Jack and Jaquelyn: An Adventure in Evolutionary Intimacy - Softcover

Zimmerman PhD, Jack; McCandless MD, Jaquelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493752286 ISBN 13: 9781493752287

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

“Jack and Jaquelyn” (J&J) is an intimate relationship memoir about a mature couple told in a story form. The narrative follows Jack and Jaquelyn during the decade of their seventies, through an initiatory near-death experience into a deepening exploration of intimacy as a path of awakening. To round out the story there are flashbacks to earlier adventures of struggle and accomplishment. The book describes the possibilities of mature intimate love, the ultimate inseparability of sexuality and spirituality, the connection between sexuality and healing, and ways to embrace the mystery of death through sexual intimacy. Other themes that thread their way through the stories include: · Leaving the old patriarchal paradigm behind to evolve a new consciousness of love in which intimate relationship is a path of awakening to the divine · Creating a mythology of relationship that supports the deepening of sexual intimacy · The empowering of the divine feminine in our culture and the magic of “woman flesh” · How love and sexuality are evolving now---tangibly · How men become truly authentic, competent lovers · How nature affects the intimacy between lovers The book is novelistic in style and perhaps best characterized as a lyrical cinematic description of the explicit erotic adventures of a couple in their golden years that sees intimacy as an inseparable part of the current evolutionary awakening. One of the book’s deepest intentions is to support a growing culture in which the sharing of relationship stories becomes a primary practice for both couples and singles exploring the path of intimacy. The authors have come to believe that evolution is to be a co-created phenomenon among humans and the natural forces of life. It follows that the context for this process has to be something shared by all peoples more or less independently of their cultural, racial, religious and economic backgrounds. It would seem that intimate relationships---with nature and between peoples---are the most universal candidates to provide the fertile ground for such an evolutionary awakening. Touching the divine in this way is an experience that eventually can be shared in groups that develop appropriate practices (that is already happening) and eventually expand to the interactions among groups and communities (just beginning to happen). In this way a new vision of intimacy can be seeded in the mainstream culture. Prospective readers include: · Mature couples and individuals seeking more intimate relationships · Individuals and couples open to deepening their sexual practices · Women on the path of empowerment · Men who are ready to become lovers as a primary identity · Psychologists, particularly those working with couples · Evolutionists, mythologists and those theologically inclined who seek to transform the old religious and cultural paradigms through a co-creative evolutionary process.

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About the Author

Originally trained as a mathematician (BA, MA and PhD from Yale, Harvard and University of Southern California, respectively) Jack Zimmerman is a writer, relationship counselor, elder in the expanding community of council practitioners and an intrepid practitioner of transformational intimacy. He was the President of the Ojai Foundation from 1991-2007 and retired as Board Co-Chair in January of 2008 after many years of serving in that capacity. In 2000 in Co-Founded the Ojai Foundation’s Center for Council Training in order to more effectively bring council into the mainstream in the US, Israel and more recently, Africa. Jaquelyn McCandless, (BS, University of Chicago; MS and MD, University of Illinois) is a board-certified psychiatrist, creative aging specialist, and an irreverent explorer of sexual alchemy. When her granddaughter, Chelsey, was diagnosed with autism in 1996, Jaquelyn embraced medicine in a new way and over the years became a world-renowned specialist in the biomedical treatment of autism. Her widely read book on the subject has been translated into several languages. For many years she was a member of the Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) Leadership Council and a regular contributor to DAN and other scientific meetings. For almost forty years Jack and Jaquelyn have been offering a variety of relationship workshops and trainings in the US and abroad---all the while loving and inspiring each other as they explore the inseparability of sexuality and spirituality. They have traveled to Israel several times since 2005 to lead trainings for couples and council practitioners, and to support the growing use of council in that country. Jaquelyn has championed the use of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) in the treatment of autism and other auto-immune illnesses and, with Jack, has been actively involved in a medical research project in Mali that involved the use of LDN to help HIV positive individuals from developing AIDS symptoms. Their other books include: Flesh and Spirit: The Mystery of Intimate Relationship, Jack Zimmerman and Jaquelyn McCandless, Bramble Books (1998) The Way of Council, Jack Zimmerman (with Virginia Coyle), Second Edition, Bramble Books (2009) Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jaquelyn McCandless, Fourth Edition, Bramble Books (2009)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1493752286
• ISBN 13: 9781493752287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408