Running into Myself

A Journey through the Soul of the Feat

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• Publisher: Matador
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781848769687
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Biografías de ciencias sociales

While celebrating her 26th birthday, Thea listens on as her thirty-something friends discuss their lives. Their conversation leads her to realise she's been drifting through life and hasn't grown up. In addition, she can't tell where she ends and her mother begins. The realisation gradually takes its toll and several months later, she's diagnosed with depression. Refusing medication, she leaves her soul-constricting job and pursues a more meaningful path. Along the way she discovers spirituality - in particular, Japanese Energy healing - but with a fragile sense of Self, lacks the confidence and belief required to cross the threshold to a new life. Instead, she unquestioningly accepts others' views on life and slides back into a mundane existence. Three years later a terrifying nightmare provides another wake-up call. This time with no game plan, she sells her house, leaves her 9-5 job and embarks on a relationship that takes her to Santa Fe (US). Once there, she encounters several mentors who introduce her to Jungian psychology, Greek mythology, BodySoul work, fairytales, folk tales and alchemical symbolism. Soon after, overweight and unable to run more than a few metres at a time, she impulsively signs up for three marathons - New York, Rome and Athens - with the first only months away. What unfolds over the next eighteen months is an inspiring rite of passage into conscious womanhood: an unintentional pilgrimage healing old wounds, and a revelatory experience with her deep Self. The book is a personal narrative accompanied by examinations of myth and depth psychology, in which life illuminates ancient tales and archetypes find form in modern experience.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Preface (Return with the Elixir)
• The Anarchy of Menarche
• Take it Like a Man
• Border Crossings
• Unconscious Femininity
• Circle of Care
• The Greek Pantheon
• The Myth of Persephone and Demeter
• Persephone (the Good Girl)
• Never-Never Land
• The Descent to Hades
• The Light-bulb Moment
• What’s the Matter with You?
• Nigredo (the Blackening)
• Albedo (the Whitening)
• Rubedo (the Reddening)
• Hero’s Journey
• The Lost Symbol
• The Hermetic Recluse
• Meeting with the Mentor
• Animal Medicine
• Initiation
• Refusal of the Call – Part II
• Meeting with the Mentor – Part II
• Message in the Music
• Golden Slumber
• Driftwood
• A Change of Address
• Déjà Vu
• Humpty Dumpty Cracks Up
• The Dissolution of Lot’s Wife
• Urban Deva
• Food Complexities
• Perspiration, Inspiration
• Barefoot Doctor
• La Dolce Vita
• Supernatural Aid
• Treebeard and the Alchemist
• Through the Looking Glass
• The Devil on Your Back
• White-Clad Daughters of Necessity
• Follow the White Rabbit
• Meeting in the Woods
• This is Aphrodite Calling...Pick Up
• In for a Penny, In for a Pound
• The Dull Alchemist
• Balancing Heaven with Earth
• Descent to Ereshkigal (Pool of Tears)
• The Archer’s Ambivalence
• Severance
• Symplegades and the Three Magi
• I’ll Huff...
• Indra’s Net
• Tunnel Vision
• ...And I’ll Puff
• Separation from the Mother
• ...And I’ll Blow Your House Down!
• Empire State of Mind
• Crossing of the First Threshold
• The Long Good Friday
• Stopped Dead in My Tracks
• Belly of the Whale
• The Painted Desert
• The Handless Maiden
• The Poor Bargain
• Blood Sacrifice
• Road as Teacher
• Yet Another Mentor
• Eisik’s Dream
• Dream Catch Me
• Sacred Marriage
• Don’t Cry for Me Albuquerque
• Living on a Prayer
• Journey to the Apple’s Kore
• Road of Trials
• Baptism by Fire
• The Seal of the Virgin of Light
• White Foliated Earth
• The Soul of the Feat
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Island of Apples
• Mother India
• Defining Moments
• Holy Cow!
• The Constellation of Artemis
• Meeting with the Goddess
• Life’s a Beach
• The Sea Whisperer
• Out of the Frying Pan
• Towards the Within
• Bhakti
• The Rose Gives Honey to the Bee
• Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book
• You Cannot Be Sirius!
• Song of Sophia
• Come Tenderness
• Tell Me About the Forest (You Once Called Home)
• All Roads Lead to Rome
• Luck Be a Lady
• Nadir
• The Carnival is Over
• Loving the Skin You’re In
• Staying Overlong
• Radical Ritual
• Silver Trembling Hands
• The Tempting of Eve
• Zephyrus
• Solitary (On the Feet of One’s Soul)
• Gods Above, Spirits Below
• Atonement with the Father
• It’s All Greek to Me!
• Just Follow the Yellow Brick Road
• Golden-Heated State
• The Awakening of a Woman
• The Pathless Path
• Solve et Coagula
• With Love and Thanks
• Selected Bibliography