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December 3, 2001
As incongruous as it may seem at first glance to her legions of fans, Myss, a popular intuitive healer and teacher, and the bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit, thinks it makes perfect sense to describe her approach to spirituality as that of an archetypal "Saboteur." After all, it takes a thief to catch a thief, she explains in her latest work. In her workshops and readings, she goes "on a search and destroy mission to find my students' spiritual panic.... Deep in the unconscious, our spiritual potential lies in wait for us to release it. Sometimes you will have to blow things out of your own way to get to it." Here, Myss offers her readers a new system for blowing away pedestrian notions of their purpose on the planet. She espouses the ancient notion that our souls enter into a kind of contract before birth—that we agree to have various human experiences and even (in Myss's version) to encounter certain people in order to learn lessons. The author includes a technique for arriving at 12 archetypes that rule different areas of our life—from career to sex to our highest aspirations. While each of us is controlled in different ways by four "survival" archetypes—Child, Victim, Prostitute, Saboteur—the other archetypes that flavor our relations to the world are up to us and as richly different as Vampire and Messiah. One value of Myss's ingenious system is that, like the I Ching, it teaches readers to use symbols not as one-dimensional descriptions but as a call to reflection and imagination and a means to see ourselves in a greater light. 18-city author tour.
January 1, 2002
In this follow-up to her best-selling Anatomy of the Spirit, Myss augments her work with energy chakras and thoughtfully explores the concept of symbolic archetypes (primordial governing forces of the soul) and the role they play in discovering one's true life purpose. Understanding the specific archetypal energy patterns of the self, Myss holds, contributes significantly to a person's spiritual health and planetary mission (or "sacred contract"). The author outlines the stages of a sacred contract, makes a practical comparison to an earthly (legal) contract, and ponders the use of dreams and intuition. Making this book unique are relevant exercises that can be used alone or with a chakras map and a wheel of archetypes to create working charts for everyday guidance. Although discussion of this wheel is a bit heady, a descriptive appendix of archetypes proves useful for the spiritual self-examination that Myss advocates. Reaching beyond verbal psychotherapy, this book is a sound choice for its validation of the primal energy work that must be done to transform the soul. For psychology/self-help collections of public and academic libraries. Lisa Liquori, MLS, Syracuse, NY
Copyright 2001 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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