About Apple Farm Community which was founded by Helen Luke:
Apple Farm in Michigan is not a "Community" in the ordinary sense of the word. It was not founded as a planned institution but came into being as a focal point for a number of women who had been drawn together already by a community of interests and values.
Feminine Resources
“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do; doing it with
your whole heart and finding delight in doing it. And this is the sense of
the sacred.”
your whole heart and finding delight in doing it. And this is the sense of
the sacred.”
—
Helen Luke | Alice O. Howell | Anne Baring | Hilary Hart
Helen Luke
These essays, published over the past three decades, show the breadth of Luke’s experiences as a Jungian psychologist, lecturer, and author. The collection is divided into three sections. Luke’s ideas are often iconoclastic to contemporary attitudes of sexual politics, religious dogma, and literary interpretation: her approach is individual and unique, rigorous and refreshing, as she combines these three paths—the way of woman, the way of discrimination, and the way of story—into a kaleidoscope of the inner journey so necessary to us all. Among the works she discusses are the biblical tales of the Exodus, Jacob and Saul, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the allegorical novels of Charles Williams.
Psychologist Luke (Old Age: Journey into Simplicity, Audio Reviews, LJ 3/15/92) sought to discover the role that stories play in our lives and interpreted their meaning through the theories of Carl Jung. Recorded shortly before her death in 1995, these cassettes offer insight into the biblical stories of Exodus, the tale of Saul, the stories of Charles Williams (Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology, Audio Reviews, LJ 7/93), and two of Luke's stories, "The Hunter and the Hunted" and "Salmon-Fisher Boy." She explores the nature and use of power, the belief that evil is necessary for redemption, and the need for balance.
(Paperback - Mar. 1, 1993)
Richly illustrated with black and white reproductions of paintings inspired by Dante’s masterpiece, Luke explores each of Dante’s poetic images, ending with the "white rose," the final emblem of joy and regeneration.
(Paperback - June 1, 2000)
Luke, who died in 1995 at age 90, is highlighted in this posthumous book--an account of her dreams and how they contributed to the unfolding of her life. The volume is divided into two parts: her autobiography, written when she was 70, is followed by selections from the handwritten diaries (54 volumes in all) that Luke kept in the final 20 years of her life and then entrusted to Barbara Mowat, director of Academic Programs at Folger Shakespeare Library (DC), to select for posthumous publication. Luke, who emigrated from England to the United States after World War II, later founded the Apple Farm Community--a center for people seeking to understand the power of symbols in their lives. She searches throughout this book for the application of symbols to her lifelong quest for understanding. Her clearly written self-analysis may be of help to readers seeking to understand their own dreams.
(Hardcover - June 1, 2001)
Essays that explore the nature of feminine and masculine psychology and the role of story and myth in human culture. Offering insight into the spiritual meaning within modern and classical literature, several previously unpublished essays are collected here-including an analysis of two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, The Merchant of Venice and Antony and Cleopatra. The title essay reflects on the vital importance of a sense of humor on the spiritual road to freedom and joy, and all combine Christian spirituality with Jungian psychology to discuss the importance of openly and consciously facing the suffering that is part of being human.
(Paperback - Feb. 20, 2001)
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 The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding," and also on 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 and encourages us to grow emotionally and mentally in this culminating stage of our own lives
The Way of Woman offers a distillation of Helen Luke's life's work as a writer, counselor, and Jungian therapist, a luminous, multifaceted reflection on the two questions that have long preoccupied her: Why do so many modern women feel so conflicted about their roles, so cutoff from sources of spiritual nourishment? More importantly, what can they do about it?.
Alice O. Howell
"What we are looking for on earth and in earth and in our lives is the process that can unlock for us the mystery of meaningfulness in our daily lives," writes Alice O. Howell. "It is the best-kept secret down through the ages because it is so simple. Truly, the last place it would ever occur for us to find the sacred would be in the commonplace of our everyday lives and all about us in nature and in simple things." Join Alice O’Howell on a magical ramble through the Celtic isle of Iona, in the Scottish Hebrides, in this deceptively simple, poetic jewel of a book. Our guide on this gentle travelogue of the soul is the Holy Sophia herself, the feminine aspect of wisdom, who teaches us to discover that the entire world is filled with outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual meaning.
Geometry is hidden in the symbolism of all religions. In this magical book, Alice O. Howell weaves a ramble on the sacred island of Iona with a meditation on the geometrical forms we encounter everyday. With the meditating help of Sophia, the divine feminine principle of wisdom, she shows how we can decode the inner meaning of shapes, numbers, and other symbols through intuition, to enrich our experience of living and deepen our appreciation of the mystery of form.
Anne Baring
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed – be it ecological, social, demographic, or a general breakdown of civilization will be unavoidable.
— Vávlav Havel, address to US Congress
To reclaim the sacred nature of the cosmos – and of planet Earth in particular – is one of the outstanding spiritual challenges of our time.
— Diarmuid O’Murchu, Quantum Theology
The Dream of the Cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to re-connect with a deeper reality than the one we inhabit in this physical dimension of experience. It is written for those who are looking for something beyond the superficial values of our culture, who may be disillusioned with religious and secular belief systems as currently presented and who question the political values which are deeply mired in the pursuit of power. It is written with two voices: one the voice of a personal quest and the other which explores the historical and psychological causes that have brought into being our present view of reality. (Full preface)
For more information and to download this book, please visit: www.annebaring.com
Hilary Hart
(Paperback - forthcoming April, 2013)
A chakra in our breasts that emits spiritual nouishment into life... a secret substance inour bodies to heal the earth... a direct connection from our wombs to the creative center of the universe...
In Body of Wisdom, Hilary Hart identifies nine hidden powers alive in women's bodies and instincts, waiting to be used in contemporary challenges such as the creation of community, healing of the earth, and th erestoration of life's spiritual nature. Based on interviews with the world's most visionary spiritual teachers and women's dreams and experiences, Body of Wisdom ushers in a new spirituality in which the body and the shared body of the earth are known as a seat of mystical power and women take responsibility for spiritual work that only they can do.
With: Dorothy Atalla, Elizabeth Frediani, Sandra Ingerman, Larry Merculieff, Sobonfu Somé, Guan-Cheng Sun, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, and Pamela Wilson.
For more information, visit: www.hilaryhart.org
(Paperback - March 1, 2003)
"For serious students of mystical traditions and women's spirituality, this challenging book offers rewards not found in more conventional works."
—Publisher's Weekly
"A profound exploration of what may beome the most important development in the 21st Century: the return of the feminine voice in spiritual experience."
—Tsultrim Allione, author, Women of Wisdom
The Unknown She: Eight Faces of an Emerging Consciousness is a dynamic exploration of feminine wisdom and power in our collective evolution. Author Hilary Hart traveled around the world meeting eight mystics from a variety of traditions to uncover the feminine aspect of mystical experience and ways we can live this awareness for the sake of the whole.
For more information, visit: www.hilaryhart.org
Teachings on the Feminine
and the World Soul
