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SPIRITUAL BREAKDOWN - BREAKTHROUGH

Mental Breakdown as Healing
Dr. John Weir Perry

The Far Side of Madness
Review by Robert Coteau

When the Dream Becomes Real:
The Inner Apocalypse
Michael O'Callaghan

From Caterpiller to Butterfly
Ralph Metzner

The Fragmented Self:
Shamanic Explorations
Maureen B. Roberts Ph.D

Spiritual Emergence Network



PSYCHOLOGY

The Psychology of Cyberspace
John Suler, Ph.D.

The Jung Lexicon
Daryl Sharp, Ph.D.

Summary of Jung's Psychology
Marc Fonda

Jung: The Process of Individuation
Eric Pettifor, Ph.D,

The Individuation Process
Eric Akroyd

Archetypes: As Defined By Jung
Charles T. Davis

The Archetypes:
Author not Identified

Carl Gustav Jung: Hand Out
Author Not Identified

Maslow: Self Actualization
Author Not Identified

The Hero's Journey:
Reg Harris

Glossary: Jungian Terms
Craig Chalquist M.S.





TRAUMA

Trauma and Recovery
Judith Herman, M.D.

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Peter Levine, Ph.D

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
National Center for PTSD

Grief
David L. Conroy, Ph.D.

Choosing a Therapist
Martha Ainsworth




MYSTICISM - RELIGION

Religions of the World
Wikkipedia Encyclopedia

Mysticism in World Religions
Deb Platt

The Interior Castle
St. Teresa of Avilla

The Dark Night of the Soul
St. John of the Cross

Mystical Experiences
Gary Goodwin

The Black Madonna
Ken Rabac, Ph. D. , Th. D

Artemis
Iona Miller

Kali - The Divine Mother
Author not Identified

Kali-Ma
Author not Identified

Sophia: Feminine Wisdom
Stephan A. Hoeller

Hagia Sophia


What is a Gnostic?
Stephan A. Hoeller

The Nag Hammadi Library




SPIRITUAL PATHWAYS

The Hieros Gamos in the
Rosarium Philosophorum
Karen Claire-Ross

Alchemy and the Rosarium
Philosophorum
Adam McLean

Jung, Pagan Psychology
& Alchemy
Quenten and Kim Bruce-Walker

Celtic Wisdom: John O'Donohue & Michael Toms

Sacred Dance
Carrie Konyha

Learning the Tarot
Joan Bunning

Dream Dictionary
Shari Adagio

Tonglen
Pema Chodron

Seven Bodies - Seven Chakras
Osho Foundation

Kaballah

Kundalini Awakening
El Collie




RELATIONSHIPS

Loving a Human Being
Andrea Weitzner

Celebrate Friendship
Dave White

Aristotle on Friendship
David Thunder

A Self-Study Toolbox
Craig Chalquist

Stages of Forgiveness
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D




FUNNY HA-HA'S

Bliss



CONTRIBUTING VOICES

Voices of Spirit








THE FIFTH BODY
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

This story is dedicated to my mother. She was a
gardener; a tiller of soil. Of the many gifts she gave me I remain
most grateful that she taught me how to take a pile of shit, and
compost it into fertile new ground.


PART I - INTRODUCTION
Home
What Kind of Story is This?
Hebrews
Medicine: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Schizophrenia: Michael O'Callaghan
Trials of the Visionary Mind - John Weir Perry Ph.D
Tips For Reading This Story




PART II - THE STORY
Preamble
The Arrival
In the Beginning
My Mother
My Father and I
My Father's History
The Cloud Cuckoo Land Motel
Whispers From the Soul
The Arrival of Various Sundry Items
My Early Childhood
The Farm
Invocation
Nightmare
The Cold Light of Day
Holiday Memories
An Old Poem
A Horrible-Beautiful Truth
Friends and Love
Of Basements, Terror, and Lies
Fugitive Pieces
Middle Years
Lonely People
My Holy Beautiful
Leprosy Man
Of Ice Cream and Scary Guys
Under the Cyber Bed
The Empress, The Emperor, and The High Priestess
A Deal is Struck
Gallagher's Song
Therapizing
The Beauty in the Darkness
The First Story That Fell Out of My Head
A Fellow Traveler Comes Upon the Way
A New Kind of Game
Strange Days
The Telling of Stories and Scary Things
A Song For Limh
Whispers of the Black Queen
Of Apples and Showers
Early Memories
Of Angels and Leprosy
A War and Three Girls
Fix-ed-ness
Belovedness
Miracles
Of Mothers and Dying
Remember the Angels
Bad Nights
Dancing With Divinity
Of Names and Bodies
Lightning Crashes
Five Protectors
Leprosy Man Speaks
Devilish Dealings
Of Balance and Love
A Happy Song
Something About Five-Star Woman
A Story About Everything
Angels. All.
Semantic Spaces
Of Pain and Remembrances
The War
Ascension
Missing Buttons
A Dream Between Time
Of Hands and Hearts
The Return
Prezzies and Understandings
Be Not Forgetful
Gallagher Butler
The Key to the Treasure
The Eye of the Needle
The White King and Queen
The AC
Review: To Do List




PART III - UNDERSTANDING

Image Sequence in the Renewal Process
Visionary Experience in Myth and Ritual
Relationship as Healing
Under the Cyber Bed (Reprise)
Tess Today
After the Ecstacy
Blessings
Excursions Into The Cold




PART IV - ADDITIONAL READING SOURCES

Trials of the Visionary Mind
Disassociation and Ego Collapse
The Inner Apocalypse
Mental Breakdown as Healing
Embracing the Fragmented Self
The Individuation Process
The Hero's Journey
Summary of Steps in the Hero's Journey
The Rosarium Philosophorum
Seven Bodies - Seven Chakras
Sophia - Feminine Wisdom
Kali - The Divine Mother
The Black Madonna
The Dark Night of the Soul
The Mystic Heart
Spiritual Emergence Network


Guest Books




In a Dark Time ~ Theodore Roethke



People say that friends are made. I don't think friends are made at
all, but rather discovered. If you look back along your life, you will
see that at the crucial thresholds, different people were sent to you
to help you acknowledge what was going on, to recognize your own
responsibility, and to bring you over thresholds. The most creative
growth points in our inner journey are all due to the assistance,
graciousness and surprise that friendship brings.

Friendship has a secret logic and a secret destiny.
Something that's startling about one's friends is that the first
meeting was so contingent and so seemingly accidental; and yet,
if you look back now, your life would be unimaginable without the
friends who have helped to shape you and give birth to your soul.

There's something radically creative in the human spirit and mind
and because that creativity is linked to the contours of absence
within us, there are places of incompletion, places where we are
hungry within us. Only in the kinship of friendship do we actually
become one with ourself.

A friend is a true mirror in which we begin to get some little
glimpse of who we are and the immensity that we carry -- and that
sometimes haunts us. Friendship is the shelter; and it's not
a complacent shelter but a shelter that settles some primal restlessness
down within us. It liberates us to get into the dance of our own life.

John O'Donohue



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