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The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul

The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul

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A guide to working through the inner obstacles of late life and embracing the spiritual gifts of aging • 2022 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award • 2022 Nautilus Gold Award • Award Winner in the Health: Aging/50+ category of the 2021 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest • Award Winner in Non-Fiction: Aging and Gerontology category of the 2021 Best Indie Book Award • Offers shadow-work and many diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, and allow mortality to be a teacher • Reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life • Includes personal interviews with prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Fr. Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof With extended longevity comes the opportunity for extended personal growth and spiritual development. You now have the chance to become an Elder, to leave behind past roles, shift from work in the outer world to inner work with the soul, and become authentically who you are. This book is a guide to help get past the inner obstacles and embrace the hidden spiritual gifts of age. Offering a radical reimagining of age for all generations, psychotherapist and bestselling author Connie Zweig reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life, attune to your soul’s longing, and emerge renewed as an Elder filled with vitality and purpose. She explores the obstacles encountered in the transition to wise Elder and offers psychological shadow-work and diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, reclaim your creativity, and allow mortality to be a teacher. Sharing contemplative practices for selfreflection, she also reveals how to discover ways to share your talents and wisdom to become a force for change in the lives of others. Woven throughout with wisdom from prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Father Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof, this book offers tools and guidance to help you let go of past roles, expand your identity, deepen self-knowledge, and move through these life passages to a new stage of awareness, choosing to be fully real, transparent, and free to embrace a fulfilling late life.

Table of Contents:
FOREWORD Meeting the Shadow of Age by Harry R. Moody, Ph.D. PROLOGUE A Letter to My Fellow Travelers in Late Life INTRODUCTION Age Is Our Curriculum PART 1 The Divine Messengers 1 Aging from the Inside Out The Buddha’s Divine Messengers Rites of Passage What Is “Old?” Telling the Whole Truth When Do We Become “Old”? Aging as Fate 2 The Three Portals of Age Shadow Awareness: Portal to Depth Pure Awareness: Portal to Silent Vastness An Interview with Rabbi Rami Shapiro An Interview with Kirtan Chant Leader Krishna Das Mortality Awareness: Portal to Presence 3 Meeting Ageism from the Inside Out and the Outside In Meeting Your Inner Ageist: From the Inside Out The Dramatic Consequences of the Inner Ageist Meeting the Collective Shadow of Ageism: From the Outside In An Interview with Ageism Crusader Ashton Applewhite 4 Retirement as a Divine Messenger To Retire or Not to Retire? Retirement from the Outside In Retirement as Reinvention: Encore Careers Shadow-Work for Retirement: From the Inside Out Retirement from Clinical Practice: My Story as a Helping Professional Retirement as Spiritual Practice: From Role to Soul 5 Life-Changing Illness as a Divine Messenger From Terrible Wound to Sacred Wound Closing the Mind/Body Split Illness of the Body: Cancer as an Answer Shadow-Work for Illness: From the Inside Out Caregiving from the Inside Out Illness of the Mind: Depression or Disillusionment Illness of the Brain: Memory Loss as Epidemic Delaying Memory Loss and Enhancing Plasticity An Interview with Buddhist Psychologist Rick Hanson Illness as Spiritual Practice: From Role to Soul PART 2 Life Review and Life Repair 6 A Review of Your Lived and Unlived Life Physician Rachel Naomi Remen on Seeing Her Life with New Eyes The Ego’s Life Review: What Was Expressed The Shadow’s Life Review: What Was Repressed An Interview with Father Thomas Keating, Founder of Centering Prayer 7 Emotional and Creative Repair to Release the Past and Live in the Present Emotional Repair: Reinventing Relationships from Role to Soul An Interview with Jungian Analyst James Hollis An Interview with Psychiatrist Roger Walsh Lost Creativity Found: The Gold in the Dark Side 8 Spiritual Repair to Reimagine Our Beliefs and Reclaim Our Practices Shadow-Work for Spiritual Disillusionment Spiritual Work: Reclaiming Our Practices PART 3 From Hero to Elder 9 Elder with a Thousand Faces What Is an Elder? Becoming an Elder: A Rite of Passage An Interview with Ron Pevny, Founder of the Center for Conscious Eldering Letting Go: Inner Work for Resistant Heroes Meeting the Inner Elder: An Initiation New Beginnings: Reimagining the Elder from the Inside Out An Interview with Mythologist and Storyteller Michael Meade An Interview with Poet, Novelist, Activist Deena Metzger An Interview with Jungian Analyst Lionel Corbett Honoring One of My Elders: Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman 10 Elder Wisdom and the Call to Age into Awakening The Final Divine Messenger: The Monk’s Call to Awaken Awakening into Higher Stages of Awareness What Is Wisdom? Transmitting Wisdom to Future Generations An Interview with Integral Philosopher Ken Wilber An Interview with Mystic Robert Atchley An Interview with Buddhist Teacher Anna Douglas 11 Elder Activism and the Call to Serve Something Larger than Ourselves The Call to Sacred Service and Elder Activism The Shadow Side of Service Heeding the Call or Denying the Call: Inner Work for Resistant Elders An Interview with John Sorensen, Founder of Elders Action Network An Interview with Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, Former Abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles Conscious Grandparenting: Caring for the Souls of Our Young Ones Climate Change: Collective Mortality Awareness PART 4 Life Completion 12 Moving toward a Completed Life An Interview with Altered States Pioneer Stanislav Grof An Interview with Transpersonal Psychologist Frances Vaughan 13 Reimagining Death as the Last Rite The Shadow Knows: Its Secret Preparation for the End An Interview with Spiritual Teacher Mirabai Bush, Coauthor with Ram Dass EPILOGUE A Legacy Letter to the Grandchildren Acknowledgments APPENDIX A Shadow-Work Handbook for Aging Consciously Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781644113400
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
  • Publisher Imprint: Park Street Press,U.S.
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 562 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1644113406
  • Publisher Date: 28 Oct 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Shifting from Role to Soul
  • Width: 152 mm


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