The Pregnant Darkness

Author : Monika Wikman
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0892545690
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pregnant Darkness written by Monika Wikman and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, psychologist, and astrologer Monika Wikman has worked for decades with clients and their dream symbols and witnessed the presence of the divine hand at work in the psyche. In The Pregnant Darkness, Wikman shows readers that the best way to cope with their darkest hours is by fostering a connection to the deeper current of life, those mysteries that give life form and meaning. Wikman's analysis of dream material leads readers into a practical explanation of alchemical symbolism. Far from being a quaint, ancient practice, The Pregnant Darkness shows that alchemy is at work in contemporary, everyday life. Alchemical symbolism, properly understood, can be applied to unraveling the meaning of visions in meditation, active imagination, and dream work. Wikman shows how readers can participate in the divine energies to help miraculous changes occur in their lives. Wikman writes: "In Greek mythology, Pegasus, upon taking to the air, pushed hard with a back hoof and penetrated the earth. A spring rose up where his hoof dashed the earth, and in this hole . . . the muses reside. One of the roles of the "religious function" of which Jung speaks is to bring us toward that inner spring of the muses where something beyond ego resides, instructs, and inspires. Like a hole created from Pegasus' leaping foot, contact with this inner spring often entails a crack in our field of ordinary consciousness. In the inner world, the spring of living symbols and accompanying presences is the source of dreams and visions, as well as the fountain of inspiration at the heart of poetry, art, ritual, mythology, and even religion."

Author : Claire Vaye Watkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593330226
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness written by Claire Vaye Watkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, VOGUE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NPR, ESQUIRE, AND KIRKUS “There’s some kind of genius sorcery in this novel. It’s startlingly original, hilarious and harrowing by turns, finally transcendent. Watkins writes like an avenging angel. It's thrilling and terrifying to stand in her wake.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse—one woman’s furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband and their baby daughter, a writer gets on a flight for a speaking engagement in Reno, not carrying much besides a breast pump and a spiraling case of postpartum depression. Her temporary escape from domestic duties and an opportunity to reconnect with old friends mutates into an extended romp away from the confines of marriage and motherhood, and a seemingly bottomless descent into the past. Deep in the Mojave Desert where she grew up, she meets her ghosts at every turn: the first love whose self-destruction still haunts her; her father, a member of the most famous cult in American history; her mother, whose native spark gutters with every passing year. She can’t go back in time to make any of it right, but what exactly is her way forward? Alone in the wilderness, at last she begins to make herself at home in the world. Bold, tender, and often hilarious, I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness reaffirms Watkins as one of the signal writers of our time.

Author : Beth Kanell
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076363719X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkness Under the Water written by Beth Kanell and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, sixteen-year-old Molly lives under the shadow of a governor who wants to sterilize people "unfit to be true Vermonters," such as her Abenaki family, while the loss of her family home, her mother's pregnancy, her first love, and other events transform her life.

Author : Richard B. Knight
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500397333
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkness of the Womb written by Richard B. Knight and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want a dark fantasy novel that will both chill you and make you think, then look no further than The Darkness of the Womb!Read the book that Kirkus Reviews calls "like life itself: messy, painful and chaotic, yet laced with love and compassion." Marigold Haunt wanted nothing more in life than to get pregnant, and at the age of 49, she finally gets her wish. But inside her mind and body, chaos wreaks havoc, as her baby, who is the future messiah of the world, doesn't want to be born. Meanwhile, Lords Imagination and Logic, who are constantly at war within the universal mind, are fighting over the future of the baby. Now, only Marigold can decide her child's ultimate fate by journeying inside his subconscious and convincing him to want to live. ***Warning: this book contains graphic language and mature situations. Not intended for young adult readers.*** Praise for The Darkness of the Womb An impressive first foray into the realm of dark fantasy. - Kirkus Reviews Its suspenseful and thought-provoking storyline makes THE DARKNESS OF THE WOMB an exciting and thoughtful read for those who enjoy quests set in the landscape of the human mind with unique and unexpected protagonists. - Indiereader.com Scroll up and grab a copy today.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0441478123
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Left Hand of Darkness written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-03-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Author : Elizabeth Hoyt
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455508314
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord of Darkness written by Elizabeth Hoyt and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT He lives in the shadows. As the mysterious masked avenger known as the Ghost of St. Giles, Godric St. John's only goal is to protect the innocent of London. Until the night he confronts a fearless young lady pointing a pistol at his head-and realizes she is his wife . . . BECOME LOVERS . . . Lady Margaret Reading has vowed to kill the Ghost of St. Giles-the man who murdered her one true love. Returning to London, and to the man she hasn't seen since their wedding day, Margaret does not recognize the man behind the mask. Fierce, commanding, and dangerous, the notorious Ghost of St. Giles is everything she feared he would be-and so much more . . . DESIRE IS THE ULTIMATE DANGER When passion flares, these two intimate strangers can't keep from revealing more of themselves than they had ever planned. But when Margaret learns the truth-that the Ghost is her husband-the game is up and the players must surrender . . . to the temptation that could destroy them both.

