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“Women Who Run With The Wolves,” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
“Contacting The Power Of The Wild Woman.”
“Stalking the Intruder: The Beginning Initiation.
Bluebeard.
In a single human being there are many other beings. All with their own values, motives and devices. Some psychological technologies suggest we arrest these beings, count them, name them, force them into harness till they shuffle along like vanquished slaves.
But to do this would halt the dance of wildish lights in woman’s eyes…rather than corrupt her natural beauty our work is to build for all these beings a wildish countryside wherein the artists among them can make, the lovers love, the healers heal.
But what shall we do with those inner beings who are quite mad and who carry out destruction without thought? Even those must be given a place, though one in which they can be contained. One entity in particular, the most deceitful and most powerful fugitive in the psyche requires our immediate consciousness and containment – and that one is the natural predator.
While the cause of much human suffering can be traced to negligent fostering, there is also within the psyche naturally an innate contra naturam aspect, an “against nature” force.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With The Wolves
p35-36.
Don’t worry! It sounds quite scary but CPE uses storytelling and jungian analysis quite beautifully to teach the way through and the way back to Love.
This is a really beautiful book for women.
On the cover Alice Walker says it’s “A gift of profound wisdom, insight and love.”
How True.
♥Ali