Helen M. Luke (1904–1995)
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Helen M. Luke was born in 1904 in England. She received a Master's degree in French and Italian literature from Somerville College, Oxford. Twenty years later, she became interested in the work of C. G. Jung and studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich. After moving to the United States in 1949, she toon meer established an analytical practice in Los Angeles, then in 1962 founded the Apple Farm Community in Michigan toon minder
Werken van Helen M. Luke
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On: The Autobiography and Journals of Helen M. Luke (2000) 23 exemplaren
Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine 5 exemplaren
Through defeat to joy: The novels of Charles Williams in the light of Jungian thought (1980) 5 exemplaren
The Way of Woman : Ancient and Modern 1 exemplaar
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At the Table of the Grail: Magic and the Use of the Imagination (1984) — Medewerker — 107 exemplaren
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1904
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1995
- Geslacht
- female
- Geboorteplaats
- England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Opleiding
- Jung Institute
- Beroepen
- psychologist
psychoanalyst - Relaties
- Johnson, Robert A. (colleague)
- Organisaties
- Apple Farm Community (Three Rivers, Michigan, USA)
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The Voice Within: Love and Virtue in the Age of the… door Helen Luke
Love, Marriage, Prayer
The writer believes modern women need to regain an understanding of the feminine nature.
Shakespeare's The Tempest. Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot. The Odyessy.
All provide clues as to the questions we must answer as we age. The last chapter on suffering took a different bent. When we suffer for the sake of love, or offer it for love, there is some action at the heart of life. Etty Hillesum would agree.
All provide clues as to the questions we must answer as we age. The last chapter on suffering took a different bent. When we suffer for the sake of love, or offer it for love, there is some action at the heart of life. Etty Hillesum would agree.
Helen Luke writes in depth on her inner journey. I was often left wondering what exactly was going on in her life. I found her sharing of her dreams and what they meant to her to more than make up for the lack of physical details. I see her dedication to the truth within and the way she was led and it has given me a nudge to listen more deeply myself.
The autobiography is written well and is interesting. The second part of the book is excerpts edited from 20 years of her journals right up until she died. I found myself unable to understand what I was reading and skimmed through them. Near the end I found two things that touched me:
"Fully awake, the association came. The Dalai Lama: 'My religion is simply kindness', Jung: 'In the abysmal darkness of the unknown God I found a great kindness.' Is the Guru now to be found inside and outside, beyond duality?"
At the end of a poem "Blow then, ye winds, the colors on their course, The rainbow's end is in the rainbow's source."… (meer)
The autobiography is written well and is interesting. The second part of the book is excerpts edited from 20 years of her journals right up until she died. I found myself unable to understand what I was reading and skimmed through them. Near the end I found two things that touched me:
"Fully awake, the association came. The Dalai Lama: 'My religion is simply kindness', Jung: 'In the abysmal darkness of the unknown God I found a great kindness.' Is the Guru now to be found inside and outside, beyond duality?"
At the end of a poem "Blow then, ye winds, the colors on their course, The rainbow's end is in the rainbow's source."… (meer)
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