Coming to Age: The Croning Years and Late-life TransformationA comprehensive overview of inner events and creative possibilities during the years after middle age. Pretat explores the tasks and rewards of this period, including the singular significance of the Denter-Persephone myth. |
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Page 85
... fear / dream / fantasy . The pain and fear of suffocating under all that coal brings up affect that really seems to have been at the bottom of a deep shaft for most of her life — her feminine energy buried in fossilized form . Gradually ...
... fear / dream / fantasy . The pain and fear of suffocating under all that coal brings up affect that really seems to have been at the bottom of a deep shaft for most of her life — her feminine energy buried in fossilized form . Gradually ...
Page 101
... Fear is like the bristles of Afaggdu , Ceridwen's dark and unredeemable son , for it protects and armors one . Perhaps awe is a better description , for the ability to embrace our worst fears is truly awe - full . Doing active ...
... Fear is like the bristles of Afaggdu , Ceridwen's dark and unredeemable son , for it protects and armors one . Perhaps awe is a better description , for the ability to embrace our worst fears is truly awe - full . Doing active ...
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... fear and to feelings of despair . We may feel we're losing our minds , as well as the use of our bodies . We may be ... fears but also the glimmering hope of a new creativity . The loss of our youthful vigor is one of those dragon fears ...
... fear and to feelings of despair . We may feel we're losing our minds , as well as the use of our bodies . We may be ... fears but also the glimmering hope of a new creativity . The loss of our youthful vigor is one of those dragon fears ...
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active imagination Activity theory analysand analyst ancient animus archetypal become began begin birth Bollingen C.G. Jung cauldron Ceridwen chakra child coming to age conscious attitude creative crone Cronus dark death Demeter Demeter's depression depths descent despair disengagement dragon dreams earth embrace Emma Emma Jung energy experience experienced fear feel felt feminine give goddess Gwion Bach happens Hecate Ibid illness Inner City Books ISBN Jung called Jung wrote Jung's Jungian Kerényi Kundalini late-life late-liminal liminal lives lost maiden Marie-Louise von Franz Marion Woodman meaning metanoia midlife mother Mysterium Coniunctionis Mythology old age older one's ourselves outer pain Persephone person physical psyche psychological realize relationship scious seems sexual shamen sixties somatic soul stage story struggle symbol symptoms tasks theory things tion Toni Wolff transformation transition uncon unconscious underworld wisdom woman women York youth Zürich