Drawing on mythology, literature, and Jungian philosophies, a contemporary study seeks to explain why modern women are struggling with conflicting roles and a lack of spiritual nourishment and addresses a variety of issues

The Way of Woman

Politics & Social Sciences

Luke, Helen M.

Social Sciences

DOUBLEDAY

Helen M. Luke devoted her life to the exploration of the self -- both her own and that of countless others who came to her for counseling. She was endowed with a deep grasp of archetypal forces and the ability to evoke them with luminous prose. Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On consists of a memoir she wrote at the age of seventy but never published and excerpts culled from the fifty-four volumes of journals written in her final years. She weaves together dreams and symbolic images from her inner life with personal and world events, bringing a clear, unsentimental honesty and vibrant insight to all that she recounts. Reflecting on her past as a way of illuminating the present, Luke inspires us to be aware, attend to our personal truths, and "know and accept and live the next thing with devotion." This is Helen Luke's final and magnum opus -- her gift to the world.

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

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Harmony/Bell Tower

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 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.

Old Age: Journey into Simplicity

Parenting & Relationships

luke draws on the riches of the Bible, the I Ching, mythology, folklore, Greek tragedies and the poetry of Charles Williams to reconnect us with images and symbols of the feminine. The papers were originally written for study groups at Apple Farm, near Three Rivers, Michigan, a center for men and women seeking to discover the relationship between their daily lives and living symbol and myth.

Woman: Earth and spirit, the feminine in symbol and myth

Crossroad Publishing Co.

Discusses the images of femininity portrayed in mythology, folklore, and literature in terms of dawn, the hearth, money, revenge, and other themes

Woman Earth and Spirit: The Feminine Symbol and Myth

The Crossroad Publishing Co.

Looks at how old age and suffering are dealt with in Homer's "Odyssey," Shakespeare's "King Lear" and "Tempest," and Eliot's "Little Gidding"

Old Age

Parabola Books

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.

Religion & Spirituality

Morning Light Press

Richly illustrated with black and white reproductions of paintings inspired by Dante’s masterpiece, Luke explores each of Dante’s poetic images, ending with the "white rose," the final emblem of joy and regeneration.

Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Transformation in Dante's Divine Comedy

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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 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; and 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 three paths — the way of woman, the way of discrimination, and the way of story — into a kaleidoscope of the inner journey necessary to us all.

Morning Light Pr

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

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The Way of Woman

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

Old Age: Journey into Simplicity

Woman: Earth and spirit, the feminine in symbol and myth

Woman Earth and Spirit: The Feminine Symbol and Myth

Old Age

Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays

Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Transformation in Dante's Divine Comedy

Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays

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