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Vol 8 No 2 · Winter 2001

Spirit and Essence

Contributors

Arnold Mindell · Sara Halprin · Lee Spark Jones · Jan Dworkin · Pierre Morin · Lily Vassiliou · George Mecouch · Amy Mindell · Julie Diamond · Rhea Shapiro · Gary Reiss · Christopher McMullen · Stephen Schuitevoerder · Ingrid Schuitevoerder

Articles in this issue

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    When Words (nearly) Fail Us

    Language intrigues us by promising to clarify the obscurely paradoxical world of human experience. Because of its power to explicitly…

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    How Elephants Rock “n” Role

    Arnold Mindell

    Peace is not God’s gift to the human race, it is our gift to one another. --Ellie Wiesel In the Spring 2001 (Volume 8, Number 1) edition of…

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    So Much Depends on a Red Hook

    Sara Halprin

    Writing and Sentience Dreaming is the energy behind everything; it is the life force of all living beings, the power of trees and plants…

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    Not Knowing

    Lee Spark Jones

    Psychotherapists commonly work under the pressure to know. They are expected to be empathic experts, knowledgeable professionals. Yet many…

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    The Hollow Bone

    Jan Dworkin

    Introduction I was thrilled when Jan Dworkin, my partner and main muse, asked if she could interview me about my artwork for this issue of…

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    Asclepius’ Rod

    Pierre Morin

    Context of the Discourse about Health The concept of health is, as Hannah Arendt said about words in general: “something like a frozen…

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    Mauthausen

    Lily Vassiliou

    This is a personal account of my experience of a seminar conducted by Drs. Amy and Arnold Mindell to process a part of world history. This…

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    A Night in Jung’s Alembic

    George Mecouch

    Tao’s working of things is vague and obscure, Obscure! Oh vague! In it are images, Vague! Oh obscure! In it are things, Profound! Oh dark…

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    How to Build a Taoist Temple

    Arnold Mindell, Amy Mindell

    Once upon a time there were four Taoists who had nothing much to do. Each lived in a different part of town. Without the ability to call…

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    A Democracy Dialogue

    Julie Diamond

    The year I was 16, the United States pulled out of Vietnam. In my English class we were reading the anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun. One…

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    Noticing the Spirits in Everyday Life

    Rhea Shapiro

    I dream I am standing in darkness far above the street on a wide stone plaza. It is open and spacious. I feel something at my knee. I look…

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    Shamanism, Process Work, and Extreme States

    Gary Reiss

    I believe that extreme and unusual states of consciousness can be transformed so the emergence of their energy and inspiration benefits not…

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    About the Art

    Christopher McMullen

    Christopher McMullen I, like most people, am very visual. In school I was captivated by drafting, and for a long time wanted to be an…

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    Dissertation Abstracts

    Pierre Morin, Stephen Schuitevoerder, Ingrid Schuitevoerder

    Rank and Salutogenesis: A Quantitative and Empirical Study of Self-Rated Health and Perceived Social Status Pierre Morin, M.D. Union…