| Chiron Publications' The Bible as Dream winner in American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Awards
David L Downing, PsyD, ABPP, FAPA and Chairperson of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Awards Committee, says "one could easily discern that the competition was very keen, making the task of the Committee reviewing and deciding on the finalists and ultimate winners, a very daunting task, indeed. However, this is ultimately heartening, in that it appears there is indeed a healthy, vibrant community of psychoanalytical scholars, contributing their insights, hypotheses, findings, and results, from a broad spectrum of psychoanalytical paradigmatic positions. Additionally, we are appreciative of those publishers that continue to go against the publishing grain, and publish psychoanalytical texts for our broad community of scholar-practitioners."
In The Bible as Dream, Murray Stein shares important themes and images in the biblical narrative that from a psychological perspective, stand out as essential features of the meaning of the Bible for the modern reader.
The Bible presents a world elaborated with reference to a specific God image. As the mythographer Karl Kerenyi puts it in writing about the Greek gods and goddesses, every god and every goddess constitutes a world. So it is too with the biblical God, whose name Stein exceptionally capitalizes throughout out of cultural respect. The biblical world is the visionary product of a particular people, the ancient Hebrews and the early Christians, who delved deeply into their God image and pulled from it the multitude of perspectives, rules for life, spiritual practices, and practical implications that all together created the tapestry that we find depicted in the canonical Bible. Yahweh is the heart and soul of this world, its creator, sustainer, and destroyer. The Bible is a dream that tells the story of how this world was brought into being in space and time and what it means.
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| | | Susan Tiberghien Online Course
In this course, you will see how alchemy opens the way through darkness to light. Jung’s journey toward selfhood in The Red Book was an alchemical journey: going into the unconscious (nigredo), encountering and listening to its contents (albedo) and bringing them to the light (rubedo). After an introduction to alchemy, you will follow Jung on his journey in and out of darkness as written in The Red Book. You will then look at how you can make your own alchemical journey.
There will be examples and excerpts from contemporary writers—Marion Woodman, Orhan Pamuk, and Elaine Pagels—along with guided writing exercises. You will become an alchemist, finding your stories in the dark, remembering that you cannot hoard your bits of gold, your growing awareness. Rather you need to share your light in the world.
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