Synopsis
Expanded edition! A radical fairy tale for adults to help face the fears that consume us. The Three Little Pigs is a story of your own transformation. Which little pig are you? Who is your wolf? What does it say about your own past, present, future? "This book is excellent." - Marie Louis von Franz.
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About the Author
Charles Bates is an internationally known consultant and lecturer in the fields of organizational development, leadership, stress management, and holistic personal growth. He is on the faculty and serves as Chairman of the Board at Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He is a member of NTL, the National Training Laboratories, and has served as faculty of the University of Minnesota.
A yoga practitioner and teacher for over 30 years, he has studied in India, Nepal, and the US with several yoga saints, particularly Sri Swami Rama He heads the Institute of the Himalayan Tradition in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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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