jeremiah

Sentimentos e comportamentos proibidos surgem da parte mais escura – e reprimida – dentro de nós, nossa sombra pessoal. Ao Encontro da Sombra é uma coletânea de 65 artigos que oferecem um vasto panorama sobre o lado escuro da natureza humana, tal como este se manifesta no seio da família, nos relacionamentos íntimos, na sexualidade, no trabalho, na espiritualidade, na política, na psicoterapia e na criatividade das pessoas. Embora sejamos levados a pensar que a sombra contenha apenas escuridão, reconhecer em nós, e nos outros, esse aspecto tão negado da natureza humana é de extrema importância para nosso pleno desenvolvimento como indivíduos sadios e conectados com o Self. O livro reúne ferramentas práticas para esse desenvolvimento pessoal

Um estudo sobre o potencial oculto do lado escuro da natureza humana

Ao encontro da sombra

In the first historical novel about the bestselling Sufi poet Jelaluddin Rumi--based on original sources in Farsi and English--readers discover the key moments that shaped his poetic genius.

The Moth to the Flame

A guide to rekindling spiritual inspiration after betrayal and disillusionment • Explains why we are drawn to charismatic leaders, what we unconsciously give away to them, and how to reclaim our inner spiritual authority • Explores how to recover from spiritual abuse or betrayal by a teacher or group, including breaking free of denial, projection, and dependency using psychology and shadow-work • Extends #MeToo into the spiritual domain and tells the stories of contemporary clergy and spiritual leaders who acted out their shadows in destructive ways, leaving their followers traumatized and lost Within each of us is a spiritual longing that prompts us to unite with something greater than ourselves, to awaken to our unity with all of life. Yet, no matter the spiritual path we choose, we inevitably encounter our own shadow, those unconscious aspects of ourselves that we suppress or deny, or the shadows of our teachers and their secret desires about money, sex, and power. Meeting the shadow can derail the journey, but, according to Connie Zweig, Ph.D., we can learn to recover from loss of faith and move from spiritual naivete to spiritual maturity. Calling on us to expand our vision of religious and spiritual life—and our vision of awakening—to include the human shadow, Zweig examines the yearning that sets us on the spiritual path, showing how it can lead to ecstatic, transcendent experiences or to terrible suffering by projecting it onto an authoritarian teacher, priest, or guru who abuses power. She tells the stories of renowned teachers—Sufi poet Rumi, Hindu master Ramakrishna, and Christian saint Catherine of Siena—whose lives unfolded as they followed their spiritual yearning. And she tells the cautionary tales of contemporary teachers of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Catholicism, who acted out their shadows in devastating ways, leaving their followers traumatized and lost. She explains how meeting the shadow is a painful but inevitable stage on the path to a more mature spirituality. She describes how to use spiritual shadow-work to separate from abusive teachers, reclaim inner spiritual authority, and heal from betrayal. With guidance for both inspired and disillusioned seekers, the author explores how to navigate the narrow path through the darkness toward the light, rekindle the flame of longing, and once again engage in fulfilling spiritual practice.

The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening

Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path

The Hidden Power of Spiritual Yearning

The Holy Longing

The Life of the Sufi Poet Rumi

A Moth to the Flame

Illuminating the Dark Side of the Soul

"Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure."-RumiIn every tradition, saints and poets speak of the soul's search for the beloved, the seeker's yearning for the divine. This holy longing, a secret feeling with many disguises, leads us to pursue religious discipleship, spiritual practice, romantic union, or an ideal community. It guides us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experience.But it also can go awry, when we misplace it onto objects, such as food, alcohol, drugs, or sex, believing that they will satisfy our craving. Or when we misplace it onto an authoritarian personality, believing that he or she will meet our unmet needs. If this teacher or priest abuses power, we encounter the shadow side of spiritual life. Whether the abuse is sexual, financial, or emotional coercion, we may feel forsaken and lose faith, even in God.The Holy Longing tells the stories of teachers in many traditions-Sufi poet Rumi, Hindu master Ramakrishna, Christian saint Catherine of Siena-whose lives unfolded as they followed their longing. And it tells the tales of many ordinary people-Catholic believers, students of Zen and TM, followers of Trungpa Rinpoche and Rajneesh-and their encounters with spiritual shadow. Finally, it offers wise counsel for rekindling the flame of faith-moving through the shadow to the light-by reclaiming sacred parts of the self that were lost along the way.

Spiritual Yearning and Its Shadow Side

Steven Wolf

Beneath the social mask we wear every day, we have a hidden shadow side: an impulsive, wounded, sad, or isolated part that we generally try to ignore, but which can erupt in hurtful ways. As therapists Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf show in this landmark book, the shadow can actually be a source of emotional richness and vitality, and acknowledging it can be a pathway to healing and an authentic life. "Romancing the shadow"--meeting your dark side, beginning to understand its unconscious messages, and learning to use its powerful energies in productive ways--is the challenging and exciting soul work that Zweig and Wolf offer in this practical, rewarding guide. Drawing on the timeless teachings of Carl Jung and compelling stories from their clinical practices, Zweig and Wolf reveal how the shadow guides your choices in love, sex, marriage, friendship, work, and family life. With their innovative method, you can uncover the unique patterns and purpose of your shadow and learn to defuse negative emotions; reclaim forbidden or lost feelings; achieve greater self-acceptance; heal betrayal; reimagine and re-create relationships; cultivate compassion for others; renew creative expressions; and find purpose in your suffering. The shadow knows why good people sometimes do bad things. Romancing the shadow and learning to read the messages it encodes in daily life can deepen your consciousness, imagination, and soul.

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