Every life retells the hero or heroine's journey: a wondrous, sometimes painful but always necessary movement toward wholeness. What better way to understand our own experiences of growth and transformation than to hear from others who have gone before us? In
Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
Helen Luke explores the inner life through dream and imagery, story and symbol.
The
Every life retells the hero or heroine's journey: a wondrous, sometimes painful but always necessary movement toward wholeness. What better way to understand our own experiences of growth and transformation than to hear from others who have gone before us? In
Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
Helen Luke explores the inner life through dream and imagery, story and symbol.
The first half of the book covers Luke's life from her earliest recollections until the age of seventy. It weaves together dreams and symbolic images from her inner life with accounts of personal events, including her seminal meeting with Jung. The book's second half is comprised of selections from the journals she kept during her last twenty years of life, offering a rare glimpse into a personal path of individuation.
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Paperback
,
264 pages
Published
February 20th 2001
by Morning Light Press
(first published December 1st 1999)
Helen Luke writes in depth on her inner journey. I was often left wondering what exactly was going on in her life. I found her sharing of her dreams and what they meant to her to more than make up for the lack of physical details. I see her dedication to the truth within and the way she was led and it has given me a nudge to listen more deeply myself.
The autobiography is written well and is interesting. The second part of the book is excerpts edited from 20 years of her journals right up until
Helen Luke writes in depth on her inner journey. I was often left wondering what exactly was going on in her life. I found her sharing of her dreams and what they meant to her to more than make up for the lack of physical details. I see her dedication to the truth within and the way she was led and it has given me a nudge to listen more deeply myself.
The autobiography is written well and is interesting. The second part of the book is excerpts edited from 20 years of her journals right up until she died. I found myself unable to understand what I was reading and skimmed through them. Near the end I found two things that touched me:
"Fully awake, the association came. The Dalai Lama: 'My religion is simply kindness', Jung: 'In the abysmal darkness of the unknown God I found a great kindness.' Is the Guru now to be found inside and outside, beyond duality?"
At the end of a poem "Blow then, ye winds, the colors on their course, The rainbow's end is in the rainbow's source."
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Her autobiography and excerpts from her journals. Born in l904 in England, Luke studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich, met Jung himself, and practiced as a Jungian analyst in the U.S. The book is full of her dreams and how she tried to make sense of them, from which I have been able to learn some principles for interpreting my own dreams.