Initiation and the Soul: The Sacred and the Profane

By Michael Meade

Using traditional myths, Meade shows the three steps of initiation: separation, ordeals, and the conscious return to community. Initiation is the way the soul grows and finds its unique project in life. Initiation requires both ascents and descents, climbing the ladders of wisdom, and descending to the depths of love and healing. Through the dual lenses of myth and depth psychology, initiation becomes the ideal context for understanding anxiety and addiction, death and divorce, illness and healing.

In this study of the "awakened soul" imagination becomes the essential power which can turn painful traumas and twists of fate from victimization to initiation.

Themes Include: Three Steps of Initiation • Birth of the Elder; Ordeals that Made Me • Sacred Means Healing and Dangerous • Walking the Holy Hills •The Story of Poder • Encounters with Power

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