Rituals for living and dying : from life's wounds to spiritual awakening

Foreword by Stanley Krippner.

Foreword - Stanley Krippner. Authors' preface. Part 1 - Rituals for living and dying: one family's experience - Peg Elliott Mayo. Part 2 - Cultivationg an empowering mythology for confronting death - David Feinstein. A spiritual crisis and a reappraisal of life and death. Rituals and rites of passage. Creating an empowering mythology for living and dying. Getting started: your images about death and its meaning. The first stage: rattling your system of death denial. The second stage: transcending the fear of death. The third stage: a confrontation between the fear of death and images of transcending death. The fourth stage: toward a renewed mythology about death. The fifth stage: bringing your renewed mythology about death into life. Part 3 - The alchemy of transmuting grief to creativity - Peg Elliott Mayo. A personal philosopher's stone. Loss as alchemical fire. The path toward creative transmutation. Trust in a larger plan. Expressive grief work. Rituals for transmuting grief to creativity. Chaos to creativity: an opportunity for spiritual awakening

'Building upon the fact that facing death frequently leads to a deepened connection with one's spiritual foundations, the authors offer a series of brilliantly crafted exercises for imaginatively grappling with the facts of life and death. The power, ingenuity, and depth of these structured experiences distinguish the work as unique in its field. The book is also wise and humorous, sad and uplifting, captivating and helpful.' --Foreword

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