Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork & Jungian Psychology

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The Golden Sufi Center, 1998 M07 10 - 330 páginas

Spiritual life is a process of inner transformation in which the whole psychic structure of the seeker is changed. Exploring the threshold between spirituality and psychology, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee shows how dreamwork guides us on this inner journey and helps us to understand the different stages of the path.

From the transformative darkness of the shadow he takes us into the love affair with our inner partner, and from there into the archetypal realm and the symbolic dimension of the Self. He explores the psychological dynamics of the relationship with the teacher, so often misunderstood in the West, and then describes what is hardly mentioned in the great spiritual literature of the world: how the soul of the disciple merges with the soul of the teacher.

Catching the Thread is a pioneering work, integrating the traditional wisdom of the Sufis with the insights of modern psychology—a valuable guide for any spiritual student. Catching the Thread is a re-edited version of The Call and the Echo, combined with some of the most important material from the author's first book, The Lover & the Serpent.

“Blending together the subjects of psychology and spirituality, Vaughan-Lee's gentle wisdom reveals the magic of transformation, the ancient process through which we discover the pure gold of our real nature.” —Robert Johnson, author, Balancing Heaven & Earth

 

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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D., was born in London in 1953 and has followed the Sufi path since he was nineteen. In 1991 he moved with his family to Northern California and founded The Golden Sufi Center (www.goldensufi.org). Author of several books, he has specialized in the area of dreamwork, integrating the ancient Sufi approach to dreams with the insights of modern psychology. Since 2000 the focus of his writing and teaching has been on spiritual responsibility in our present time of transition, an awakening global consciousness of oneness, and spiritual ecology (www.workingwithoneness.org). He has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday, and featured on the Global Spirit series shown on PBS.

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TítuloCatching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork & Jungian Psychology
AutoresLlewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Irina Tweedie
Ediciónreimpresa, revisada
EditorThe Golden Sufi Center, 1998
ISBN1890350001, 9781890350000
Largo330 páginas
  
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