The Life of the Spirit by Rev. Dr. Eleonora V. Marinaro, published by Outskirts Press

The Life of the Spirit

In The Convergent Points of Dreams, Spirituality and Psychology

by Rev. Dr. Eleonora V. Marinaro

The Life of the Spirit

In The Convergent Points of Dreams, Spirituality and Psychology

by Rev. Dr. Eleonora V. Marinaro

Published Dec 14, 2010
181 Pages
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Genre: PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology

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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.

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Rev. Dr. Eleonora V. Marinaro

Recommendation: “Dr. Marinaro’s work embodies a comprehensive study of the Analytical Psychology theory of Carl G. Jung, and the mystical path of the Illuminative Way tradition of the west. Her sources include St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, Evelyn Underhill, and Benedict Groeschel and others. After extensive study in Jungian theory, dreams and schools of spiritual direction she began to explore the parallels in growth encountered by the sincere seeker whether going through the stages of the psychoanalytic process or the stages of spiritual development. She discovered that dreams played a significant role. Her book is not solely derived from “living among books” but, through application of what she has learned. She herself was the primary subject as she participated in her own analysis and spiritual direction. In her work as a Spiritual Director, Jungian therapist and facilitator of Dreamwork groups. In a Dreamwork group dreams are explored as the vehicle that brings unconscious material to conscious awareness. Thus, the life of the spirit is seen to flow albeit under different names, lifting the seeker into higher dimensions of authentic personhood and transformative union with God. Her unique contribution lies in succinctly pointing to dreams as the convergent points between the two disciplines.” – Ann V. Graber, Ph.D.