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Living in Uncertainty, Living with Spirit

By: John C. Woodcock

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Living in Uncertainty, Living with Spirit

By: John C. Woodcock

Our ancestors lived in a world saturated with spiritual significance. Unusual events occurring within the contingencies of life were easily comprehended in terms of spiritual reality (the work of the gods for example) and the future was generally pictured in terms of the "after-life". People could thus feel a measure of security in their present circumstances and some certainty about their future. In contrast, our ordinary existence today seems bereft of any spiritual significance, generating insecurity in our lives and uncertainty in the face of what has now become an unknown future. In this series of essays, the author describes unusual events in his own life that he chose to follow, or act upon. In so doing, he slowly discovered that a certain kind of non-random event can be a hint of unknown futures seeking to unfold into existence. These essays together form the outline of an art form, or method for proceeding from personal insecurity and uncertainty towards comprehension of the spiritual significance lying within ordinary life.

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1475958196

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Making of a Man

Initiation Through the Divine Mother

By: John C. Woodcock

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Making of a Man

Initiation Through the Divine Mother

By: John C. Woodcock

In 1982 I was travelling in a suburban train between Boston and New York. I suddenly felt a stirring at the base of my spine and a trickle quickly turned into a rush of energy moving upward. Another will seemed to be working within me and I felt a mandate to shift my posture. Feeling awkward and embarrassed I assumed a lotus posture in the public carriage and waited for the next event. A flood of blissful fluid rushed up my spine emerging out of my heart. My journey with Kundalini had begun which would dominate and shape my life for the next twenty years. Making of a Man is a personal disclosure. Dr. Woodcock tells for the first time those intensely intimate experiences with Kundalini (the divine mother) that both deconstructed his personality and transformed it. The content of the book may look like poetry but in fact is the residue of a poesis, a making. These word forms are virtually unedited since the time he wrote them down during a long period of ecstatic vision. This book is thus the record of an intense sustained spiritual process during which Dr. Woodcock reached a region of reality where he experienced the love, power and wisdom of the creative word. What was spoken thus became so! A man was transformed and an aspect of spirit incarnated.

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1475950446

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Ur-Image

By: John C. Woodcock

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Ur-Image

By: John C. Woodcock

This is the story of four young friends whose routines are disrupted one day by an intrusion of four possible futures into their Present, thus shaping their lives over time, and finally becoming their actual future, but in ways that none of them could have predicted. The making of this book reflects a similar process in the author. A possible future, in the shape of a dream, intersected with the author's Present, and his life began to alter in quite unexpected ways, as the dream slowly manifested into what became, finally, his actual future, the record of which is this story! Thus the author of MANIFESTING POSSIBLE FUTURES: a new genre of literature future explores an art form which reflects the psychological process by which it comes into being in the first place.

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1475996918

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Transformation of the World

By: John C Woodcock Ph D

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Transformation of the World

By: John C Woodcock Ph D

Transformation of the World is an account of the author's journey through a personal psychological crisis to the discovery of a new world forming out of the future within his psyche. This new world is one born from chaos through the power of love . The reader is taken into the experiences of the author through a form of literature that may not have a name at this point in time. It is a form of writing that flowed spontaneously from the author's hand The process involves memories of a kind of dual consciousness, interweaving of past present and future, inner and outer reality, along with philosophical thoughts expressed in direct speech which came to the author quite spontaneously. All these elements are brought to life in the adventures of the purely literary figures, David and Master John while the narrator is John, the author. Each character leads a separate life but are they really separate? The reader will discover the truth at the very end (from the Preface). "I prepare you for a ride with this book. It begins swiftly, and doesn't let up" (from the Foreword by David Tresemer, Ph.D.)

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1440143862

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Animal Soul

By: John C. Woodcock Ph. D.

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Animal Soul

By: John C. Woodcock Ph. D.

