The book The Women Who run with Wolves is known as a key, a way into yourself , like EE breathing it accesses a part of you, and makes you able to look at your life, and see the patterns and behaviours that have controlled you.
One of the ways this book works is by the use of stories and tales, by conveying a message through a story we put ourselves into, and become part of the story, one of those characters, rather then detaching and the subject being outside ourselves.
We also enter the story through the door of inner hearing, it is said that the ear has 3 or more different pathways to the brain. One pathways was said to hear the mundane conversations of the world, the second apprehended learning and art, and the third existed so that the soul itself might hear guidance and gain knowledge.
Early on in the book Clarissa Pinkola Estes discusses The Bones of a Story and how her research and studies of myths, fairy tales and folklore over the past 50 years have taught her to be able to see the structure of a tale and where the bones are missing. Over time, wars and religious conversions have been ways of sanitizing old texts, altering the original core, shifting the meaning, and in so doing losing their power, truth and integrity that was intended. It is as though a thread that is fundamental to the pattern of a story has been removed, but a shadow remains , a faint outline of the intended structure , with the true thread in place the full force of the tale hits home, jolting us awake, as our perspective reassesses. We often see this reflected in films, were the story from a book has been over sentimentalised and a contrived happy ending is created. All resonance of the truth of the story is gone, and in our hearts and in our intuitive side we know this, and it makes us feel like a piece of the puzzle is missing or wrong.
Depending on our different life-experiences, each and every one of us will be affected by the various tales in this book. Sometimes the impact of a story will be particularly strong.
The vast majority of reviews on the book are consistent in there positive and enthusiast responses. It is an inspirational book that can benefit you, throughout your life, young or old, male or female. You also don’t have to have read Jung or have a great background in psychoanalysis, but what you do have to do is engage, do not be passive and weak and expect answers to be given away . This is not a self help book to follow the steps one by one and you will be healed. This book won’t do the work for you, it is about learning to understanding yourself and others, so that you can see the pitfalls and situations of life and engage once more.
Just remember this is only the start.
One of the ways this book works is by the use of stories and tales, by conveying a message through a story we put ourselves into, and become part of the story, one of those characters, rather then detaching and the subject being outside ourselves.
We also enter the story through the door of inner hearing, it is said that the ear has 3 or more different pathways to the brain. One pathways was said to hear the mundane conversations of the world, the second apprehended learning and art, and the third existed so that the soul itself might hear guidance and gain knowledge.
Early on in the book Clarissa Pinkola Estes discusses The Bones of a Story and how her research and studies of myths, fairy tales and folklore over the past 50 years have taught her to be able to see the structure of a tale and where the bones are missing. Over time, wars and religious conversions have been ways of sanitizing old texts, altering the original core, shifting the meaning, and in so doing losing their power, truth and integrity that was intended. It is as though a thread that is fundamental to the pattern of a story has been removed, but a shadow remains , a faint outline of the intended structure , with the true thread in place the full force of the tale hits home, jolting us awake, as our perspective reassesses. We often see this reflected in films, were the story from a book has been over sentimentalised and a contrived happy ending is created. All resonance of the truth of the story is gone, and in our hearts and in our intuitive side we know this, and it makes us feel like a piece of the puzzle is missing or wrong.
Depending on our different life-experiences, each and every one of us will be affected by the various tales in this book. Sometimes the impact of a story will be particularly strong.
The vast majority of reviews on the book are consistent in there positive and enthusiast responses. It is an inspirational book that can benefit you, throughout your life, young or old, male or female. You also don’t have to have read Jung or have a great background in psychoanalysis, but what you do have to do is engage, do not be passive and weak and expect answers to be given away . This is not a self help book to follow the steps one by one and you will be healed. This book won’t do the work for you, it is about learning to understanding yourself and others, so that you can see the pitfalls and situations of life and engage once more.
Just remember this is only the start.
