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    The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection
    The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection
    The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection
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    The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection

    By Joseph L Henderson and Maud Oakes

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    SHAMAN AND SERPENT

    In the tradition of Jungian analysis, a psychiatrist and an anthropologist explore the meanings and manifestations of death through ritual, religion and myth.

    The knowledge that he must die is the force that drives man to create. The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exists universally in man’s experience, exemplifying the death of the Self and a rebirth into a transcendent, “unknowable” life.

    In The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection, first published in 1963, the authors trace the images and patterns of psychic liberation through personal encounter, the cycles of nature, spiritual teaching religious texts, myths of resurrection, poems and epics. They translate these elements of common human experience into a them for modern man: the reinterpretation of the individual freed from the mortal boundaries of the Self.

    First published in 1963, this classic work in analytical psychology includes notes on the illustrations, appendix and references.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBorodino Books
    Release dateJun 28, 2017
    ISBN9781787205581
    The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection
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    Joseph L Henderson

    DR. JOSEPH L. HENDERSON (August 31, 1903 - November 17, 2007) was an assistant clinical professor of neuropsychiatry at Stanford Medical School and a director of academic studies for the Society of Jungian Analysts of San Francisco. He was educated at Princeton University and then took a medical degree at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, in 1938. He was the American vice-president of the International Society for Analytical Psychology and lectured at the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. He practiced psychiatry and Jungian analysis in San Francisco. Henderson died in 2007 aged 104. MAUD OAKES (May 25, 1903 - June 1990) was an artist, ethnologist and writer who spent her life studying comparative religions, mythology and symbolism, and recording the indigenous cultures of Native American tribes, including the Navajo of the American Southwest and the Mam of Guatemala. She was born in Seattle and grew up in New York City, where she attended Miss Chapin’s School, graduating in 1922. She was the author of When the Two Came to Their Father, Beauty Way, The Two Crosses of Todos Santos and Beyond the Windy Place—Life in the Guatemalan Highlands. Oakes died in 1990 aged 87.

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      Sometimes, the whole is less than the sum of its parts.This is, ultimately, two books, one on psychology by Joseph Lewis Henderson and one on mythology by Maud Oakes. The latter is supposed to provide support for the former, but it can be read on its own.I'm not sure the former can be read at all, at least by ordinary mortals. Certainly it struck me as simply bizarre. Too many dreams, too little analytical data, and too few suggestions for something useful. To be sure, I'm not a psychologist. I picked up the book hoping it would help me to understand why people seem to be attracted to a certain type of story. I was looking specifically at tales with some similarity to what Joseph Campbell called "the monomyth." You won't find it here.I was eventually reduced to skimming the psychology section, desperately looking for something that made sense. I never did.The mythology section is better. I wish it had more background information, and I would quibble with the selection. But at least it gathers quite a few myths on topics such as resurrection. For that, it's a useful book. So I'd give the myths section perhaps three and a half stars (a good folklorist could surely have done better). The other gets at most two.If you still want to read it, I'd suggest trying the myths first; they might make it easier to understand the other.
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      Will be interesting to fans of mythological studies.

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