Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World write by Michael Washburn. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human spirituality will find something of value in Michael Washburn's new book. Drawing on a rich variety of psychoanalytic, Jungian, and existential-phenomenological sources and on both Western and Asian spiritual texts, Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World provides a theoretical foundation for the idea that human development follows a spiral path. Washburn shows that ego development early in life requires us to turn our backs on original sources of our existence and, therefore, that spiritual development later in life requires us to spiral back to these sources on the way to whole-psyche integration. He elucidates the underlying causes and pivotal events that set development on its spiral course and traces six major dimensions of experience as they unfold along the spiral path: the unconscious, the energy system, the ego system, the perceived other, the experiential body, and the life-world. In providing a theoretical foundation for the idea of the spiral path, Washburn defends the idea against its critics and helps explain why the idea has been compelling to so many people in diverse traditions.
Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective
Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective write by Michael Washburn. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles to ego transcendence. Spiritual development, he proposes, can be properly understood only in terms of the ego development that precedes it. For example, many difficulties encountered in spiritual development can be traced to repressive underpinnings of ego development, and significant gender differences in spiritual development can be traced to corresponding gender differences that emerge during ego development. Washburn draws on a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives in discussing ego development and uses both Eastern and Western sources in discussing spiritual development. In rethinking transpersonal psychology in psychoanalytic terms, he explains how essential elements of Jungian thought can be grounded in psychoanalytic theory.
The Ego and the Dynamic Ground
The Ego and the Dynamic Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ego and the Dynamic Ground write by Michael Washburn. This book was released on 1988-01-01. The Ego and the Dynamic Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a transpersonal theory of human development. Using a broad range of both Western and Eastern sources, Washburn answers the challenge of Carl Jung. He shows how modern humans can integrate themselves and attain self-realization rather than self-destruction.
Sacred Pauses
Sacred Pauses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Pauses write by April Yamasaki. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Sacred Pauses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a fast-paced world full of distractions, spiritual practice can help us become more centered-more in touch with ourselves and others, more in touch with the world around us, more in touch with God. Sacred Pauses is an introduction to this more centered way of life. The author, a pastor in British Columbia, begins with her own longing for personal renewal. What would it take to feel renewed every day? Instead of waiting for a vacation to smooth out the tensions of life, instead of waiting until the end of the week to shed our weariness, what if we could take time out every day? Live a renewed life every day? Be refreshed by God every day? Sacred Pauses offers simple ways for readers to do just that. Each chapter explores a different spiritual practice-from the classic disciplines of Scripture reading and prayer to other creative approaches such as paying attention, making music, and having fun. With plenty of stories from real life and ideas to try, this book is personal and practical. Its flexible format is appropriate for personal use or in a group, every day or any time. Free downloadable study guide available here.
God in Your Body
God in Your Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God in Your Body write by Jay Michaelson. This book was released on 2007. God in Your Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet. The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself. This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual practice and an essential guide to the sacred. With meditation practices, physical exercises, visualizations and sacred text, you will learn how to experience the presence of the Divine in, and through, your body. And by cultivating an embodied spiritual practice, you will transform everyday activities--eating, walking, breathing, washing--into moments of deep spiritual realization, uniting sacred and sensual, mystical and mundane.
