Blue Fire (Hillman) Discussion Group

Gang, I need to get the list of books to you that are "in play" at the moment. The 6-book decision space here is not meant at this time to narrow, but on the contrary to spark more ideas. The only intent driving this list is to tilt towards a more "Yin" orientation, since Hillman will have occupied us for two years. Book 6 was recommended today, and others should feel free to do so, too. 

Our last involvements with female analysts were with Marion Woodman and Marie-Louise von Frantz. The sheer list of male Jungian scholars swamps our ability to incorporate their opuses, so again the intent is to balance voices in a fundamental dimensio

Here goes: 

1. Patricia Berry, Echo's Subtle Body

- Archetypal Psychology through an embodied "lens"

2. Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted

- no rationale needed

3. June Singer, Androgeny: the Opposites Within

- Singer proposes a range of choices by which people can identify themselves, secure that the masculine/feminine interaction within each individual is not only normal, but the dynamic factor in their wholeness.

4. Linda Leonard, Witness to the Fire

- The Founders thought enough of this Jungian Analyst to designate her as the second major presenter (after Anthony Stevens!) to the Maine Jung Center over 25 years ago; this was the subject of her talk on Addiction and Creativity after her book was published.

5. Gertrude Müller Nelson, Here All Dwell Free

- a Robert Johnson-style decomposiition of two myth-legends to plumb the depths of the "feminine principle" in all of us

6. Gary S. Bobroff, Crop Circles, Jung, and the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine

- More on the latter than the former