Echoes of silence : listening to soul, self, other

Meditation - Jo Ann Hansen Rasch. Introduction - Ursula Wirtz and Stacy Wirth. Silence, presence, and witness in psychotherapy - Lionel Corbett. An exploration of silence in Christian mysticism: with the desert fathers, the gospel of Thomas, and Meister Eckhart - Dariane Pictet. The silence of "God" - Bernard Sartorius. Silence is unbearable: make more noise! - Allan Guggenbuhl. The legend of the wandering Jew: pilgrimage and embodied spirituality - Waltraud Korner. John Cage: sound, silence, synchronicity - Craig E. Stephenson. Shameful hush: breaking the conspiracy of silence - Lucienne Marguerat. Synopsis: rowing for tranquility in times of burnout - Ingela Romare. Synopsis: listening to the unconscious--listening to the ancestors, about the archetypal roots of Jungian psychology - Peter Ammann

'...the authors listen for the textures of silence emanating from sources as varied as the analytic consulting room, dream, fairy tale, the music of John Cage, the activities of wandering and rowing....readers of this volume are invited to "...watch patiently the silent happenings of the soul," realizing that, "the most and best happens when it is notregulated from outside and above."'

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