The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Sacred Psychology by Jean Houston

The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Sacred Psychology Reviews

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  culley

  The author of this book has tapped into unusual realms consciousness and she has mapped out paths so we can follow her. I do not think I would explicitly work through all her examples, but I do think there is much to be gained in including something related to all the elements she has found to be critical. Kinesthetic awareness, imaginal thinking, compassion for the self, the importance of story, and recovery from heartbreak and betrayal is a great recipe for growth. The chapter on Rumi is excellent.
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  Jaime Louise

  Love her guidance.
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  Sheila

  I read this as a library book in 1993. Great retelling of Psyche and Eros story. Yesterday I heard 2 storytellers retell Psyche and Eros and the memories flooded back
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  Michael Simsa

  Perhaps I am too skeptical to benefit from these ideas, but I am certain that in-person seminars would be a far more effective medium than reading this book alone.
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  William Crosby

  A series of guided exercises/imagery to supposedly bring you into touch with the universe and others and self.
  
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  Erica Jones

  I read the section "The Sacred Wound" (pp. 104 - 9) because the concept has so influenced the ecopsychology of Bill Plotkin (Soulcraft, Nature and the Human Soul). Houston seems to use a special psychological cipher, though it is not impenetrable and I made sense of this section without fully taking in her schematic of the psyche. I thoroughly appreciated her thoughts on betrayal and the role of wounding in coming to consciousness and into communion with a world much larger than one's own self.
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  Marita

  When my marriage was collapsing around a very nasty betrayal, a friend sent me this book. There is no better guide through the morass of heartbreak and betrayal than this book. It takes a perilous passage and guides you through it. It enables you to be ennobled by suffering, not diminished.