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As a medical intuitive, Myss has found that people often don’t understand their purpose in life, which has led to a spiritual malaise of epidemic proportions. This metaphysical disease in turn leads to depression, anxiety, fatigue, and eventually physical illness.
But our purpose—our individual Sacred Contract—is often difficult to apprehend. For this reason, Myss developed an enjoyable and ingenious process for deciphering your own Contract using a new theory of archetypes that builds on the works of Jung, Plato, and contemporary thinkers. She first recounts how the concept of Sacred Contracts took form in myths and other cultural traditions through the ages. She then examines the lives of the spiritual masters and prophets—Abraham, Jesus, the Buddha, and Muhammad—whose archetypal journeys illustrate the four stages of a Sacred Contract and provide clues for discovering your own.
With her signature motivational style and stories, Myss explains how you can identify your particular spiritual energies, or archetypes—the gatekeepers of your higher purpose—and use them to help you find out what you are here on earth to learn and whom you are meant to meet. In coming to know your archetypal companions, you also begin to see how to live your life in ways that make the best use of your personal power and lead you to fulfill your greatest—in fact, your divine—potential.
In this process, you learn how to see your life—and the lives of others—symbolically, allowing you to manage your personal power without getting caught up in emotional drama. You will also learn how to fulfill your Sacred Contract: what you and only you are here on earth to do. Finally, Myss offers specific guidance for locating your physical and emotional vulnerabilities and healing any susceptible areas.
Both visionary and practical, Sacred Contracts is a completely unique process of self-discovery and spiritual archaeology and a bold, powerful work of spiritual wisdom.
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- ISBN: 9781400046867
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- File size: 8981 KB
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- English
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December 3, 2001
As incongruous as it may seem at first glance to her legions of fans, Myss, a popular intuitive healer and teacher, and the bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit, thinks it makes perfect sense to describe her approach to spirituality as that of an archetypal "Saboteur." After all, it takes a thief to catch a thief, she explains in her latest work. In her workshops and readings, she goes "on a search and destroy mission to find my students' spiritual panic.... Deep in the unconscious, our spiritual potential lies in wait for us to release it. Sometimes you will have to blow things out of your own way to get to it." Here, Myss offers her readers a new system for blowing away pedestrian notions of their purpose on the planet. She espouses the ancient notion that our souls enter into a kind of contract before birth—that we agree to have various human experiences and even (in Myss's version) to encounter certain people in order to learn lessons. The author includes a technique for arriving at 12 archetypes that rule different areas of our life—from career to sex to our highest aspirations. While each of us is controlled in different ways by four "survival" archetypes—Child, Victim, Prostitute, Saboteur—the other archetypes that flavor our relations to the world are up to us and as richly different as Vampire and Messiah. One value of Myss's ingenious system is that, like the I Ching, it teaches readers to use symbols not as one-dimensional descriptions but as a call to reflection and imagination and a means to see ourselves in a greater light. 18-city author tour. -
August 1, 2001
After the best-selling Anatomy of the Spirit: effecting "sacred contacts" among souls.Copyright 2001 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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January 1, 2002
In this follow-up to her best-selling Anatomy of the Spirit, Myss augments her work with energy chakras and thoughtfully explores the concept of symbolic archetypes (primordial governing forces of the soul) and the role they play in discovering one's true life purpose. Understanding the specific archetypal energy patterns of the self, Myss holds, contributes significantly to a person's spiritual health and planetary mission (or "sacred contract"). The author outlines the stages of a sacred contract, makes a practical comparison to an earthly (legal) contract, and ponders the use of dreams and intuition. Making this book unique are relevant exercises that can be used alone or with a chakras map and a wheel of archetypes to create working charts for everyday guidance. Although discussion of this wheel is a bit heady, a descriptive appendix of archetypes proves useful for the spiritual self-examination that Myss advocates. Reaching beyond verbal psychotherapy, this book is a sound choice for its validation of the primal energy work that must be done to transform the soul. For psychology/self-help collections of public and academic libraries. Lisa Liquori, MLS, Syracuse, NYCopyright 2001 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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