odajnyk - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T02:10:42Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/odajnykGathering the Light this Winter Solstice - Remembering V. Walter Odajnykhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/gathering-the-light-this-winter-solstice-remembering-v-walter2013-12-21T08:00:00.000Z2013-12-21T08:00:00.000ZFisher King Presshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/FisherKingPress<div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=90" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/thumb/9781926715551.jpg" alt="9781926715551.jpg" /></a></div><div>by Dennis Patrick Slattery</div><div><br /> As I finish reading Walter Odajnyk's <i><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=90" target="_blank">Gathering the Light</a></i>, I see a very synthetic imagination at work to bring the reader closer to what unites rather than separates Eastern and Western thought on meditation, the mystical and the means to unite the two ways the soul may engage spirit. At the same time, his book offers a short course on C.G. Jung's ground-breaking thought on the soul inhabiting all things of the world. Lost in our ADD-oriented culture is the art and practice of meditation, not just on matters of the spirit but on the everyday matters we contend with, often on the fly, fast and loose, with little due regard for consequences. Perhaps the president of the United States should include on his board of advisors a resident meditator; that person's task would be to slow down the processes that can have as their consequences war, ignoring the most in need, loss of a sense of fair play, justice denied and oversights that can diminish the earth's richness. Is this a spiritual book? Yes and no. Its wide range and depth of perception on the spiritual body can be appropriated on a number of levels to coax the reader into living a fuller and more deeply attended life.</div><p></p><p></p><p><b>Remembering V. Walter Odajnyk</b><br /> <b>April 10, 1938 - May 22, 2013</b><br /> Walter Odajnyk was a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and a member of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California as well as a core faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of <em>Jung and Politics: The Political and Social Ideas of C.G. Jung</em>; <em>Gathering the Light: A Jungian View of Meditation</em>, and <em>Archetype and Character: Power, Eros, Spirit and Matter Personality Types</em>. Grateful to be the publisher of <em>Gathering the Light: A Jungian View of Meditation</em>, Fisher King Press plans to keep Walter Odajnyk's light shining for years to come.<br /></p><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left;"><div style="margin:0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/">www.fisherkingpress.com</a></span></b></div></div></div>Gathering the Light: A Jungian View of Meditationhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/gathering-the-light-a-jungian-view-of-meditation2011-10-15T20:59:05.000Z2011-10-15T20:59:05.000ZFisher King Presshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/FisherKingPress<div><div style="clear:both;text-align:center;" class="separator"><a style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;" href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90"><img width="135" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MXdYQXGE0Z8/Tpnw-fXPQ3I/AAAAAAAAAsA/qVNddRxitVI/s200/9781926715551.jpg" height="200" border="0" alt="9781926715551.jpg" /></a></div><div><img width="1" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" height="1" border="0" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" />Another New Fisher King Press Jungian psychological publication!</div><p></p><b><i><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90">Gathering the Light: A Jungian View of Meditation</a></i></b><br /><br />by V. Walter Odajnyk<br /><br />Foreword by Thomas Moore<br /><br />Publication Date Dec 10, 2011 - <a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90">Advance Orders</a> Welcomed. Also available from the Pacifica Graduate Institute Bookstore.<br /><br />Originally published by Shambhala in 1993, <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Gathering-Light-V-Walter-Odajnyk/dp/1926715551?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwmalcolmclc-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">Gathering the Light</a><img width="1" style="border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" height="1" border="0" alt="ir?t=wwwmalcolmclc-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1926715551" /></i> is a significant contribution to Jungian psychology and to research concerning the relationship between psychological and spiritual development.<br /><br />Gathering the Light remains a groundbreaking work that integrates Jungian psychology, alchemy, and the practice of meditation. It is one of very few, if not the only Jungian book that demonstrates that the alchemical opus is not only an analogy of the individuation process, but also a depiction of various experiential stages encountered in the course of meditation.<br /><br /><i><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=90">Gathering the Light</a></i> compares Western and Eastern images of the goal of alchemy and of meditation practice; it offers a psychological interpretation of the Zen Ox Herding pictures; it argues that in essence both psychological and spiritual development consists of the withdrawal of projections; and the appendix offers a critique of Wilber’s mistaken view of Jung’s conception of archetypes and provides a critical review of Thomas Cleary’s translation of <i>The Secret of the Golden Flower</i>.<br /><br />About the Author<br />V. Walter Odajnyk, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, and serves as a Core Faculty member and is the Research Coordinator for Pacifica Graduate Institute's Mythological Studies Program.<br /><br />Product Details<br />* Paperback: 264 pages<br />* Publisher: Fisher King Press (Dec 2011)<br />* Language: English<br />* ISBN-10: 1926715551<br />* ISBN-13: 978-1926715551<br /><br /><a style="clear:right;display:inline;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;" href="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/"><br /><img name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" style="display:block;height:100px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin-top:0px;width:110px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_66tG-ibjAoU/StmAZLTraMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kmBy84VNLJ8/s200/fkplogo110x100.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393483198773291202" border="0" alt="fkplogo110x100.jpg" /></a>Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting-Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.<br /><ul><li>International Shipping.</li><li>Credit Cards Accepted.</li><li>Phone Orders Welcomed. 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