Healing the Wounded God: Finding Your Personal Guide on Your Way to Individuation and Beyond

by Jeffrey Raff and Linda Bonnington Vocatura

Through their work with their clients, their own experiences, and studies in myth, mysticism, and alchemy, the authors have traced the emergence of a new spiritual paradigm in which the divine seeks wholeness through and with us. Many of us are having experiences that bring us in contact with a being who seems to exist independently in the realm beyond the psyche, or what the authors term the psychoid. This being, the ally, challenges and helps...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089254063X
• ISBN13: 9780892540631
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Nicolas-Hays
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent development from Raff's "Alchemical Imagination"

I read Healing the Wounded God after I read Raff's Alchemical Imagination and loved it. Even as an intermediate reader of Jungian/post-jungian work, I had never come across the idea that the divine is as wounded an entity as the individual. Such a possibility fascinated and excited me; opening up a whole new way of thinking! Having encountered an ally figure early in my life, I enjoyed reading about the differences between 'angels' and 'the Ally'. The only real problem I had with the book was that the collaborating authors do not say which of them wrote which chapter. Since both writers have their own distinct stories and experiences, this became VERY confusing and convoluted the whole book.

Heavy Stuff...

I've just started reading this book and have toexpress the fact that it starts out from the beginning with a very heavy concept to digest.I don't feel that this book is for someone who'snever read Jung or studied alchemy. I'm only a beginner at psychological alchemy. Maybethis is why it seems so "heavy". I'm enjoying the book, so far, but I have to readit slowly and only digest a few pages at a time.Maybe as the book goes on I'll be able to takeit in faster, but, the beginning of it throws thereader right into the alchemical theory that itswriters have come up with through their studies.It's all very interesting, and wrote well.I just don't think this book would be good for someone not familiar at all with Jung and alchemy.If you're just now starting, look for a more basicbook on the subject. Try Thom F. Cavalli'sbook entitled "Alchemical Psychology: Old Recipes forLiving in a New World".If you are familiar with this subject, you'll probablylove this book.I will report back at a later date, when I have finished this book, and expand on this basic review.For now, 4 stars!Peace!