Connie Zweig

Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path

The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening

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Produktbeschreibung

With guidance for both inspired seekers and disillusioned seekers, the author explores how to navigate the narrow path through the darkness toward the light, rekindle the flame of longing, and once again engage spiritual practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• 5th Edition, Revised Edition of Meeting the Shadow
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781644117224
• ISBN-10: 1644117223
• Artikelnr.: 64698905

Autorenporträt

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired psychotherapist, former executive editor at Jeremy P. Tarcher Publishing, former columnist for Esquire magazine, and contributor to the LA Times. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is the coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of the Sufi Poet Rumi. She lives in California.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
A Call for Spiritual Awakening
A Call for Shadow Awareness
PROLOGUE
My Longing for the Light
A Meditation on Up
PART 1
Before the Fall
A Guide for Faithful Believers
ONE
The Holy Longing
Awakening to Holy Longing
God Longs for Us as We Long for God
The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Sufi Poet Rumi
TWO
Longing for God
The Hidden Object of Desire
The Changing God Image: Involution or Down
The Changing God Image: Evolution or Up
The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Hindu Master Ramakrishna
THREE
Longing for the Human Beloved
The Search for Romantic Union
Beloved as Parent: The Psychology of Love
Beloved as God: The Archetypes of Love
The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Sufi Lovers Majnun and
Layla
FOUR
Longing for the Divine Human
The Search for Spiritual Communion
Priest or Teacher as Parent: The Psychology of Spirituality
Priest or Teacher as God: The Archetypes of Spirituality
Priest or Teacher as Divine Human: The Teacher/Student Relationship
The Inner Marriage: A Story of Holy Longing in the Christian Saint
Catherine of Siena
PART 2
After the Fall
A Guide for Disillusioned Believers
FIVE
Meeting Spiritual Shadow
Darkness on the Path
Encountering the Spiritual Other: The Breakdown of Communion
Tales of Religious and Spiritual Abuse
SIX
Understanding Spiritual Abuse
Detecting the Patterns across Denominations
The Consequences of Spiritual Abuse
Who Is Susceptible to Spiritual Abuse?
Meeting the Shadow of Addiction
Death and Transcendence
MIDLOGUE
My Longing for the Dark
A Meditation on Down
SEVEN
Rekindling the Flame
Shadow-Work for Spiritual Abuse and Disillusionment
Communal Shadow-Work
Individual Shadow-Work
EPILOGUE TO THE NEW EDITION
Through the Shadow to the Light
Acknowledgments
APPENDIX ONE
The Association for Spiritual Integrity (ASI) Code of Ethics and Good
Practice
APPENDIX TWO
The Code of Ethics for Insight Meditation Society (IMS) Teachers
Bibliography
Index
About the Author