The Life of the Spirit: In the Convergent Points of Dreams, Spirituality and Psychology - Paperback

by Rev Dr Eleonora V. Marinaro (Author)

DREAMS SPIRITUALITY PSYCHOLOGY

For a long time I studied psychology and Spirituality interface, overlap and border each other as disciplines on the path to healing, wholeness and transformation. My own model and theory evolved out of this process. My doctoral dissertation and this book are products of this process.

I found that the theory of Carl G. Jung with its goal of Individuation and The Illuminative Way, with its goal of transformative Union had clearly identifiable stages and that the stages are Interchangeable. For Jung the process consists of, Awakening, Confrontation with the Shadow, Persona, Ego, and later the animus/anima, being integrated into the conscious personality. This process consists of deaths, rebirths, depressions, losses, mourning, deconstruction of defenses and eventually the birth of the new self, which functions in service to the higher Self.

The stages of the Illuminative Way are Conversion, Purgation, Darkness, Illumination, Dark Night of the Senses, Dark Night of the Soul and Union Dreams are pure products of the unconscious uncensored in symbolic form. Convergent dreams inform and direct both of these paths. Jung Believed that humanity must individuate one person at a time and that the cumulative effect would benefit all in the evolution of consciousness.