An ancient Daoist saying tells us "When you are sick, do not seek a cure. Find your centre and you will be healed." The centre it refers to is located deep in the sensed interiority of our belly, that abode of the soul known in Japanese as hara. 'Depression' (a word with no equivalent in Japanese) is, in essence, a lack of hara. With hara awareness we not only recontact our own innermost soul depths and soul centre. We learn to make contact with others from that centre - to experience true intimacy of soul. Hara awareness is both an alternative to medical and psychiatric 'cures' and the basis for a genuinely psychological medicine - an anatomy of the soul-body. Head, Heart and Hara contrasts the head- and heart-centred culture of the West with the hara culture of Japan. It also shows how hara awareness can unite the primordial wisdom of both East and West. Peter Wilberg brings together the dao of Lao Tse and the logos of Heraclitus in a new spiritual anatomy of the soul and its body.
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A 'Center' in Aware Emobodiment,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Head, Heart & Hara: The Soul Centers Of West And East (Paperback)
So, this review is a long time coming. I have read and re-read this book. I pour myself over it's pages, only to re-collect my reading, and want to re-view it yet again. Here in lies the most sophisticated response to trends in the new age, in humanistic psychology and philosophy, to the many variations on eastern meditation practices and the many appropriations by modern westernized social sub-cultures, of generations old, methods and theories of eastern philosophical progress. I have not come across such a well researched, and articulated, method for the realization of the primacy of awareness, over soul, spirit, matter, energy, etc. Though to be fair, I myself have been following the path to the observations made by the author through numerous authors, and techniques, for almost a decade, never quite making sense of what I'm listening for.
The Hara is no "energy center" it is the 'center' of Being, and as such, is the extension point of Awareness of Non-Being. This is grasped through identification with the Field-Dynamic Aware Center of Being, within the subjective space experienced as the abdominal space, termed tanden or hara in traditional Japanese culture. The ease with which what this implies is communicated, has peaked a great amount of personal interest in the corpus of Mr. Wilberg, and in Mr. Wilberg himself. I look forward to posting more reviews of other works of his.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn more)
qualitative inner space, resonant inner connection, resonant soul, resonant inner contact, central coordinate point, inward infinitude, own felt body, umbilical contact, listening imagination, qualitative space, listening contact, heart and hara, spiritual substantiality, hara centre, ego skin, hara breathing, own inwardly, soul resonance, value fulfilment, linguistic imagination, sensory skin, inner bearing, self skin, inner human being, inward listening Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Japanese, New Age Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
qualitative inner space, resonant inner connection, resonant soul, resonant inner contact, central coordinate point, inward infinitude, own felt body, umbilical contact, listening imagination, qualitative space, listening contact, heart and hara, spiritual substantiality, hara centre, ego skin, hara breathing, own inwardly, soul resonance, value fulfilment, linguistic imagination, sensory skin, inner bearing, self skin, inner human being, inward listening Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Japanese, New Age Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
