Psychology
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Archetypes in Religion and Beyond
The Jungian concept of archetypes is of immense value for critically distinguishing what is potentially of universal practical value in religious and other cultural traditions, and separating this from the dogmatic elements. However, Jung encumbered the concept of archetypes with debatable construct...
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The Psychology of the Yogas
The Psychology of the Yogas explores the dissonance between the promises of the yogic quest and psychological states of crisis. Western practitioners of yoga and meditation who have embarked upon years-long spiritual quests and who have practiced under the guidance of a guru tell of profound and ong...
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Understanding Religious Experience
This work seeks to answer a number of fundamental questions about religious experiences. It thus addresses issues such as what it is that makes such experiences 'religious,' whether some religious experiences are more 'authentic' than others and whether these experiences provide insights into otherw...
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Sacred Psychology
Psychology today pathologizes all aspects of the human condition without ever examining its own ills, which have caused it to become fragmented. People from non-Western backgrounds are often adversely affected by the limitations of the discipline, and often avoid treatment altogether. By contrast...
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Embodied Meaning and Integration
Embodied meaning is a new approach to understanding the significance of all symbols, including those of language, as association in human experience. It has been developed since the 1980’s, but its full practical significance has rarely been applied, nor have the full challenges that it presents...
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A Systemic History of the Middle Way
Robert M. Ellis, Iain McGilchrist
Systemic history is an approach to explaining the past, that tries to maximize our understanding of context. Unlike most history, it does not do this by just narrating a chain of causal relationships for a given group through time. Instead, it shows how simpler systems become more complex over ti...
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The Wise Wound
This is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing or curse? This groundbreaking study of the facts, fantasies, and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift...
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In Praise of Masturbation
Philippe Brenot lifts the lid on masturbation and argues that this most intimate of acts in our personal lives is also the most natural, normal, and necessary way to keep in touch with your sexuality.
For the majority of us, masturbation is the most widespread sexual practice, and fo... -
Food and the Memory
This is the eighteenth volume of the ongoing series of papers and submissions to the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, the longest running food history conference in the world.The subject this year is more speculative than is often the case and contributors have ranged widely over a topic w...
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ABC, The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind
Ivan Illich, Barry Sanders, Barry Saferstein
In ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy.
Their collab...