On the Way to the Wedding: Transforming the Love Relationship

by Linda Schierse Leonard

Overview

With deep understanding and practical wisdom, Linda Leonard writes about the longing for a true wedding, one that unites two beings in a sacred search for meaning in life. Exploring dreams, personal experiences, myths and fairy tales, and themes from films and literature, the author uncovers the inner obstacles to love and creativity as experienced by both men and women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570627118
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	03/13/2001
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Linda Schierse Leonard is the author of Creation's Heartbeat, Meeting the Madwoman, Witness to the Fire, and On the Way to the Wedding.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface: the Search for a Soulmate	1
Part 1	The Wandering	13
1.	Through the Woods	17
2.	Prince Charming and the Special Princess	25
3.	The Ghostly Lover	39
4.	The Bewitchment	63
5.	The Demon Lover	77
6.	The Ring of Power	111
Part 2	The Loving	131
7.	Into the Clearing	135
8.	The Missing Bridegroom and the Woman in Black	149
9.	Beauty and the Beast	165
Part 3	The Wondering	187
10.	The Divine Wedding	191
11.	The Veil	205
12.	The Vow	221
13.	The Ring of Love	245
	Notes	253
	Credits	261

Editorial Reviews

By ``wedding'' Leonard means not only union with a human lover but also union with God and the integration of our work with our life. To bring about any or all of these unions we must overcome various obstacles presented by our psyches. Leonard uses dreams, fairy tales, poems, life stories, and especially the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke to illustrate what these obstacles are and how to deal with them. An example of Jungian psychology at work, On the Way to the Wedding is a free-flowing book, short on organization, that nevertheless presents the general reader with a number of important psychological insights about the integration of life's opposites. John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Lib., New York

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