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This treasure of a fairy tale is a story of your own transformation. Psychologists, sprirtual leaders, and change experts highly recommend this book as an "enlightening, shocking, insightful, penetrating, and delightful" interpretation of the classic fairy tale which will get us into partership with our dark side and send us on to spiritual development. Pigs Eat Wolves has been widely used as a resource for change and leadership by city governments from Florida to Alberta, and by individuals all over the globe. It has won several awards including publishing's Distinguished Service Award for its wide range of influence and its contribution to understanding difficult areas of human relationships.
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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.
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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.
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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- PublisherYes Intl Pub
- ISBN 10 0936663243
- ISBN 13 9780936663241
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
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