Writing Toward Wholeness: Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung

by Susan M Tiberghien, Murray Stein (Foreword by)

Overview

From its first pages, Writing Toward Wholeness encourages readers to embark on their own journey through writing toward selfhood, toward wholeness. At every step, it reinforces the lessons C.G. Jung learned and shared with millions of people. In focusing on insights and excerpts from Jung's writings, and from contemporary writers, the author brings together psychology, spirituality, and the arts, offering a way to wholeness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630514549
Publisher:	Chiron Publications
Publication date:	03/01/2018
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Susan Tiberghien, an American writer living in Geneva, Switzerland, holds a BA in Literature and Philosophy (Phi Beta Kappa) and did graduate work at Grenoble University, France and the CG Jung Institute, Kusnacht, Switzerland. She has published four memoirs Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center, An Invitation to Silent Prayer; Side by Side: Writing Your Love Story; and Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman, and the writing handbook, One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft, along with numerous essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Tiberghien has been teaching Jungian inspired writing workshops for over twenty years at C.G. Jung Societies, at the International Women's Writing Guild, and at writers' centers and conferences in the States and in Europe. She is an active member of International PEN, a founding member of the International Writers Residence at Lavigny, Switzerland, and the director of the Geneva Writers' Group, an association of over 240 English-language writers, which she founded in 1993. Mother of six children and sixteen grandchildren, she lives with her husband in Geneva, Switzerland. www.susantiberghien.com

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Introduction 13

1. Keeping Your Own Red Books: Writing to the Soul 15

2. Pursuing Images: Active Imagination 37

3. Exploring Dreams: Listening and Writing 61

4. Composing Metaphor: Illuminating Lives 85

5. Seeing Beauty with Words: Awakening the Soul 109

6. Practicing Alchemy: From Darkness to Light 133

7. Learning Zen: Clear Seeing, Clear Writing 159

8. Writing Toward Wholeness: Cultivating the Self 187

Bibliography 217

Credits 221

Index 225

About the Author 231

Editorial Reviews

-In Writing Toward Wholeness Tiberghien gives the reader access to Jung's inner thoughts as he dialogued with his Soul in his journals. She encourages us to do likewise by developing a relationship with our Soul by following the image it presents to us. In so doing, journaling becomes a spiritual practice. Calling upon the writings of such spiritual elders as Hildegaard of Bingen, Etty Hillesum, Thomas Merton and Annie Dillard, Tiberghien shows us how to write toward wholeness as we engage this "silent place of the spirit." A deeply nurturing and inspiring book. --Maureen Murdock, Ph.D., author of The Heroine's Journey: Women's Quest for Wholeness

-In Writing Toward Wholeness, Susan Tiberghien distills a lifetime of prayerful attention. Using Carl Jung's journey, above all in the Red Book, she traces possibilities each of us has for a rounder, more conscious existence. A gifted teacher, she shows how creative energies are within our grasp and how writing practice can be part of spiritual growth. --Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, poet and author of Mother Tongue

-The most interesting conversation we ever have may prove to be with our own depths. Rather than narcissistic self-absorption, through this dialogue something within responds, speaks back to us, and out of that unfolding conversation we begin to discover, engage, and assimilate unknown parts of ourselves. As a template for this summons toward greater wholeness, Susan Tiberghien's Writing Toward Wholeness provides examples of how other thoughtful people deepened their journey, as well as a host of questions and exercises which stir and stimulate our own con versation with the soul. --James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst in Washington D.C. and author of numerous books

-In Writing Toward Wholeness Susan Tiberghien profoundly calls us to experience what Thomas Merton called the "hidden whole- ness," the "hidden ground of love," within our deepest selves. This volume invites us to take up our pen and to journal, guiding us, chapter by chapter, as we create our own path to our true self. --Paul M. Pearson, Ph.D., Director, Thomas Merton Center

-Writing towards Wholeness invites to an encounter with self. Susan Tiberghien is not just showing the reader a way towards at-one-ness in the light of creation; she is creating such a path by her writing. Those seeking their own path towards wholeness can open these pages and will find sparks of inspiration from ancient and modern texts as well as from Susan's international teaching experience which has led countless participants of her workshops to become successful authors. Susan loves and creates and lives through writing. Like Carl Gustav Jung and Thomas Merton, this author has found wholeness and so will the reader inspired by her writing. It is the "path of a lifetime." --Kristina Schellinski, Jungian Analyst, Geneva, Switzerland

-In this reflective work on the virtues of writing, Susan Tiberghien encourages the reader with excerpts from Jung, the world of Zen and her own considerable life experience. The Writing toward Wholeness journey is richly accompanied by images from Jung's Red Book and other inspired sources, along with helpful exercises. In the course of recording our dreams, visions and imaginations, we both anticipate and honor our destiny. --Robert Hinshaw, Ph.D., Faculty, C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Publisher, Daimon Verlag

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