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Book SynopsisIn Western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human ""nature."" This book uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection, and often breakdown.
Trade ReviewIn Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land, Rinda West suggests that the recovery of connection with nature may be tied to a rediscovery of the numinous. Together, these may nourish and grow from new attempts to restore wildness to the land and to psyche. If you want to know what ritual is about, how it isolates and bridges people, communities, and cultures, and of its power to bring about war and peace, healing and harmony with the earth, this is the book to read. - Jerome S. Bernstein, Jungian analyst, author of Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma
