The Liminal and the Luminescent: Jungian Reflections on Ensouled Living Amid a Troubled Era - Hardcover

by Terrill L. Gibson (Author), John Allan (Foreword by)

Our world is bathed in ongoing biological, political, cultural, climate, and spiritual crises that seem endless. If anything, these disruptions appear to be spiraling into ever larger threat fronts that challenge our survival as a species. Carl Gustav Jung, renowned Swiss psychiatrist, avowed in his archetypal psychology that there is a portal of transforming possibility if we have the courage to enter that doorway. That threshold entering demands that we embrace our individual and collective sufferings and then seek the path of meaning and destiny that is always resident deeply at the core of such trauma. This book narrates how this destiny is found and lived forward for both each individual life and for our varied human cultures. It affirms and gives examples of the deep-soul dimension of life that lies under the often chaotic surface--the liminal realm of animate and guiding dream, vision, myth, and spirituality where the gods meet us so that we all can find our mutual way Home. This liminal world is navigated through the metaphoric and literalness of pilgrimage, performance, and political processes in our personal and cultural lives. What might be your path of destiny?

Author Biography

Terrill L. Gibson is a diploma Jungian analyst, diplomate pastoral psychotherapist, and an approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

He lectures and writes widely on the basic theme of the integration of psychotherapy and spirituality. He has been a frequent consultant, faculty, supervisor, and facilitator for a variety of universities, social service agencies, corporations, and religious congregations. He has a passion for film, sea kayaks, and the blues.