What does life ask of us, and in what fashion?what guiding intelligence weaves the threads of our individual biographies?what hauntings of the invisible world invigorate, in the end, James Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms―spirits, synchronicities, ancestral and parental influences, and direct the multiple narratives of daily life?In Hauntings, and if so, untold stories, dreams, inner voices, animate, impulses, how, ghosts, complexes, and how are we to answer that summons?Are we here just to propagate the species anew?Do any of us really believe that we are here to make money and then die?Does life matter, and mysteries―that move through us and through history.

He offers a way to understand them psychologically, examining the persistence of the past in influencing our present, conscious lives and noting that engagement with mystery is what life asks of each of us. He is one of our great teachers and healers. Stephen dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Chiron Publications.

From such engagements, more thoughtful, a deeper, more considered life may come. James hollis is the most lucid thinker I know about the complexities and complexes that interfere with living a full life.

Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey

An invitation to listen to your soul’s calling how do you define “growing up”? does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks—a steady income, place, marriage, paying taxes, or crisis you never foresaw or that seems at odds with your beliefs about who you are, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? If you find yourself in a career, relationship, it means your soul is calling on you to reexamine your path.

With living an examined Life, James Hollis offers an essential guidebook for anyone at a crossroads in life. Here this acclaimed author guides you through 21 areas for self-inquiry and growth, challenging you to: • recover personal authority—how to stop living in response to the expectations placed on you • Choose Meaning Over Happiness—why seeking truth instead of entertaining distractions ultimately leads to greater fulfillment • Exorcise the Ghosts of the Past That Bind You—how the voices that haunt you can lead you to grow • Bestow Love on the Unlovable Parts of You—recovering the guiding force concealed in your Shadow • Construct a Mature Spirituality—the five essential elements of integrating meaning and mystery into your life • Seize Permission to Be Who You Really Are—the challenge of fully showing up for your life With his trademark eloquence and insight, Dr.

Hollis offers living an Examined Life to inspire you toward a life of personal authority, integrity, and fulfillment. Hollis. It is my hope that this book will be a tool to recover your respect for that which abides deeply within, ” writes Dr. You will not be spared disappointment or suffering. But you can know the depth and dignity of an authentic journey, and your life will become more interesting, of being a real player in your time on this turning planet, taking you deeper than ever before.

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

In finding meaning in the second half of life, hollis explores the ways we can grow and evolve to fully become ourselves when the traditional roles of adulthood aren’t quite working for us, revealing a new way of uncovering and embracing our authentic selves. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and is rarely the respite of stability we expected.

Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the choices we’ve made, realize our limitations, and feel stuck— commonly known as the “midlife crisis. Jungian psycho-analyst james hollis believes it is only in the second half of life that we can truly come to know who we are and thus create a life that has meaning.

Offering wisdom to anyone facing a career that no longer seems fulfilling, or family transitions that raise issues of aging and mortality, a long-term relationship that has shifted, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life provides a reassuring message and a crucial bridge across this critical passage of adult development.

What does it really mean to be a grown up in today’s world? We assume that once we “get it together” with the right job, have children, marry the right person, and buy a home, all is settled and well. Finding meaning in the second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up.

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It explains their causes, symptoms, and ways of overcoming them. Finding meaning in the second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up. For anyone experiencing extreme guilt, anger, doubt, loss, grief, loneliness, depression, despair, fear, obsession, addiction, betrayal, angst or anxiety. Just keep your dictionary handy.

The book goes through every one of these topics in great detail. It explains the opportunity for growth that is inherent in our struggles, providing inspiration and hope when it is most needed. I will warn that the author uses some vocabulary that non-psychologists won't know.

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What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

Providing inspiring wisdom and personal reflections to address our deepest worries, What Matters Most yields far more than mere self-help clichés. Presenting the unique perspective of respected analyst and author James Hollis, Ph. D. What matters most helps readers learn to appreciate even be amazed by events unfolding within, even as the external world creates constant struggles.

Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, embrace growth rather than security, Hollis uses a warm, respect the power of Eros, accessible tone to encourage readers to learn to tolerate ambiguity, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality. Inner City Books. Finding meaning in the second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up.

What matters most: Living a More Considered Life. The celebrated author of finding meaning in the Second Half of Life delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path. Why are we here? what is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? To even begin to answer these questions we must start by exploring our own internal ideals, values, and beliefs.

Instead, hollis guides readers in uncovering the heart of the matter, discovering what it means to truly live life to its fullest, most meaningful state—as fully engaged citizens of the world.

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Inner City Books. Hollis offers a rich perspective on the secrets men carry in their hearts. Saturn was the roman god who ate his childern to stop them from usurping his power. Finding meaning in the second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up. Inner City Books. What matters most: Living a More Considered Life.

Men have been psychologically and spiritually wounded by this legacy.

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Inner City Books. Inner City Books. Inner City Books. What matters most: Living a More Considered Life. Author james hollis’s eloquent reading provides the listener with an accessible and yet profound understanding of a universal condition—or what is commonly referred to as the Mid-life crisis. The book shows how we may travel this Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.

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What matters most: Living a More Considered Life. Inner City Books. The text is deeply enriched by the inclusion of poems and excerpts from the works of modern writers including John Fowles, Rilke, D. H. Inner City Books. With insight and compassion grounded in the humanist side of analytical psychology, Hollis elucidates the circuitous way of individuation.

Inner City Books. Inner City Books. Finding meaning in the second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up. Lawrence, Pascal and Kierkegaard. Creating a life is a powerful series of commentaries on the importance of the examined life, illustrating how we may arrive at an understanding of our life choices and relationships by exploring our core complexes and personal history.

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Inner City Books. What matters most: Living a More Considered Life. Good book. Finding meaning in the second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up. Inner City Books. Inner City Books. Inner City Books.

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Inner City Books. Finding meaning in the second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up. What matters most: Living a More Considered Life. Here he shares our boat, navigating the questions without charts that haunt us all. Inner City Books. Inner City Books. He acknowledges the uniqueness and value of each individual life journey, sharing his personal experience only so that we can find our own understanding.

Over the years james hollis has offered us many a feast, and we have grown to appreciate the nourishment of their unique mixtures of bitter and sweet. Rather it surrenders to the questions, guided only by whatever insight, endurance and energy each of us may have. This is not a book of revealed truths. Good book.

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