Old Age Journey into Simplicity Helen M. Luke ISBN: 9781584200796 Book (Paperback) Lindisfarne Books $16.95 5½ x 8½ inches 132 pages April 2010

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“Better to spend a day meditating on a single page of her writing than to read a stack of books on enlightenment.” —Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Planets Within “Helen Luke is a unique voice that carries beautiful passion, feeling, and clarity. She is clearly one of our most precious national treasures.” —Helen Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves Quick now, here, now, always— A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) —T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding In this classic text on aging wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, as well as devoting attention to suffering. In examining some of the great masterpieces of literature produced by writers at the end of their lives, she elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating, encouraging the reader to grow emotionally and mentally during the culminating stage of life. Contents: Foreword by Thomas Moore Introduction by Barbara A. Mowat The Odyssey King Lear The Tempest Little Gidding Suffering Helen M. Luke (1904-1995) was born in England. In midlife, she studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich, then moved to the U.S. and established an analytical practice with Robert Johnson in Los Angeles. In 1962, she founded the Apple Farm Community in Three Rivers, Michigan, "a center for people seeking to discover and appropriate the transforming power of symbols in their lives." In her later years, Helen Luke was the model wise woman for many people. Her final book, Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on, a memoir and excerpts from her fifty-four volumes of journals, was published posthumously. Her books include The Laughter at the Heart of Things, a collection of essays, and The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine.       See all titles by this author

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