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New release looks at Dionysos through the lens of Jung's spiritual Alchemy
Alchemy of the Heart: The Sacred Marriage of Dionysos & Ariadne.
Through the exploration of the love story of Ariadne and Dionysos, Alchemy of the Heart takes us on an archetypal adventure into an ancient world where the dance of masculine and feminine ignites fullness of being in both men and women. From the shadowy labyrinth of Minos to the sacred Initiation Chamber at Pompeii, Alchemy of the Heart travels the landscape of both the outer world and the inner psyche.
“A solid and important work of scholarship that is a must-read for those doing depth psychological work,” says Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., author and former president of Pacifica Graduate Institute. “Aguilar mines the myth of Dionysos and Ariadne for its insights into expanding Jungian notions about the animus and a woman’s journey to wholeness. In the process, she updates Jungian thought to match emerging ways of seeing gender, the feminine, and the masculine in our time.”
“A superb study of the myth of Dionysos through the lens of Jung’s spiritual alchemy,” says Michael P. Morrissey, Ph.D., and author. “Focusing on the sacred marriage of Dionysos and Ariadne, the author illuminates the journey to wholeness, both horizontal and vertical, revealing a power to heal not only a broken psyche but a broken world. Aguilar’s ‘meditative exegesis’ on the Dionysian initiation chamber in the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii is a model of transcendence at the heart of Plato’s noetic philosophy. This is a penetrating reading bringing to life an ancient, yet timeless, myth.”
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Marina Aguilar received her master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, and has been a practicing depth psychotherapist and educator since 1990. She specializes in individuation as a spiritual, as well as soul process.
Her expertise in mythology, comparative religion, spiritual alchemy and the ancient mystery school teachings serves as a valuable tool in working with archetypal themes as they emerge in day to day life, imagination, art and dreams. Having lived in the United States, Mexico and Europe, her work bridges cultures, continents and spiritual modalities and focuses on increasing consciousness and wholeness within the individual and society as a whole. |
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Introduction
-Dionysos and the Healing of the Heart
-Dionysos and the Healing of our World
-A Destructive Heritage of Biblical Story and Interpretation
-Misuse of Women and the Earth
-Redemption
-How We Met
PART ONE
HISTORY: ORIGINS, MYTHS AND MYSTERIES
1. Who is Dionysos? Why Does He Matter?
-Dionysos, the God
-What Happened?
2. Roots
-India
-Egypt
-The Egyptian Cretan Connection and the Star Sirius
-The Minoan Civilization
3. Flowering
-Greece
-Joy, Sex, Comedy and Tragedy
-The Lesser Dionysia
-Lenaia
-The Anthesteria
-Sex and the City
-The Greater Dionysian
-The Theatre of Dionysos
-The Democracy of Dionysian Worship
4. Mythic Beginnings
-The Theban Myth—Parents and Politics on Parnassus
-The Orphic Myths—Orphism and Dionysos
-The Orphic Dionysos Myth
-Our Dionysian and Titanic Nature
-The Orphic Dionysian Mysteries
5. The God of Women
-The Maenads
-The Thyades
-Dionysos, Ariadne and the Sacred Marriage
-The Myth of Dionysos and Ariadne
-Dionysos, Spiritual Mate
PART TWO
THE FEMININE PSYCHE &
HER RELATIONSHIP TO THE MASCULINE
6. Feminine Individuation and the Animus
-Jung’s Theory of Individuation
-The Animus
-Logos and Eros
-Thinking and Feeling
-Dionysos, an Erotic Animus
-The Body and Definitions of the Masculine and Feminine
-Phallos and Animus
-Solar Phallos
-Chthonic Phallos and Dionysos
-Dionysos—Consort of the Embodied Feminine
-The Expression of the Dionysian Animus
-Dionysos and Ariadne
-The Whole Woman
7. The Sacred Feminine
-Mary, the Shekhinah, and Lilith
-Lilith
-The Dark Feminine in Christianity
-The Black Madonna
-The Archetype of the Labyrinth
-Ariadne, the Lady of the Labyrinth
-The Labyrinth: Soul, Spirit and the Self
-Ariadne and Her Animus
8. Soul, Body, Spirit
-Christ, Dionysos and Enlightenment
-Soul and Spirit
-Soul and Body
-Sex and the Divine, The Goat and the Lamb
-The Goat and the Witch
-More about Christ and Dionysos
-Dionysos and Symbols of Enlightenment
-The Thyrsus and Kundalini
9. The Chemical Wedding of Ariadne and Dionysos
-Alchemy, Initiation and Individuation
-The Chemical (Alchemical) Wedding
10. Initiation and Individuation:
-The Women of Pompeii and Women of Today
-Experiencing the Initiation Chamber
-The Sacred Drama of Initiation: Scenes 1-10
-Conclusion
PART THREE
DIONYSOS AND ARIADNE IN TODAY’S WORLD
11. Dionysos and the Feminine in the Contemporary World
-The Three Waves of Feminism and Dionysos
12. Dionysos and Ariadne as Archetypes in Modern Psychology
-Dionysian Signs and Symptoms
-The Dionysian in Dreams
-The Dionysian Boy, Adolescent and Man in an Apollonic World
-Ariadne and the Contemporary Woman
-Goddesses in the Ariadne Woman
13. Conclusion
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