Kaleidoscope, the way of woman and other essays, Helen M. Luke

Kaleidoscope, the way of woman and other essays, Helen M. Luke 

At an age when most people would be thinking about retirement, Helen M. Luke embarked on two new careers, helping found the Apple Farm Community, a retreat and study center near Three Rivers, Michigan, and simultaneously making her debut as a writer, drawing on a lifetime of spiritual and psychological counseling. These essays, published over the past three decades, show the breadth of Luke's experiences as a Jungian psychologist, lecturer, and author. The collection is divided into three sections, indicative of three main streams in Luke's own thinking: her distinctive viewpoint as a woman who has lived through and observed every decade of the present century; the importance of Anglo-Catholicism as a touchstone for responsibility and discrimination in her search; and her lifelong love of examining the world's great literature as a route towards knowledge.

Helen M. Luke's ideas are often iconoclastic to contemporary attitudes of sexual politics, religious dogma, and literary interpretation: her approach is individual and unique, rigorous and refreshing, as she combines these three paths - the way of woman, the way of discrimination, and the way of story - into a kaleidoscope of the inner journey so necessary to us all.

Helen M. Luke was born in England in 1904. She received a Masters degree in French and Italian literature from Somerville College, Oxford. Twenty years later, she became interested in the work of C.G. Jung, and studied his thought in Zurich and London. Arriving in the United States in 1949, she established a practice as a counselor in Los Angeles. In 1962, she helped found the Apple Farm Community near Three Rivers, Michigan, which has been described as a "center for people seeking to discover and appropriate the transforming power of symbols in their lives." Her writings include Old Age: Journey into Simplicity and Dark Wood to White Rose (a study of Dante's Divine Comedy), both for PARABOLA Books, and Woman: Earth and Spirit-The Feminine in Symbol and Myth (Crossroad).

Cover: Stained glass window from the Church of Santa Chiara in Assisi, Italy photo: Painton Cowen); and woman's face from the west wall of the Temple of Jupiter in the Archaeological Museum in Olympia, Greece (photo: Emile Saraf, Athens). Cover design by: James Sarfati

Details

• Hardcover with dust jacket (fair) - 1992 Edition 
• ISBN: 9780930407247 - 0930407245
• Condition: Very Good 
  
• Publisher: Parabola Books