Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on: The Autobiography and Journals of Helen M. Luke - Hardcover

Luke, Helen M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0930407474 ISBN 13: 9780930407476

Publisher: Parabola Books, 1999

Synopsis

The first half of the book, Luke's autobiography, begins with her earliest recollections and ends at the age of seventy. She weaves together dreams and symbolic images from her inner life with personal and world events, bringing a clear, unsentimental honesty and vibrant insight to all that she recounts.
Luke's diaries, forming the second half of the book, are selections from fifty-four volumes of journals written during her final years. They further explore the mythic images and stories of her life's dream work. She focuses her attention on numinous realms of the psyche, expanding upon the themes of her autobiography: the relationships of masculine and feminine natures, the liberation of the Self from the bonds of the ego, and the alchemical mystery of becoming who we truly are.

About this title

Review:

"The publishing of the autobiography and journals of one of the century's wise women is an occasion for celebration." -- Jean Houston, author, A Mystic Life

About the Author:

Helen M. Luke was born in England in 1904. In mid-life she studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich and then established an analytical practice with Robert Johnson in Los Angeles. In 1962 she founded the Apple Farm Community in Three Rivers, Michigan, "a center for people seeking to discover and appropriate the transforming power of symbols in their lives." Helen Luke was the author of four other books, including Old Age, a classic text on how to age wisely. She died at Apple Farm in 1995.

About this edition

• Publisher: Parabola Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0930407474
• ISBN 13: 9780930407476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 267
• Editor: Mowat Barbara A