The Grail Legend

Emma Jung
and Marie-Louise von Franz

Softbound

$19.95

Emma Jung who, in addition to being married to Carl Jung was also a student of Rudolf Steiner's, made the legend of the Holy Grail her life's work. When she died before completing her work, Marie-Louise von Franz (Carl Jung's best student) took up the task and bought the work to completion. The result is The Grail Legend.

Writing in a clear and readable style, the authors present the Grail legend as a living myth that is profoundly relevant to modern life. We encounter such universal figures as the Fool (the naive young Perceval), the Wise Old Man (the Hermit Gornemanz), the Virgin Maiden (Blancheflor), the Loathly Damsel, and such important theses as the Waste Land, the Trinity, and the vessel of the Grail. Weaving together narrative and interpretation, the authors show us how the legend reflects not only fundamental human problems but also the dramatic psychic events that form the background of our Christian culture.

This is a book that I have found rewarding in both the depth of its insight and the pleasure of its story. A rare combination! Very highly recommended.

Bedtime Stories

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

CD, 1 hour

$15.95

How wonderful! Bedtime stories for grown-ups! Just the thing for those of us who love stories but no longer have anyone who tells them to us.

This is a beautiful CD - an exquisite introduction to how the world of sleep and the world of stories intertwine to help us stay healthy, happy, sane and sound. If you have never heard Clarissa Pinkola Estés tell a story before, you are in for such a joyous discovery. I would call her a 'master storyteller,' except that she is so much more than that. I actually can't find the words to tell you how much warmth, depth and love she brings to each story she tells - and how magical even well-known tales become as she weaves them again for us.

As a child growing up in a family of storytellers, Dr. Estés learned firsthand how a story told at bedtime can soothe away the troubles of the day, and prepare the way for the night's dreams to follow. "Adulthood is only a disguise we wear during the daytime," she teaches. At night, we are all children.

In addition to learning how stories can open an "aperture" into the world of dreams and the meaning of such archetypal figures as Mother Night and the Sandman, you will also be treated to amazing retellings of:

• Sleeping Beauty (this is one that we all can learn from and then use what we learn to share with the children in our lives)
• The Mouse and the Lion
• The Jumping Mouse
• Winken, Blinken and Nod
• and more

You'll love this CD - even if you never have trouble sleeping! And once you hear these stories told so beautifully, I predict that you'll be rounding up the children in your life and treating them to stories yourself. Sweet dreams!!

Archetypal Imagination
Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art

Noel Cobb

Introduction by Thomas Moore

Softbound

$16.95

This unique book is about freeing psychology's poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of hte soul scientifically or medically, behaviorally or in terms of inner development, all of us are used to thinking of it in an individual context, as something personal. In this book, however, we are asked to consider psychology from a truly transpersonal perspective as a cultural, universal-human phenomenon.

Noel Cobb teaches us to look at the world as the record of the soul's struggles to awaken, as the soul's poetry. From this point of view, the true basis of the mind is poetic. Beauty, love, and creativity are as much instincts of the soul as sexuality or hunger. Thus these essays praise the value and nobility of the imagination, and instead of the usual masters of psychology the exemplars here are the artists and mystics of the Western tradition: Dante, Rumi, Rilke, Munch, Lorca, Schumann, Tarkovsky.

I like Noel Cobb's outcries on behalf of ferocity, loneliness, anxiety, "the hideous hag of life," beauty sitting in the lap of terror, Edvard Munch's paintings and Garcia Lorca's panther-like poems - let's have more.

- Robert Bly

Cool Water
Alcoholism, Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery

William Alexander

$12.00

Cool Water is a beautiful book about Ordinary Recovery, a path that approaches alcoholism not from the perspective that anyone so addicted needs first to relinquish their struggle to a Higher Power (thought this, too, is a wonderful path for many). Rather, in Ordinary Recovery (which is based in Zen Buddhism), the key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism is right before us, in the here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment. As Alexander sees it, most addictions are the result of our efforts to escape living in the present in the first place. His unique approach uses mindfulness, story and meditation to help alcoholics and others learn to come back to the moment and to find healing there. I think his approach is a healing art - simple, true, effective.