Subject: ✤ Chiron Publications announces release of Where Dreams Come Alive: The Alchemy of the African Healer

Chiron new release looks at symbolic world of the African healer

Chiron Publications is pleased to announce the release of Where Dreams Come Alive: The Alchemy of the African Healer by Lynne Radomsky.

Where Dreams Come Alive documents the initiatory patterns embedded in the journey of a Zulu woman’s heroic confrontation with her calling to be a healer. The rich symbolic world of the African healer can be considered an image of a creative individuation process that demonstrates the autonomy of deep psychic processes.

Archetypal phenomena in the cosmology of the African healer are amplified through the stages of the alchemical opus and the psychology of C.G. Jung. These phenomena arise when there is a serious attempt to engage with the autonomous psyche. This in turn, suggests a return, with consciousness, to the instincts, to an inner numinosity, to the phenomenon of psyche and matter, and spirit in nature.

A main focus in this work is the idea that there is a remarkable parallel between the valences given to dreams in the African healing realm as there is in the psychology of C.G. Jung. In a similar fashion to the analyst, the healer approaches the dream with respect for the numinosity of the dream images and messages. Attention to dream material is understood as essential for healing.

The author's direct and personal collaboration with various indigenous healing communities in South and Southern Africa, Namibia and Botswana provides a rich backdrop to and foundation for her work. The meeting of two cultures in the therapeutic temenos and the ceremonial rituals of the African healing initiation provides the vessel for the transformation necessary for the emergence of something new and as yet largely unarticulated.

“Where Dreams Come Alive is a beautifully written book that illustrates in depth an initiation process of becoming an African healer. Using Jungian psychology and alchemical associations, Dr. Radomsky skillfully describes the process through which her patient comes to understand and accept the need to combine her initial pull toward becoming a medical professional in the Western world with following the call from her unconscious to become an indigenous healer. This book offers many valuable insights into both the complexities and benefits of cross-cultural understanding and the reader will experience the gift of exploring initiation rites as well.” 
- Rose-Emily Rothenberg, Jungian analyst, author of The Jewel in the Wound: How the Body Expresses the Needs of the Psyche and Offers a Path to Transformation.
Lynne Radomsky, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst with a professional focus on private practice, and post-graduate clinical training and supervision. She has published on this topic, and she lectures internationally on the amplification of African symbolism and the psychology of C.G. Jung.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 9
List of Images 11
Introduction 13
Chapter 1. Lokuzalwa: The Birth of a Healer 27
Chapter 2. Amadlozi: The Ancestral Spirits 47
Chapter 3. Ukuphahla: Connecting with Spirit 59
Chapter 4. Ukuthwasa: A Call to Healing 71
Chapter 5. Imithi Emnyama: The Black Medicine 83
Chapter 6. Imithi Emhlope: The White Medicine 95
Chapter 7. Imithi Ebomuvu: The Red Medicine 113
Chapter 8. Ukuphothula: The Final Awakening 129
Chapter 9. Umbilini: Union of Opposites 139
Chapter 10. Unio Mystica: As Above, So Below 169
Appendix: A Brief Account of the South African Demographic 203
Notes 209
References 213
Index 219
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