{"product_id":"9781630513665","title":"Corpus Anima: Reflections from the Unity of Body and Soul","description":"\u003ci\u003eCorpus Anima\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of previously published essays written for professional \u003cbr\u003e Jungian journals about the unity of psyche and soma, spirit and matter, body and soul. There\u003cp\u003eare also two chapters of more personal reflections, previously unpublished, including a series of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earticles on the mid-Atlantic Azorean Archipelago. The essays on psyche and soma come from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe direct experience of their unity. We live, life moves, at the confluence of these polarities of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espirit and matter, body and soul, where through the capacity to hold contradiction and paradox\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe can become whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded in this collection is a published essay (Routledge) on the Portuguese poet and writer, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFernando Pessoa (1888-1935). His particular paradoxical expression of the soul and its life in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe world is radically inspiring. The lines below are written on his tomb in Lisbon, resting in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esame national monument with Vasco de Gama (c. 1460s-1524), world oceanic explorer. Pessoa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas an explorer of inner worlds. He is, posthumously, a national treasure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am nothing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI shall always be nothing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI cannot want to be anything. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I have in me all the dreams of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCedrus Monte, PhD, is a Jungian Analyst, graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland\u003cbr\u003e (1995) where she now resides. She is originally from Northern California. Her roots lie there, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeven her heart; but even deeper roots, soul roots, lie in the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous island regions of Portugal. An uprooted wanderer of many lands, she has grounded herself as much as possible in the one constant earth, the body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chiron Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054974517488,"sku":"9781630513665","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781630513665_p0.jpg?v=1763670442","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781630513665","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}