Circling to the Center: Invitation to Silent Prayer - Hardcover

Tiberghien, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1630517410 ISBN 13: 9781630517410

Publisher: Chiron Publications, 2019

Synopsis

A luminous spiritual memoir inviting the reader to the practice of silent prayer. Rooted in her Judeo-Christian tradition, author Susan Tiberghien welcomes the wisdom of other traditions and calls us to embrace our shared humanity.

In this 20th Anniversary Edition, Tiberghien writes an Afterword to update her journey, opening the confines of her own darkness and finding atonement in the natural world and in the presence of Sophia, the ‘hidden wholeness’ of creation.

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About the Author

Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a degree in Literature and Philosophy and did graduate work at the Université de Grenoble and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. She is the author of four memoirs: Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center, One Woman's Encounter with Silent Prayer; Side by Side, Writing Your Love Story; Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman, two writing books: One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft, and Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung, and most recently, the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center, An Invitation to Silent Prayer. She has also published extensively narrative essays in literary reviews and anthologies. For over twenty years Tiberghien has been teaching creative writing at C.G. Jung Societies, the International Women's Writing Guild, and at writers' centers and conferences, both in the U.S. and in Europe. Her online courses, "Journaling to the Soul, Keeping Our Own Red Books" and "Seeing Beauty with Words, Awakening the Soul" are posted at the Jung Society of Washington DC. She is a founding member of the International Writers' Residence at the Château de Lavigny and an active member of International PEN. Tiberghien founded and directed the Geneva Writers' Group (230 English-language writers) for 25 years. Married with six adult children, sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. www.susantiberghien.com

Review

"In Circling to the Center, Susan Tiberghien provides a persuasive model of how in times of personal and cultural confusion, one may recover a psychospiritual locus, a center which holds amid change, ambiguity, distraction. Her book is an aperture to that inner world which, inexplicably, links us to the larger mysteries in which we also circle at all times."

-James Hollis, Jungian Analyst, Author of Living an Examined Life, Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey

"Susan Tiberghien invites the reader onto the path of silent prayer to the bedrock of the Self, to the spheres beyond the ego. She presents a refreshing and profound approach with an irresistible resonance of authenticity. This book offers what every soul is yearning for: her own path to silence and all that lies there. A must for every seeker of the deeper Self."

-Patricia Elwood, Jungian Analyst, Author of A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing, A Window on the Soul

Edition details

• Publisher: Chiron Publications
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1630517410
• ISBN 13: 9781630517410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 166