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The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts) Paperback – February, 1988

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When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense of the word (one-in-herself), a person of deep integrity whose welcome for the stranger was radiant, self-confident and sensuous. Her purpose was to bring the goddess' love into direct contact with mankind. In antiquity, human sexuality and the religious attitude were inseparable. The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect Of The Feminine is solidly based on Jungian psychological principles and powerfully illustrates how our vitality and capacity for joy depend on restoring the soul of the sacred prostitute to its rightful place in our conscious understanding. The Sacred Prostitute is engaging reading that provides a great deal of thoughtful observations on the nature of human sexuality and its relationship to the well-balanced personality and the health and stability of human society. -- Midwest Book Review
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Product Details

  • Series: Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts (Book 32)
  • Paperback: 171 pages
  • Publisher: Inner City Books (February 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0919123317
  • ISBN-13: 978-0919123311
  • Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 6 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
from ancient history to modern psychotherapy
By Magdalene Meretrix on March 14, 2002
Format: Paperback
Dr. Qualls-Corbett claims that modern people are wounded by our separation of sexuality from spirituality and suggests that the study of the ancient sacred prostitutes and sexually oriented temple priestesses will assist in a conscious "union of opposites," restoring sexuality to its rightful place in spiritual and religious thought. While her alchemical view of sexuality is firmly grounded in Jungian thought, Dr. Qualls-Corbett often uses sources that are somewhat less than reputable for her historical information. In many places where Dr. Qualls-Corbett is more accurate in her history, she often provides rather unorthodox interpretations of historical items, places or writings. When viewed from a Jungian perspective rather than a historical sense, however, Qualls-Corbett's interpretations are mythically sound. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to explore notions of sexuality from a stance that empowers both women and men as well as anyone who is considering developing ritual work in a sexual vein, especially rites of initiatory sexuality.
The book is divided into five major sections:
* "The Goddess and her Virgin: Historical Background" examines evidence of the sacred prostitute in the ancient world. Though the history here is often shaky, this section still contains much of value if one chooses to read critically.
* "The Psychological Significance of Sacred Prostitution" examines the archetypes of the Goddess, the Sacred Prostitute, the Stranger who visits her, and the "Heiros Gamos" or Sacred Marriage.
* "The Sacred Prostitute in Masculine Psychology" examines the male view of woman, anima and sexuality. Dr.Read more ›
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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Transcending ideologies
By Minsma on August 17, 2000
Format: Paperback
In every heart, both male and female, there is an eternal and immutable touchstone of joy. All too often that joy is lost in contemporary society, through harsh experience, or in the rush towards simplistic ideologies like "men bad, women good" (or the opposite). Nancy Qualls-Corbett attempts to show both men and women how to transcend the narrowly-defined sex roles and oppressions that have been imposed on them from childhood and to rediscover that touchstone of joy. She succeeds admirably, I think. The Sacred Prostitue is not about selling our bodies or the prostitution of pleasing and serving others to our own detriment. Rather, it is the antidote to these kinds of self-destructive behaviors. As we learn to express the source of joy in ourselves, to glorify it despite what we have been taught or bad experiences or what society may say, we liberate our lives. We transcend the old boundaries and grow. I am not talking about joy in a strictly sexual or sensual way here, and neither is Nancy Qualls-Corbett. The prostitute is a metaphor for the kind of healing that happens when we give ourselves over totally to love and the possibility of allowing joy to happen in our lives. First, we must learn to love and please ourselves, then we can learn to love and please others. And that is the true sacredness.
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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Taking the profane edge off of sexuality
By K. J. Reynolds on November 22, 1999
Format: Paperback
Our Western culture has evolved to a point of sad and profane sexual disconnection. How can a woman who is devoted to serving Goddess or God be a sexual being in a culture without being a whore? How can a whore be anything other than profane? This book answers these questions and gives hope and validates my already held belief: We are given the joy of sexual union for something other than procreation. A must read for the 21st century feminist and also for the new evolving integrated man.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
It will change how you view your dreams!
By A Customer on December 7, 1999
Format: Paperback
This book opened my eyes and helped me to understand myself on another level. It also helped me to understand my husband and his dreams. I gained a deeper level of compassion for him. Now when I listen to his dreams I learn more about who he really is and how he interprets the world.
As I read The Sacred Prostitute I remember having a feeling of "Oh, I get it!" but couldn't stop reading to re-read the passage. I felt I had de-ja-vu only deeper.
Not only has this book helped me to gain insight into myself and my relationships, but it has also helped me to see how sex, sexuality and sex in dreams is not negative like some religions lead you to believe. I feel less inhibited in sharing my dreams and all the details as well as my inner thoughts. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding themselves with a new perspective!
I will never see my dreams the same!
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Sexual Healers
By Dan E. Nicholas on July 15, 2011
Format: Paperback
This book has been out now for over 20 years but I'd still recommend it, as I've referenced it often. I read this alongside the Kenneth Ray Stubbs work Women of the Light-The New Sexual Healers a decade back when I was exploring massage and yoga and Tantra for the first time. The concept of including rather than excluding the body in the business of healing and union with the Divine was a bit new to me then.

Like many, I was crawling back from the dung heap of death in a lifeless, loveless back marriage then, starting over. As a pastor and priest, a former Protestant Evangelical and now sacramental, high church/old church convert to Eastern Christianity, I was intrigued with the Qualls-Corbett notion of not only the body being holy but the roll of the divine feminine and her leadership and priestly place in this yin-yang male-female processional road back. At the same time I kept coming across this Divine Eros theme among traditional Christian monastics old and new in the church. Indeed, from the extreme surrender of Eros Maniakos in Maximus the Confessor forward (including to the modern saint of love, Elder Porphyrios who was kind to prostitutes--see Wounded By Love) , many Christian ascetic and writers spoke about union with God in terms not dissimilar with some new age constructs.

I was also fascinated with Qualls-Corbett's work in presenting the historical juxtaposition of the holy and profane, of prostitution and the high priestess who served in sacred temples. Some of these were the same women who availed themselves as mentors to take the hands of young and newly pubescent men--sons--brought to temple by their mothers to be initiated into the erotic arts and sciences in the way of love. From boys to men indeed.Read more ›
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sex is bad, and religion is good

Incredible reading as I research forming a sex-positive church. It's all about how our modern culture has placed sexuality and religion on opposing sides - i.e. Read more

Published 10 days ago by Kendra Holliday
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Amazing book

I love this book. It provides scientific knowledge on the subject of sacred prostitution and offers an other view on this topic. Read more

Published on February 18, 2012 by Krista
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The author covers the history of the sacred prostitute and then does a Jungian analysis of the archetype of the sacred prostitute in the collective consciousness. Read more

Published on August 20, 2010 by southpaw68
Reigniting the Feminine

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Published on January 5, 2010 by Steve Gronert Ellerhoff
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Published on April 30, 2009 by JJ
fair and honest appraisal of the sacred prostitute

though very jungian, therefore fixated on the archetype, it did really well looking at the place of the sacred prostitute in past cultures, did not place judgement on those... Read more

Published on March 21, 2007 by S. Kidman Jr.

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