Marion Woodman

A Series of Sacred Reminders for Women Access to brilliant insights. From the writings of Marion Woodman and the mind of Jill Mellick, this book is a combination of moving words and beautiful artwork. In her previous landmark works such as Addiction to Perfection, Woodman captured the attention of half a million readers who found sustenance in the feminine wisdom she had to offer. By integrating Woodman's words into prose poems, Mellick adds an additional...

We are each crowned twice in this lifetime, teaches the legendary Jungian analyst Marion Woodman. Much is written about the promise of the first crowning, at birth. But what of the second, which comes only after a lifetime of experience? This is the "crown of age," she says, a symbol for the culmination of our inner and outer development as human beings. On The Crown of Age, Woodman examines what it means to pass through life's many crossroads and...

Through case studies, dreams, and myths, a Jungian analyst explores the hidden causes of compulsion in the lives of men and women. At the root of eating disorders, substance abuse, and other addictive and compulsive behaviors, Woodman sees a hunger for spiritual fulfillment. The need to experience a sacred connection to an energy greater than their own drives people to search for an illusory ideal of perfection. Through discussions of parenthood,...

Woodman shares her story of "dying into life" through cancer. These quiet years allowed Woodman to delve deeper into her "bones" and gain insight into concepts of co-dependence, life transitions, addiction, spiritual practice, and surrendering. "I no longer waste my time with people who are into judgement and blame...their game is power, and my game is love."

Woodman believes that facing the intense power of your own heart is the only way to truly connect with other living things. She says we must not be "afraid of the intensity of opening ourselves to our real personhood." Her insight in analyzing ancient folk tales and applying them to current events is intriguing. She will inspire you to get out of your soul's way.

A Course in Miracles says that this world and every aspect of it got started when the Son of God remembered not to laugh. What we failed to laugh at is the joke which is ourselves. Now, however, you can have a true experience of metaphysical mirth, you might even, yourself, achieve full realization.

Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national bestseller, poet, storyteller, and translator Robert Bly tells us that we live in a “sibling society, “ in which adults have regressed into adolescence and adolescents refuse to grow up. We are proud to present a previously unreleased lecture featuring both Marion Woodman and Robert Bly on the...

Woodman uses dreams, symbols and body imagery to reach into the shadows of the unconscious mind and cast light on our everyday lives.

"We're all on a journey. The journey started in love... and will, ultimately, finish in love. Between the beginning and the end, though, we have to walk through pain. We're faced with challenges and obstacles that test our patience and our wits. These tests truly become the measure of who we are." In this program Marianne examines why we sometimes journey so far from the love where we begin, and discusses what we have to do and overcome in order to...