Friday, May 29, 2009

The writings of Helen Luke

If you have not yet discovered Helen Luke, you have a rare treat in store.

Helen Luke who was trained in the work of Carl Gustav Jung, came to live at Apple Farm in Three Rivers, Michigan in 1962. All of her books and writings, articles, and interviews are listed on the Apple Farm website along with several essays which can be downloaded. I highly recommend everything she has written and would be hard put to even list favorites. Her biography, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made Of and the video "A Sense of the Sacred" are excellent. She possessed a deep understandings of symbolism and meaning and had a beautiful gift for expressing this with clarity and grace. Below are just a few more titles:

Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Transformation in Dante's Divine Comedy
The Inner Story: Myth and Symbol in the Bible and Literature
Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays
Old Age: Journey into Simplicity
The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine (Book Review at http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com)
Woman Earth And Spirit: The Feminine in Symbol and Myth