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~ Jean Shinoda Bolen (Author) "A personal perspective on un the Tao of Eastern religion..." (more)
Key Phrases: synchronistic meeting, synchronistic events, path with heart, San Francisco, Agatha Christie, Don Juan (more...)
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The Tao of Psychology is the most useful integration of Eastern religion and Western psychology since Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching and The Secret of the Golden Flower. -- George Wilson, M.D., Northern California, Psychiatric Society Newsletter

Charming and interesting....The Tao of Psychology may dispel the sense of alienation and loneliness and pull the reader to believe there is indeed a linkage between us all. -- Walter E. Barton, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Dartmouth Medical School; Past President, American Psychiatric Association

Dr. Bolen makes the dynamics of Tao and synchronicity come alive. The Tao of Psychology expands horizons for psychotherapy no less than quantum physics does for physicists." -- Joseph B. Wheelwright, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus, University of California School of Medicine; Past President, International Association for Analytic Psychology

Scholarly....fascinating. -- OMNI

The Tao of Psychology is a small but real gem. In clear and persuasive language, it attempts to synthesize several of the main strands of non-rational phenomena -- the occult, religious mysticism, parapsychology, to name a few -- and integrate them with popular psychology and Jungian theory in arguing a connection between the inner and outer worlds, between the visible and invisible. -- Minneapolis Tribune

This slender book blends persona, insight and experience, sensitive scholarship and graceful writing. Its transcendent vision is articulated most clearly in the last chapter, "The Message of the Tao Experience: We are Not Alone." -- Marilyn Ferguson, editor, Brain/Mind Bulletin, author, The Aquarian Conspiracy


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Shows how synchronicity (the phenomenon of meaningful coincidences) occurs in and enriches ordinary life; provides the key for each individual to interpret the synchronistic events in his or her life; and gives fresh insight into those relationships, dreams, and flashes of perception that touch and transform our lives.
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; Reprint edition (June 1, 1982)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062500813
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062500816
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #456,305 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Reading this book was a synchronistic experience, August 14, 2002
Jean Shinoda Bolen has a unique approach to psychology, which heals the whole being on a deep level. This book presents a very intriguing view of synchronicity (which I find especially interesting because I am a twin). Her practice of recognizing synchronicity in the therapist/patient relationship seems to facilitate a faster and deeper healing process through the respect that it is the patient who heals him/herself. The therapist works with the patient by tuning into his or her individual path towards healing.

I first discovered Jean's work while reading the book "Memory and Abuse" by Charles Whitfield who quotes Jean extensively in his book. I went on further to explore her writing in the book "Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, The Authoritarian Father, and The Disempowered Feminine: A Jungian understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle", "Goddesses in Every Woman", and "Crossing to Avalon". She has also written "Gods In Every Man" and many other interesting books.

In reading this book I have gained a more thorough understanding of how our aversions and attractions to people are often based on identification with an archetype (stemming from the collective unconscious). Her explanation of this is very interesting. I especially enjoyed the last two chapters: "The Tao as Path with Heart" and "The Message of the Tao Experience: We Are Not Alone". In my own personal healing from abuse I have understood on the deepest level that we are all connected, and that healing oneself is healing a part of the world.

I like the message in this book that certain things happen to us over and over because it is furthering our growth, not because it is punishment. My understanding of the world and what lies beyond is a very personal understanding that often cannot be portrayed through words. There is an interconnection of psychology, synchronicity, spiritual understanding, biology and physics. In psychology I prefer Jungian or Buddhist to other western models.

Since childhood I have experienced a sense of peace and oneness with the universe and myself. I experience this knowing as a humming in my being. When I feel disconnected or off-kilter I hum to the rhythms of my true nature to bring me back to wholeness. It was a pleasant surprise when I reached the end of chapter 8 in "The Tao of Psychology", and read a beautifully articulated metaphorical description of a similar experience.

In reading the last two chapters of this book two things came strongly to mind: poems by the Sufi poet, Hafiz and the movie "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" by Franco Zeffirelli.

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quantum Physics Meets Eastern Philosophy, August 23, 1998
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Quantum physics has defined a basic unit of matter that makes up all things, both organic and inorganic, which is pure energy. The same unit of energy that is a part of your body today may, only days before, have been a part of a bird flying over Beijing or an Ethiopian villager. This "new" knowledge from modern physics sounds very much like the Tao--in Eastern phillosophies, the "unifying principle in the universe to which everything in the world relates." The tao (lowercase) is the life path that is in harmony with the universe, the "path with heart." Jung believed that all people and all animate and inanimate objects are linked through a collective unconscious. Synchronicity, he said, was a connecting principle that manifests through "meaningful coincidences." Bolen proposes that synchronicity is the Tao of psychology; it relates the individual to the totality. She makes good use of anecdotes to explain Jung's layers of consciousness, the Jungian analytical tools of amplification and active imagination, and the difference between causality and synchronicity. Bolen has a gift for making clear Jungian concepts that seem obtuse or hazy in the hands of other writers.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE, January 12, 2001
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Just as synchronicity brings meaningful events together, this book unites some very meaningful topics: coincidences, psychology, Jung, Taoism and the I Ching. Dr Bolen weaves these phenomena together in a highly readable format. If you've ever believed that there is more to coincidences than meets the eye, then reading this book is perhaps the next meaningful coincidence awaiting your life.
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