In this enriching collection of eleven interrelated essays, A Way of Working explores the ancient relationship of art, order, and craft. Craft is considered as a "sort of ark" for the transmission of real knowledge about being, and about our deep creative aspirations. The book includes contributions from D. M. Dooling, Joseph Cary, Paul Jordan-Smith, Michael Donner, Harry Remde, Jean Kinkead Martine, Jean Sulzberger, Chanit Roston, and P. L. Travers. This group of authors write not as individuals but as members of a community — a guild effort. As one chapter heading put it: the alchemy of craft.

A Way of Working: The Spiritual Dimension of Craft

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Morning Light Press

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

Luke, Helen M.

Literature & Fiction

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.

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 founder of Parabola magazine, D. M. Dooling served as its editorial director until her death in 1991. This small but beautiful book contains a collection of her insightful and provocative essays on dreams, obstacles, death, creation, sadness, relationships, and other subjects vital to seekers of spiritual meaning, as well as previously unpublished poems.

The Spirit of Quest: Essays and Poems

Dooling, D. M.

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.

Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love

Seven elders, ranging in age from 65 to 92 and coming from a wide variety of professional, personal, and religious backgrounds, explore the force at the heart of human relationships: the manifestation of love in all its forms—romantic, spiritual, familial, and sexual.

Kenneth R. Lakritz

Thomas M. Knoblauch

Parenting & Relationships

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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A Way of Working: The Spiritual Dimension of Craft

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 Spirit of Quest: Essays and Poems

The Way of Woman: And Other Essays

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

Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love

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