Pigs Eat Wolves: Going into Partnership With Your Dark Side - Softcover

Charles Bates

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936663049 ISBN 13: 9780936663043

Publisher: Yes Intl Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Vintage book

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About the Author:

Charles Bates is a counselor, story-teller, yogi, teacher, and organizational consultant. An award-winning fine artist, he became a disciple of the saint, Swami Rama in 1969. Internationally known in the fields of leadership and holistic personal development, Bates is an Ericksonian hypnotherapist, a member of the organizational faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, a member of the National Training Laboratories (NTL), and member of the board of directors of the national Yoga Alliance. He has taught at the University of Minnesota Bush Foundation for Superintendents and Principals Leadership, and created programs in the integration of yoga and modern therapy, executive leadership, and contemporary systems thinking, helping leaders across the country and Canada into new systems thinking and personal development. In 1999 he established 10th Dot Transformations, carrying the treasures of yoga philosophy to corporate America. He has authored an award-winning book, Pigs Eat Wolves: Going into Partnership with Your Dark Side, as well as Ransoming the Mind: Yoga and Modern Therapy.

From Publishers Weekly:

Bates ( Ransoming the Mind ) reminds readers of the importance of fairy tales as ``the metaphors and poetry of the human psyche.'' Specifically, he contends that in the story of ``The Three Little Pigs'' (the unexpurgated tale, not the sanitized, truncated version familiar to most readers) lies a powerful paradigm for inner transformation. Snippets of the tale are laboriously exegeted by the author. Bates's analysis, however, crosses the line into eisegesisreading into the text as he reads far more into the story than the text warrants, while vague anecdotes are left standing as if self-explanatory. He blends equal portions of pop psychology, Eastern philosophy and Jungian archetypes to claim that the wicked wolf is a projection of our shadow self, which must be engaged if we are to achieve personal integration. By going into partnership with the wolves of our lives, claims the author, we can grasp the divinity that is rightly ours. Bates's exposition cautions readers to recall that one should never treat evil as if it arises wholly outside oneself, a point better made by St. Augustine 1600 years ago. The very brief afterword by Bly ( Iron John ) adds little.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Yes Intl Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0936663049
• ISBN 13: 9780936663043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 145