The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology

Edward Bruce Bynum

From the foreword by Stanley Krippner author of "Realms of Healing": ". . . these pages may provide a route of mending and healing for many families . . . conveys the richness of shared imagery and emotionality that operates in the life of each family member." The family group, the individual, clinical psychologists, all will find this book enormously helpful. Dr. Taub-Bynum, himself a clinical psychologist, appears to be the long needed catalyst to bring the family, as a unit, under the umbrella of the collective unconscious. In addition, he relates family behavior to documented case histories of telepathy, clairvoyance and second-sight. Writes Carl A. Whitaker, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison: "This capacity to combine concepts of family therapy, the wisdom of the East, and the wisdom of higher mathematics and physics puts (the author) in a unique position to formulate things which I respect, admire, and follow ... I am firmly convinced that members of the same family read each other in great detail and that most of that information never reaches consciousness." Comments Erik Peper, Director Biofeedback and Family Therapy Institute, Berkeley, California: ". . . offers both layman and therapist new underlying concepts in individual and family dynamics ..."

The Family Unconscious: An Invisible Bond

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Cosimo Books

Critical Acclaim for The Roots of Transcendence... From the Scholars: "This is a powerful book.... A true picture of the cross-fertilization of human history and culture....A major book, one of the signposts of the time." -Molefi Kete Asante, PhD, Chairman, Department of African-American Studies, Temple University; Author, Afroocentricity, and Rhythms Unity From the Psychiatrists: "A PIONEERING TEXT in Transego Psychology. The author envisions the next step in the development of human psychology. He raises the 'new' question that the self is not localized in the mind but is 'non-local,' a field of interconnected relations.... A valuable model is presented to define psychopathological diagnostic issues and therapeutic treatment issues. Truly wonderful." -Richard D. King, MD, From the Preface; Author, African Origin of Biological Psychiatry From the Consciousness Researchers: "A daring leap involving new conceptual models.... Discusses the anxieties and stresses of our time while IT PROVIDES READERS THE TOOLS BY WHICH ANXIETIES AND STRESSES CAN BE ADDRESSED." -Stanley Krippner, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies; Author, Dreamtime and Dreamwork, and Your Personal Mythology "A mighty synthesis of knowledge and feeling, science and poetry, clinical observation and spiritual insight... which SPEAKS POWERFULLY TO LAY AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE ALIKE.... An important contribution to our understanding of the mind and its operation in the world." -John White, MAT, Author, Future Science, and Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment Here is the epic adventure of the rise and unfolding of human consciousness from its earliest days millennia ago, on through the first civilizations and down to contemporary times. The mythic Mitochondrial DNA, "mother of humanity," of 10,000 generations ago is used to personalize this journey for readers, a journey seen to be an integral part of each of us. This includes not only her shared African gene pool but also the neuro-biologically interwoven evolutionary impulse. How different personalities deal with this intelligent and luminous current is the primary thrust of this groundbreaking book that readers will find of extraordinary value in the exploration of human consciousness. Edward Bruce Bynum, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, family therapist, and Director of the Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback Clinic, University of Massachusetts Health Services. He is the author of The Family Unconscious and Families and the Interpretation of Dreams. He has published widely in both popular and professional journals. Some of his work has been translated into German, Japanese and Russian. He is a student and a practitioner of Kundalini Yoga.

The Roots of Transcendence

Cosimo

We all share a deep memory, a primordial intuition that we can fly. The fall of light into matter is an old story, mythic as our ancestral dreams, as foundational as modern science. In The First Bird we travel again through the world, through the land of our first experiences, work our way through the dense habits of the body as the mind becomes clear and clearer still until... until, with healed wings, we fly toward the light. We cannot escape this journey. Every blood cell in our bodies is drawn towards it. The First Bird asks the reader to suspend disbelief, and to invite the imagination in. Fortunately, that's easy to do once the opening poem is read. Bynum takes us through creation, through lifespan psychology, through myth, through death and rebirth. Each poem is masterful; the entire collection is highly sophisticated, but easily read. You must jump into these poems-or fly into them-and to wherever the First Bird's spirit takes you. -Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, publisher and editor of The Aurorean poetry journal

The First Bird: Songs of the Dark Body in Flight

Off the Common Books

Gospel of the Dark Orisha is a recording, part testament, part confession, of what comes through us in the dream body when we do not edit out love, accident, appetite, or even death and surrender; when our ancestors breathe again through us, when we no longer quarrel with the body and all its gyrations toward wisdom and transcendence. We do all this while still lingering in the flesh. "Reading Edward Bruce Bynum's Gospel of the Dark Orisha is like entering an undiscovered planet in a parallel universe. There are juxtapositions that may disorient. There are verbs and adjectives never before encountered. The journey is mysterious and demanding. The experience will leave you breathless." -Howie Faerstein, author of Dreaming in the Rain and GOOGOOTZ and Other Poems

Gospel of the Dark Orisha

Love is actually a being that lives through us and many dimensions, the most ancient traveler of all. Magdalene was inhabited by it, as was her sometime teacher, sometime disciple Jesus the Christ. Together they, perhaps more than anyone else, embodied the will of love through death, incarnations and movement through the solar abyss. They left a message for us, a portal, a passageway through which we can all travel. Join them and be partly human, partly divine, taste god in all its permutations and be transformed in the luminous mystery of their experience. This is not a scientific treatise or a brief respite in the flight from body to body. It is a call of awakening into the bright memory we all share. Come, dare this lyrical blasphemy. "Nowhere in the new Testament is there an indication that Mary Magdalene was more to Jesus than one of several devout women followers. But in this volume, Edward Bruce Bynum raises and answers the question: "What if...?". Here this superb wordsmith creates two completely original characters involved in an intimate relationship. Readers who are willing to accept the difference between the Biblical holy Christ and the imagined one will be richly rewarded." -Naomi Long Madgett, Detroit Poet Laureate; Author, Connected Islands and Pilgrim Journey

The Magdalene Poems

What happens when we awaken from the great trance, walk freely among the objects of the world, meet their gaze, sense each has a secret, a direct connection to the vital center of the world? Every place has a vibration; every district of experience has a street name and a root that moves up slowly or suddenly, driven by a sublime form of appetite. This is the terrain, the inner landscape of The Luminous Heretic. Back from death and willing to enter it again, he makes no sacrifice in the temples of reason and fear but walks naked between both of them. Neither dream nor body nor simple contradiction of logic and image we often settle for; he is the worshiper of the darkness that coils within us, knows we are the light we are searching for. "His work in The Luminous Heretic illuminates the psyche previously in the dark. Images are masterfully produced and resonate deeply within the soul. With deep passion Bynum shares the world using language that rocks the spirit. In sharing his journey the reader discovers the labyrinth of his own inner world." -William Boylin, Ph.D., Psychologist and author of Bedlam

The Luminous Heretic

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