Nancy Ryley is a Canadian filmmaker, now retired. In this book she is in conversation with Sir Laurens van der Post, Marion Woodman, Ross Woodman , and Thomas Berry about our loss of soul and its connection to our devastation of the planet. An annual volume collecting the most innovative articles published each year in the area of myth and ritual studies by the most outstanding thinkers in the field. Contributors to this first volume include Thomas Moore, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Toni Morrison, Robert Bly, James Hillman, Rita Dove, Christine Dowining, David Miller, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Marion Woodman , and Murray Stein among others. Making the transition into womanhood is a time of great potential, challenge, discovery, courage and confusion.
Girls often face the journey alone, risking their sense of self and purpose along the way.
Fundamental issues of transference and countertransference are examined in such areas as sexual acting-out, dreams, eating disorders, successful and unsuccessful interventions, borderline disorders, and psychological types. Papers by Schwartz-Salant, Woodman , Stein, De Shong Meador, and Beebe, among others. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Thomas Moore, Marion Woodman , Jack Kornfield, and Joan Borysenko, along with some of today's greatest poets, teachers, and entrepreneurs, offer a spectrum of ideas on rediscovering the soul within ourselves and the larger community.