In this book the author seeks to comprehend what possible meaning such a term as animal soul could have today given the psychological distance from our own animal nature, existing as we do within a technological civilization. He explores the thought of four pioneers in depth psychology: C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Wolfgang Giegerich, and Russell Lockhart, before proposing a meaning that emerges from soul as understood from within a depth psychological perspective.

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1475950659

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9781475950656

Making New Worlds

The Way of the Artist

By: John C. Woodcock

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Making New Worlds

The Way of the Artist

By: John C. Woodcock

Imagining this or that future as a way of generating hope and "hopeful action", far from moving us towards any desired outcome, is simply occluding our eyes from the reality that is right in front of us, daily. Our time is incredibly uncertain and our lives are dominated by catastrophic thinking, with fear more and more determining out real actions and outcomes, on the local or world scale. If we finally drop all pretense that hope can have any bearing on the future, we must then face the level of fear running freely through world affairs today and equally we must face the fact that predictability is impossible in regards to the future. Under these circumstances we can ask: is there any adequate way of addressing the future at all: a way that does not blind us to the fearful realities of our times; a way that does not address the unknown future in terms of predictability or hope; a way that nonetheless may indeed help prepare the unknown future? There is, and I will call it the way of the "artist". From the Introduction

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1491717777

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The Coming Guest and the New Art Form

By: John C. Woodcock

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The Coming Guest and the New Art Form

By: John C. Woodcock

This book is an expanded edition of my book, The Coming Guest: Advancing Jungs Augury into the 21st Century (2011, iUniverse) in which I examine three documents of the soul: a little-known high relief carving at Bollingen c.1960, along with two letters Jung wrote. In these documents I detected the presence of two Jungs. One is the depth psychologist whose legacy has developed into a discipline of psychology of the soul, with its methodology. The other is the artist who has left us a hidden legacyone that has remained virtually unnoticed for fifty years. This legacy also has a methodologyone very different from that of depth psychology. In this edition I begin the task of articulating the methodology of the art form that Jung inaugurated. Both depth psychology and this new art form remain faithful to Jungs notion of the soul as world-constituting, or as Jung says in his letter to Sir Herbert Read, the coming guest. Where depth psychology seeks to bring the coming guest into consciousness, the new art form seeks to bring him into incarnation!

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1491732660

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Overcoming Solidity

World Crisis and the New Nature

By: John C. Woodcock

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Overcoming Solidity

World Crisis and the New Nature

By: John C. Woodcock

We know that today we are divorced from nature to a degree that is threatening our existence. We also know that those sensual animal qualities that characterized our existence, when we were embedded soulfully in nature, have departed and we long for their return We appear to be in a soul process of overcoming solidity and entering a new status of soul-word in which the animal, the sensual, and the wild are indeed returning, but at a totally new and unheard-of level of complexity in consciousness. From the Introduction

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1475983778

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Manifesting Possible Futures

Towards a New Genre of Literature

By: John C. Woodcock

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Manifesting Possible Futures

Towards a New Genre of Literature

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If the present alienation of mind from nature, i.e., the Cartesian reality principle, is to be overcome, there surely must be a climate of extreme depression amounting in many quarters to despair One way or another there is an opportunity here for a good writer who should fill out in terms of concrete events and experiences the issues If a society is really faced with startling changes and fairly imminent ones (and there is a good deal of evidence that ours is) it cannot be amiss for a few people here and there to be peering ahead, however inadequately, by way of preparation for them. Owen Barfield: The Coming Trauma of Materialism

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Book's by John C. Woodcock

Living in Uncertainty, Living with Spirit

Living in Uncertainty, Living with Spirit

Making of a Man

Making of a Man

Ur-Image

Ur-Image

Transformation of the World

Transformation of the World

Animal Soul

Animal Soul

Making New Worlds

Making New Worlds

The Coming Guest and the New Art Form

The Coming Guest and the New Art Form

Overcoming Solidity

Overcoming Solidity

Manifesting Possible Futures

Manifesting Possible Futures

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