Kaleidoscope : The Way of Woman and Other Essays

by Helen M. LukeEdited by Rob Baker

• ISBN13: 9780930407247
• ISBN10: 0930407245
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Morning Light Pr

Summary

At an age when most people would be thinking about retirement, Helen M. Luke embarked on two new careers, helping found the Apple Farm Community, a retreat and study center near Three Rivers, Michigan, and simultaneously making her debut as a writer, drawing on a lifetime of spiritual and psychological counseling. These essays, published over the past three decades, show the breadth of Luke's experiences as a Jungian psychologist, lecturer, and author. The collection is divided into three sections, indicative of three main streams in Luke's own thinking: her distinctive viewpoint as a woman who has lived through and observed every decade of the present century; the importance of Anglo-Catholicism as a touchstone for responsibility and discrimination in her search; her lifelong love of examining the world's great literature as a route towards knowledge. Luke's ideas are often iconoclastic to contemporary attitudes of sexual politics, religious dogma, and literary interpretation: her approach is individual and unique, rigorous and refreshing, as she combines these three paths — the way of woman, the way of discrimination, and the way of story — into a kaleidoscope of the inner journey so necessary to us all.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Acknowledgements	p. 5
Prelude: The Bridge of Humility	p. 7
The Way of Woman
The Perennial Feminine	p. 13
Demeter and Kore	p. 16
Eowyn	p. 33
Orual	p. 43
Dindrane	p. 73
Brunhilde	p. 90
The Cat Archetype	p. 104
The Way of Discrimination
The Secret and the Open	p. 113
Choice	p. 120
The Sense of Humor	p. 123
The Joy of the Fool	p. 135
Pride	p. 139
Exchange	p. 147
Levels	p. 153
Inner Relationship and Community	p. 157
The Marriage Vow	p. 166
The Voice Within	p. 170
The Mystery Within	p. 175
The Vows of the Interior Life	p. 180
Courtesy	p. 190
The Stranger Within	p. 195
The Way of Story
The Inner Story	p. 205
An African Tale	p. 207
The Hunter and the Hunted	p. 213
Salmon Fisher Boy	p. 218
The Story of Jacob	p. 224
The Story of the Exodus	p. 237
The Story of Saul	p. 258
The Little Prince	p. 266
The Novels of Charles Williams	p. 276
Postlude: Christmas, 1962	p. 321
Postlude: Christmas, 1991	p. 323
Glossary	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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