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The Unfolding Self : Varieties of Transformative Experience.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metzner, Ralph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life change events--Decision making.
- Life change events.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, NM : Synergetic Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Prefaces
- Introduction: From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Symbols and Metaphors of Transformation
- Theories of Human Transformation
- Variations on the Theme of Self-Transformation
- 1. Awakening from the Dream of Reality
- Ordinary Awareness as Dreamlike
- Dreaming, Sleeping, and Waking in Everyday Life
- Transformation as an Awakening
- 2. Uncovering the Veils of Illusion
- The World Perceived as Maya
- The Transformation of Vision
- Unmasking the Self
- 3. From Captivity to Liberation
- Body and Form as Prison
- Knots, Ties, Nets, and Bonds in Relationships
- Strategies of Escape and Liberation
- 4. Purification by Inner Fire
- Fire Deities and the Spirit of Fire
- Hell, Purgatory, and the Fire of Purification
- Kundalini and the Yoga of Fire
- The Mystical Fire of Union
- 5. From Fragmentation to Wholeness
- Psychic Fragmentation in Ordinary Awareness and in Madness
- Shamanic Dismemberment: Osiris and Dionysus
- Alchemical Separatio in Meditation and Psychotherapy
- Approaches to Wholeness
- 6. Reconciling with the Inner Enemy
- On Integrating the Shadow
- Accepting the Unacceptable
- From Denial to Affirmation
- Purification and Elimination
- From Inner Warfare to Inner Peace
- On Facing One's Demons
- 7. On Dying and Being Reborn
- Conscious Death and Intentional "Dying"
- Nearness to Death as Transformative Experience
- Thanatos and Psychic Death
- Alchemical Mortificatio
- The New Birth and the Eternal Child
- 8. From Darkness to Light
- Enlightenment of the Physical Body
- The Illumination of the Mind
- The Self as a Being of Light
- 9. Integrating the Inner Wild Animal
- Remembering Our Evolutionary Ancestry
- Animals in Folklore, Mythology, and Religion
- Tales of Animal Transformations
- 10. Unfolding the Tree of Our Life
- The Tree as a Symbol of Self-Unfoldment
- Climbing the Tree, Straightening the Pillar
- The World Tree and the Inverted Tree
- The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge
- 11. Journey to the Place of Vision and Power
- The Myth of the Wanderer
- Departure and Threshold Crossing
- Descent into the Depths
- "Flying" and the Upper Realms
- Journeys into Nonordinary Reality
- Returning Home
- 12. Returning to the Source
- Man as Stranger, Life as Exile
- The Outgoing Path and the Returning Path
- The Homeward Journey
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Metzner, Ralph. Unfolding Self.
- ISBN:
- 9780907791966
- 0907791964
- Publisher Number:
- 99996763009
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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