Dancing Between Two Worlds: Jung and the Native American Soul (Jung and Spirituality) - Softcover

Gustafson, Fred R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809136937 ISBN 13: 9780809136933

Publisher: Paulist Pr, 1997

Synopsis

In this thought-provoking and sensitive book, a noted Jungian scholar explores the deepest elements in the American psyche that need healing to bring forth the best in both of the worlds we walk in: the highly differentiated and technologically developed Western civilization and the indigenous native "soul" that is the essence of each human being. The author demonstrates that this soul is forcefully represented in America in the experience of the Native American peoples and their relationship to the land and to the ancient "indigenous one" at the heart of our human rights.

The author explores not only the best of Native American spiritual thought to rediscover that soul, but also the terrible psychic damage done to later settlers by five hundred years of violence against the original peoples. He sketches positive directions that will create a partnership between the two worlds of our past and bring them together in a "dance" that will encourage a more redemptive spiritual order.

About this title

About the Author

Fred R. Gustafson, a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich and a clergy member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a psychotherapist in private practice, a pastoral counselor, and a Jungian analyst with Temenos Counseling Services in West Allis and Watertown Wisconsin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paulist Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809136937
• ISBN 13: 9780809136933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160