Farming Soul
A Tale of Initiation
by Patricia Damery
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Pub Date Jul 04 2014 | Archive Date Sep 26 2014
Description
A psychological and spiritual reckoning, Farming Soul, by practicing Jungian analyst and Demeter certified biodynamic organic farmer Patricia Damery, questions theories and assumptions dating back to the early 1900's and the days of Freud, assumptions which have too often separated spirituality from psychology. Suffering the trials of her own individuation process, Patricia Damery finds answers through a series of unconventional teachers and her relationship to the psyche and to the land – answers that are surprisingly deeply intertwined.
A tightly woven tale of wisdom, insight, courage and integrity, one thread of Farming Soul is about redeveloping a relationship to the land – Mother Earth – and a path into subtle energy through biodynamic agriculture and the philosophy of Rudolph Steiner. This path contains continual echoes of Damery’s childhood on a Midwestern farm. It integrates stories from across a lifetime – six generations in working the land – and the reclaiming of her connection to the soil she inhabits.
Another thread is about Damery's professional path of becoming a Jungian analyst, a path filled with review committees and unexpected and unorthodox teachers. It offers perspective on the complicated dynamic of the therapist/patient bond and individuation, and a personal account of when one must step out on one's own.
Uniquely blending psychology, spirituality and agriculture into a soul-nourishing and thought-provoking read, Farming Soultouches upon important themes such as:
* Practical solutions involve developing spiritually
* Developing spiritually means developing tools we have latent within us along with our existing developed thinking
* We must listen to the earthWe can trust the knowledge within to take us where we need to go
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
No other book available describes so well the positive spiritual consequences when one practices biodynamic agriculture.- Hugh J. Courtney, founder of Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics, Inc. and Earth Legacy Agriculture LLC.
The intelligence of the heart magnificently rings and radiates from this story with a truth so true that it is possible to re-found one's life on it. This writing is one of the new 'world-initiation' forms.-- Robert Sardello, Ph.D., co-director of the School of Spiritual Psychology, editor of Goldenstone Press, and author of seven books, including Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness.
This is an unusual account of one individual's efforts to learn to apply a native gift for sensing the emergent irrational to the disciplines of depth psychotherapy and Native American healing. Patricia Damery's memoir details how, inspired by the experience of tending an organic farm, she learned to live with the power of this intelligence and apply it responsibly to healing endeavors. In part a cautionary tale, Damery's story reveals what can happen when professional training does not entirely validate one's natural way of using one's heart and mind. Not every therapist who reads this book will have had to take such an arduous journey to self affirmation, but to anyone in the healing professions who has wondered whether it is possible for a wounded healer to be healed, Damery's story will lend considerable comfort.--John Beebe, M.D., author of Integrity in Depth.
I can highly recommend this book not only for those in the professions of psychology and psychiatry, but also for the grower or farmer contemplating or already practicing biodynamic agriculture. No other book available describes so well the positive spiritual consequences when one practices biodynamic agriculture.- Hugh J. Courtney, founder of Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics, Inc. and Earth Legacy Agriculture LLC.
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780991309825 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
