In this classic text on aging wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, and also on suffering. In examining some of the great masterpieces of literature produced by writers at the ends of their lives, she elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating and encourages us to grow emotionally and mentally in this culminating stage of our own lives.

Old Age Journey Into Simplicity

Helen M. Luke

Literature & Fiction

Morning Light Press

Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays

At an age when most people would be thinking about retirement, Helen M. Luke embarked on two new careers, helping found the Apple Farm Community, a retreat and study center near Three Rivers, Michigan, and simultaneously making her debut as a writer, drawing on a lifetime of spiritual and psychological counseling. These essays, published over the past three decades, show the breadth of Luke's experiences as a Jungian psychologist, lecturer, and author. The collection is divided into three sections, indicative of three main streams in Luke's own thinking: her distinctive viewpoint as a woman who has lived through and observed every decade of the present century; the importance of Anglo-Catholicism as a touchstone for responsibility and discrimination in her search; her lifelong love of examining the world's great literature as a route towards knowledge. Luke's ideas are often iconoclastic to contemporary attitudes of sexual politics, religious dogma, and literary interpretation: her approach is individual and unique, rigorous and refreshing, as she combines these three paths — the way of woman, the way of discrimination, and the way of story — into a kaleidoscope of the inner journey so necessary to us all.

Luke, Helen M.

Religion & Spirituality

Old Age: Journey into Simplicity

The renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reads her classic text on aging wisely, reflecting on the final journeys described in Homer's "Odyssey," Shakespeare's "King Lear" and "The Tempest," and T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding," and also on suffering. In examining some of the great masterpieces of literature produced by writers at the end of their lives, she elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating and encourages us to grow emotionally and mentally in this culminating stage of our own lives.

History & Criticism

Selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending  literally  to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, he became a leader in the French Resistance and survived the horrors at Buchenwald.

And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance

Biographies & Memoirs

LUSSEYRAN, Jacques

Leaders & Notable People

The Way of Woman and Other Essays guides women to seek the realization of their essential feminine natures. Helen M. Luke speaks of community, levels of relationships, and humility, through the Cat Archetype, Demeter and Kore, and Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" in a way that provides real growth for our everyday lives.

The Way of Woman: And Other Essays

Selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending literally to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, he became a leader in the French Resistance and survived the horrors at Buchenwald.

Jacques Lusseyran

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.

Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: The Autobiography and Journals of Helen M. Luke

Self-Help

Dreams

Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography

Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul is a spiritual biography of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, a man whose ideas revolutionized modern psychology. Through over 150 full-color and black and white illustrations, including rare photographs and never-before-seen artwork by Jung himself, his life and work comes vividly to life. By combining Jung’s voice with the impressions of his contemporaries, author Claire Dunne gives the reader a multi-dimensional view of this complex genius. A book that will deepen and expand the understanding of both novice and expert. Claire Dunne’s sensitivity of feeling for her subject allows us to meet Jung in all his diverse complexity his contradictions and paradox, human failings and strength, his greatness and creativity. We meet a man at once transparent to transcendence but also earthy, practical, a craftsman of wood and stone as well as souls.” From the introduction by Jean Houston.

Dunne, Claire

Over the course of its twenty-five years of publication, Parabola Magazine has interviewed some of the most brilliant, wise, compassionate, and fascinating people from a wide variety of the world’s religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions. Gathering Sparks includes such notables as Thomas Berry, Ursula K. Le Guin, Oliver Sacks, Joseph Campbell, Chief Tom Porter, Chinua Achebe, Marion Woodman, Peter Brook, Elie Wiesel, H. H. the Dalai Lama, Father Bede Griffiths, Father Thomas Keating, Helen M. Luke, P. L. Travers, Michael Dames, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Frederick Franck, Arthur Amiotte, Heather Valencia, Sobonfu Somé, William Segal, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Kathleen Raine. Famous or obscure, familiar faces or strangers, the voices in Gathering Sparks have come together in a great chorus to share their wisdom, perspectives and diverse light with fellow seekers.

Gathering Sparks: Interviews from Parabola Magazine

Religious Studies

In an era when healing has become of increasingly vital concern, The Nature of Healing explores this subject from the perspective of a variety of cultures, traditions and sciences to offer a powerful perspective on health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, Eastern and Western medical theories and treatments, and the final step in the healing process — consciously confronting the inevitability of death. The primary focus of The Nature of Healing is on the transformative nature of disease and the metaphorical dimension of healing. Contributors include Norman Cousins, C.G.Jung, Bill Wilson, Thich Nhat Hanh and many others.

The Nature of Healing: Writings from the World's Spiritual Traditions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

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Old Age Journey Into Simplicity

Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays

Old Age: Journey into Simplicity

And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance

The Way of Woman: And Other Essays

And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance

Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: The Autobiography and Journals of Helen M. Luke

Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography

Gathering Sparks: Interviews from Parabola Magazine

The Nature of Healing: Writings from the World's Spiritual Traditions