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Living Between Worlds

Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
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Living Between Worlds by Dr James Hollis explores the unique challenges of our era, such as technological change and resource depletion, through the lens of depth psychology. Hollis argues that our true struggle lies within, as modern humans often feel disconnected from their inner guidance. By drawing on psychology, classical literature, philosophy, and myth, the book offers a path towards deeper meaning and purpose, encouraging readers to find courage and hope despite living in uncertain times.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in philosophy, psychology, and personal growth, especially those seeking profound insight into navigating inner and outer turmoil. It will appeal to those comfortable with reflective, thoughtful writing that invites deep self-examination.

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What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology.

What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology.

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What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology.

What makes the challenges of our time so unique and daunting in human history? Technology? Resource depletion? In Living Between Worlds, Dr. James Hollis challenges us to look within for the real cause. β€œFew of our ancestors, if any, became enemies of themselves as we do; few split themselves off from their internal forms of guidance,” he explains. β€œWe can serve the drives for power, wealth, status, whatever, but we cannot create meaning. Meaning is a by-product of being in right relationship to our soul.”

Dr. Hollis’s readers know him as a penetrating thinker who brings profound insight and sophistication to the inner journey. In Living Between Worlds, he broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence. This is not a journey that will yield easy answers or pat reassurances. Yet, by invoking the guidance of depth psychology, classical literature, philosophy, and myth, you will gain access to resources of purpose, courage, and hope that transcend time and circumstance. β€œWe will always live in in-between times,” Hollis teaches. β€œPerhaps we may drop our plumb line into those same guiding currents which ran through the souls of the ancients... and run through ours as well.”

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683645610

Publisher: Sounds True Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 June 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Sounds True Inc

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 167.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 382g

Pages: 184

About the Author

JAMES HOLLIS, PhD, is a Jungian analyst, a former director of the Jung Society of Washington, DC, and a professor of Jungian Studies for Saybrook University of San Francisco/Houston. He is a bestselling author whose sixteen books include Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, The Eden Project, What Matters Most, and Living an Examined Life. He lives with his wife, Jill, in Washington, DC. For more, visit jameshollis.net.

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