Author : Andrea Claudia Hoffmann
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590518500
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gift from Darkness written by Andrea Claudia Hoffmann and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram. When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed when she discovers she is pregnant. But her joy is short-lived: Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Brutally abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers have in store for her. She finds herself alone in the world and fears her life is over. For two months, Patience hides her pregnancy while facing the brutalities meted out by Boko Haram. By the sheer force of her determination to protect her baby, she and her child are able to survive. Now, she has entrusted journalist Andrea C. Hoffmann with her story, a powerful first-person account of Boko Haram's atrocities in Nigeria and Cameroon. One of the first testimonies on the terrorist group's war crimes in Western Africa, A Gift from Darkness poignantly shows the human toll of a crisis that demands attention.

Author : Anne Frasier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451412478
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden of Darkness written by Anne Frasier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Burton, expectant mother and the town medical examiner, finds her plans of leaving Tuonela, Wisconsin, thwarted by a killer who, skinning his victims, is rumored to be linked to the Pale Immortal, a legendary vampire, while the father of her child succumbs to madness. Original.

Author : Nancy Swift Furlotti
Publisher : Fisher King Press
ISBN 13 : 1926715896
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream and Its Amplification written by Nancy Swift Furlotti and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Dream and Its Amplification' unveils the language of the psyche that speaks to us in our dreams. We all dream at least 4-6 times each night yet remember very few. Those that rise to the surface of our conscious awareness beckon to be understood, like a letter addressed to us that arrives by post. Why would we not open it? The difficulty is in understanding what the dream symbols and images mean. Through amplification, C. G. Jung formulated a method of unveiling the deeper meaning of symbolic images. This becomes particularly important when the image does not carry a personal meaning or significance and is not part of a person's everyday life. Fourteen Jungian Analysts from around the world have contributed chapters to this book on areas of special interest to them in their work with dreams. This offers the seasoned dream worker as well as the novice great insight into the meaning of the dream and its amplification. Contributors to this edition of the Fisher King Review include: Erel Shalit, Nancy Swift Furlotti, Thomas Singer, Michael Conforti, Ken Kimmel, Gotthilf Isler, Nancy Qualls-Corbett, Henry Abramovitch, Kathryn Madden, Ron Schenk, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Christian Gaillard, Monika Wikman, and Gilda Frantz.

Author : Ari Heinze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982554340
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darkness Gathers Round written by Ari Heinze and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Ilohan told Veril she could return to him when the moon waned out, but now the horde of Vadshron the Zarnith -- the greatest army the world has ever seen -- separates them. Nevertheless, Veril sets off across the desert alone. Ahead of her, Ilohan leads his army of reluctant allies towards the place where they hope to stop the Zarnith, if they fight with superhuman strength and if they reach it in time. Far behind Veril, wounded Jonathan's life hangs in the balance. Yet even if he recovers, will joy or hope ever again touch his heart? Veril's brother Brogal sets out in pursuit of her. Will he catch her before the Zarnith? What is his plan if he does? Even if Veril reaches Ilohan, can she do anything more than die with him? The charge of the Zarnith warriors cannot be broken -- but if it is, legend says they will call up a winged creature of darkness that will bring dreadful death on them and on their enemies alike. Vadshron has promised to destroy not only Ceramir and Karolan but Norkath as well. Can any courage prevail against this apocalyptic threat? - Back cover.