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    Underworld & Archetypes Fully Illustrated
    Underworld & Archetypes Fully Illustrated
    Underworld & Archetypes Fully Illustrated
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    Underworld & Archetypes Fully Illustrated

    By James Bennett and David Kidd

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    Haven’t we all once cried out I’m “going through Hell”? James Bennett examines that feeling more closely: If heaven and hell represent an intellect and body that have become polarized and destructively antagonistic, what does that suggest for healing? Come into this book and experience the images of the dark realm beneath

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoldenaer
    Release dateNov 17, 2015
    ISBN9780990703150
    Underworld & Archetypes Fully Illustrated
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    James Bennett

    James Bennett, born 1949, grew up in a tiny village on the North Downs, England. Bennett found a lifelong love of words, poetry and thinking outside the box. He went on to study English Literature at Cambridge University in the turbulent mind-expanding late 1960's. Bennett took to Buddhist meditation, Jungian Psychology and the Sufi Order International. After graduating 1971 he travelled with Sufis to the Glastonbury Fayre to attend that epic festival of music and spirituality. There he met the publisher of this book who invited him to move to Edinburgh, Scotland, to help run Gandalf's Garden Seed Center, a mystical discussion center that accepted all insights. For there Bennett's interest in dream led him to Dr. Winifred Rushforth, a pioneer in dream groups, who combined a Jungian perspective with eclectic spirituality. Bennett then helped in the creation of the Salisbury Centre, that still offers meditation, yoga and tai chi, crafts, dream groups and the study of mystical writings from all religions. Bennett next felt drawn to psychotherapy. To gain a solid background in a helping profession he entered a two year intensive Social Work graduate program at Edinburgh University, 1974- 1976. Bennett then worked as a psychiatric social worker training in family systems therapy. Next while working at a psychiatric hospital he also studied psychodynamic therapy, the human potential movement, and attended workshops with Bly, Meade and Hillman of the Men's Movement. In 1982 he came to USA for a certificate-training program in Gestalt Therapy in Boston, MA. There he met his current wife Judy and settled there. After working for seven years in a Boston Addictions Treatment Centre, Bennett became an independent practitioner with a licensed private practice in Arlingto. MA. Bennett has maintained a passionate interest in dreams, mythology, eco-psychology, archetypal psychology and male psychology, and this book has emerged from the disparate experiences of a searching life, in an attempt to understand his and our place in the wider universe of which we are a part.

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      Underworld & Archetypes Fully Illustrated - James Bennett

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      Dedication

      For my wife Judy: without your love and encouragement this would not have been possible, and for our daughter Rachel: your creativity and imagination are inspirational, and for all those family, friends and teachers, both living and dead, who have accompanied me on and assisted my life journey whether they are aware of it or not.

      Underworld & Archetypes

      Fully Illustrated

      Author: James Bennett

      Art Director: David Kidd

      A gem and a rare view. If you want to explore the dark feminine, darkness as source, inner riches, grounding and depth, this book is for you. Combining clear composed language with amazing imagery really brings the wisdom into focus ~ Laurence Hillman

      Despite the pain and struggle that accompany psychological descents…. these liminal places are fertile with potential; thresholds where our understanding of the world and self can dissolve and reform, triggering profound transformation and growth ~ Maria Ede-Weaving

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      GOLDENAER

      Publisher of illustrated books

      Underworld & Archtypes eBook is also available in print; full color, with 104 pages, 97 color photos and a full index. For more details go to Goldenaer.com

      Previously published: Chapter 1, Out There, was published as Beings From Outer Space in Spring Journal by Lost Souls, Vol. 65, Spring 1999. Chapter 2, Archetypal Underworld, was published as The Earth’s Dark Underbelly, The Archetypal Underworld and the Psychogeography of Descent in Stella Maris, a Journal of Jungian Psychology Healing and Education Vol. 2, 2002—03; and also in Transitions, A Journal of Crossings Sept. 2011 by Pavement Pounders CIC. Chapter 3, The Space Between, was published as An Archetypal Background to Liminality: the Space Between in Transitions 2A Journal of Crossings Nov. 2012 by Pavement Founders CIC.

      Copyright © James Bennett. James Bennett has asserted his right, under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the Author of this Work. All rights reserved. No text from this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing from Goldenaer, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

      Design and Art Direction by David Kidd of Goldenaer. For full details of all images see back pages of this book. They are one of the following: (a) copyrighted by the artist, or (b) artwork in the public domain or (c) photographs with commercial sharing permitted under Creative Commons, see license in Appendix 3.

      Goldenaer books are available in many formats:

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      Published by Goldenaer, P.O. Box 14644, Portland, Oregon 97217, U.S.A.

      Library of Congress Publisher number 9907031

      www.goldenaer.com Contact: publisher@goldenaer.com

      ISBN 978-0-9907031-5-0

      INTRODUCTION

      What on earth is an archetype you may well ask? The word is not found in the English language till the Mid 16th century and is derived from two Greek words arche (beginning, origin) and tupos (type, pattern, model).

      This notion was then taken up by Archetypal Psychologist C.G. Jung during the development of his ideas about the Collective Unconscious and expanded upon during his subsequent writings and by the many writers and psychologists influenced by and further developing his ideas. However, the idea remains elusive and difficult to clarify with any certainty. Looking at ourselves and our world through an archetypal lens involves immersing ourselves in images and stories. Archetypes are not things like the chair I’m sitting on as I write this, or those white hydrangeas I picked yesterday sitting in a vase on my dining room table, although it’s possible that the chair and the flowers may become imbued with archetypal significance to the person witnessing them: the chair is a throne for kings and queens, the flowers emblematic of the earthly paradise for example.

      Archetypes are more like dynamic patterns accessible through experiencing the power of images to move us deeply and the ability to look at ourselves, our lives and our world metaphorically and imaginally. We witness the presence and action of archetypes in our nightly journeys to the dream world and in the myths and tales of different cultures and times, as well as in the developments and events of the world around us. Archetypes influence and act upon us whether we know it or not, since they emerge from the deepest structures of self and world.

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      The following pages written over a period of twelve years were originally published in three separate journals and are published here for the first time in an integrated format with illustrations. Although their subject matter is distinct, they are thematically linked and complement and enrich each other.

      Out There looks at what is perhaps a tendency in all of us to want to fly away from the experience and tensions involved in our physical, biological existence here and its implied transience, and the dangers of acting out archetypal dramas through over identification with a one sided perspective (spiritual versus physical).

      Underworld Archetypes explores the ancient traditions of descent and attempts to imaginatively restore the pathway down as a vital and necessary part of human and cultural experience that is encountered by all of us at some point in our lives. This journey is often feared and denied in the wider culture (up versus down).

      The Space Between examines the image of the threshold and its attendant resonances in our individual lives, as well as in different times and cultures. It is a perspective that imaginatively addresses the territory of change, loss and transience as we navigate life’s journey (here versus there).

      My hope is that as you read these pages, you allow the stories, pictures

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