Theatre of the Imagination: Volume Two [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1995

Come to the stage between two worlds - come to the Theatre of the Imagination. On this 12-part, live performance series, bestselling author and beloved cantadora (keeper of the old stories) Clarissa Pinkola Estes shares the work of her lifetime: myths, tales, and poems with the power to nourish and heal. Contained within Theatre of the Imagination are the great universal themes - tales of loss and resurrection, of love and sacrifice, of the courage to survive - yet it is as if Dr. Estes is speaking only to you. With words that weave in and out of the interior and exterior worlds, she creates an amazing fabric of the purest wisdom - fought for, won, and preserved to teach all generations "that which is most worth knowing." You will hear more than 40 original poems, archetypal insights, and dozens of strengthening stories from Dr. Estes' own family oral traditions. Dr. Estes teaches that each story holds a key to a deeper self-knowing. She writes: "Stories cut fine wide doors in previous blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives." Presented in her one-of-a-kind lyrical style, Theatre of the Imagination seats you in the front row at these performances of a lifetime.

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

With words that weave in and out of the interior and exterior worlds, Dr. Estes creates an amazing fabric of the purest wisdom--fought for, won and preserved to teach all generations. Listeners will hear over 40 original poems, archetypal insights, and dozens of strengthening stories from Dr. Estes's own family oral traditions.

About the Author

Clarissa Pinkola Estes was born in Indiana in 1943 to parents of Spanish and Mexican ancestry, but was later adopted by Hungarian immigrants. She received her Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was certified as a Jungian analyst in 1984. She worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice and developed and taught the Writing as Liberation of the Spirit program in state and federal prisons. Estes served as executive director of the C.G. Jung Center for Education and Research and cofounded and codirected Colorado Authors for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights. One of Estes's better-known writings, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (1992), is drawn from tales and myths she heard firsthand from members of such cultures as Asian, Mexican, African, and Greek. She also wrote The Gift of Story (1993). Her books can be found indexed under Psychology, Women's Studies, Mythology, Spiritual Development, and Poetry.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (September 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564553523
• ISBN-13: 978-1564553522
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,606,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Necessity of Hearing Clarissa Pinkola Estes, August 13, 2000

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cynthia johnson (eaton rapids, michigan United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Theatre of the Imagination, Vol. 1 (Audio Cassette)

If you wish to know yourself, to reach into the depths of your pysche, your past, present and future: you must read or hear this product. Every woman will find themselves and the ability to put together the puzzle pieces of their own soul in these pages. Estes, in spoken word is delightful, witty, expressing her soul findings in every spoken word and thought of wisdom carried through to the very end on the whispers of her knowledgeable breath. To read her stories, a wondrous discovery, to hear them, a revelation in poetry, to understand fully; you will experience the desire to hear them again and again, and to pass the stories on to friends, lovers, children and acquaintances. I paid my three daughters $50 apiece to read this book, I would pay a million times that to hear it for myself and gain the knowledge and understanding of me I have received from Clarissa. This book, these tapes, are my saviour and I listen to them over and over again. Each listening brings new understanding and capabilities to live on, write, read and act with full knowledge and intent to live forever, as a true wild woman, healthy, vibrant and fully alive.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE HIGHLIGHTS, July 15, 2006

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Jezzie (reno, nevada USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Theatre of the Imagination, Vol. 1 (Audio Cassette)

I thought it might be helpful to write what it says on the back of album in "highlights", because that's what w'd be reading if we were looking at it in a store-Thee are 2 volumes of this amazing work-VOLUME ONE includes "TAPE ONE, Godmother Death- The cycles of life & death, Our mother tongue, The language of symbols, Images of the moon landing, Aesculapius, Aztec Goddess Txati,Symbolic 13-TAPE TWO; Lost Mother Moon-Longing to return to the home withn, Healig the homesickness of the soul, Nostalgia, Wounds & the violet light, Rose Tree story-TAPE THREE; Vasalisa & the Baba Yaga-On intuition, Claiming your strengh, The meaning of blessing, Repairing the world-TAPE FOUR;Bluebeard & the Forbidden Key-Waking the 1,000 eyes of intuition,How to stop the destructive inner critic, Naivete' & predator in the psyche, The Initiate Story-TAPE FIVE;The Ugly Duckling-On the gifted child, Hephaestus & the 12 women made of silver & gold, Finding where you really belong,The 10th father, Active imagination-TAPE SIX;The Joyous Body-La Mariposa-The Butterfly Woman-The female body of God, Reclaiming the bodies we were born with, Sappho's poetry constructed, Negative shadow, Old Big Mother, poem, Procrustes' bed"-There was much more listed, but I couldn't copy all of it here-I hope this helps give you a taste of the content

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!!, April 20, 2003

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Reeva's Mom "msreeva" (Louisiana USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Theatre of the Imagination: Volume Two (Audio Cassette)

You won't be sorry if you get these. Every story a woman ever needed to hear is there. You will be swept up by the warm, rich quality of Dr. Estes' voice. Her analysis of the stories clean the windows of your mind and give you fresh tools to unlock gates and open the windows to your soul.